Hunting the miles of Iowa's wooded creek bottoms connecting small wood patches while cutting through grain fields makes for the right combination of food and cover in a small area repeated many times over in the general locality for both deer and turkey.
| An aerial of one golden nugget Iowa lease marked by the yellow square and shown with surrounding acreage of adjoining farms. This is the agricultural region responsible for big bodied deer and turkey with strong winter survival making for strong offspring. Land use ranges between 50 and 55% farming. The overall size of the aerial below is 1 1/2+ by 1 1/2+ miles. 
There is much this aerial does and does not show with land use being a trouble point when assessing aerials for hunting value. In the case of this entire picture the majority of the land use is pasture. The west, most of the south, half the east and entire SE corner is all pasture as is the acreage north across the road. Our 160 acre lease however is in row crop most often soybean with the rotation being to corn. The same for the lighter colors to the SW from our lease and some to the NE. While the majority of this Iowa region is typically more row crop than pasture this locality is part of a larger drainage with hills too steep for plow. |
This 160 acre Iowa hunting lease would be for one hunter at a time for both deer and turkey hunting. The turkey flock has reliably occupied this farm for the past several years while trophy deer hunters found eyes on easy and getting on target tough.
This is but one Iowa hunting lease example and representative of the cover to be found. Within this region of the Grand River Watershed there will be more deer and turkey hunt opportunities than most could cover in a couple of seasons.
Down from Michigan and members since 2003 were kind enough to send in their latest success pictures. Thank you gentlemen for sharing your pictures. 
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