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Best Cold Weather Clothing System

  • November 29, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Best Cold Weather Clothing System:
It is starting to get cold here in the end of November. What is your preferred clothing system for cold weather hunting?
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How to Create Permanent Deer Habitat

  • November 29, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Create Permanent Deer Habitat
How can I improve a property in Missouri that has little to no deer cover on it, but with deer on bordering properties?
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Plaques for European Mounts

  • November 27, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Where did you get the plaques that I saw in a video of your trophy room for European Mounts?
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Camping Out for Whitetails

  • November 27, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Camping Out for Whitetails
How has your camping out for whitetails been going? I don't do that here in MT for deer, but I do for elk.
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Culling Whitetail Bucks

  • November 27, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Culling Whitetail Bucks
We have a lot of bucks with poor genetics. What is your opinion on culling bucks?
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When to Sell Hunting Land

  • November 26, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Sell Hunting Land
I bought a farm a few years ago for hunting. The neighborhood isn't as good as I had hoped; would you sell that farm?
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Whether to Fence Food Plots

  • November 26, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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What can we plant in our food plots if the deer wipe them out before the late season? Should we consider fencing?
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Cementum Annuli Aging for Whitetail Deer

  • November 26, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Cementum Annuli Aging
How much experience do you have with cementum analysis for aging deer? Is it accurate?
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When Deer Smell You

  • November 26, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Deer Smells You
If a mature buck winds you, what is their behavior? How long until you can hunt them again, if ever?
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What to do When you Bump Deer

  • November 23, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Bumping Bucks
What do you do when you bump deer on the way to your stand? Do you hunt it anyway?
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How to Hunt Morning Stands

  • November 22, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Morning Stands
Does it make sense to enter a morning stand well after first light to take advantage of thermal breezes?
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Target Buck for 2021

  • November 22, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Target Buck
Do you have a buck picked out to hunt this season? How is the quest going?
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Deer Movement vs Temperature

  • November 22, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Deer Movement vs Temperature
I know that you have said that deer move best on a weather break. If it warms up in November will deer move more?
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Recovering Deer Hit in Hind Leg

  • November 3, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Hind Leg
I hit a deer that I think was back in the hind legs. Only one speck of blood and no sign of the deer. What would you do next?
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How to Hunt Bluff Country Bucks

  • November 3, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Bluff Country Bucks
I hunt an area similar to yours. It just seems the bucks aren't there other than during the rut. How would you conquer this terrain?
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How My Season is Going

  • November 3, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Winke Blogs
Just wondering how your season is going. Starting to ramp up.
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Wearing Elimitrax Booties

  • November 3, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Elimitrax Booties
When do you wear the Elimitrax Booties? Do you still wear rubber boots inside them?
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Help Hunting Biggest Buck to Date

  • October 13, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Hunting Biggest Buck
I am honing in on my best whitetail to date; can you help me come up with a plan to kill him?
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World Record Lovstuen Buck

  • October 13, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Lovstuen Buck
Living and hunting in the Albia area for so long, did you ever have any encounters with the world record Lovstuen Buck?
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Hunting Cold Fronts

  • October 12, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Hunting Cold Fronts
I bought a 90 acre grass field. Bucks don't live there but do move through. Would you hunt this next cold front?
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Bill Winke Consulting Service

  • October 10, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Bill Winke Consulting Service
Would you be willing to trade a hunt in Ohio for some remote consulting work? I will pay for your tag.
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Setting up a TSI Program

  • October 6, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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TSI Program
My father and I just bought 160 acres and we need to create bedding areas. What is the best way: clear cut, hinge cut, hack and squirt?
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Property Line Disputes

  • October 6, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Property Line Disputes
I believe my property line is not fenced correctly. What would you do to make it right?
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Winke Blogs and Videos

  • October 6, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Winke Blogs
Do you plan to post any hunts from this fall or post any blogs as you prepare for the season?
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Rescuing Food Plots

  • October 5, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Rescuing Food Plots
What is your go-to method for rescuing a failed food plot? When is it too late in the fall to rescue a plot?
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Best Week to Hunt 2021

  • October 5, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Best Time to Hunt 2021
I have ten days to hunt Illinois this year. Which days would you choose? What is your take on deer scents?
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Selling Midwest Whitetail

  • October 5, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Selling Midwest Whitetail
Did you sell Midwest Whitetail?
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Land Consulting and Target Bucks

  • October 5, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Land Consulting
Will you be doing any seminars or attending any hunting shows? Have you started the land consulting business? Do you have your target buck picked out yet?
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Ethics of Baiting Whitetails

  • September 3, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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How do you feel about the use of bait and attractants and higher technology of today's trail cameras? Do you think it takes something from the sport?
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Hunting Without a Cameraman

  • August 31, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Hunting Without a Cameraman
Did you hunt any differently last year since you didn't have a cameraman? Have you been able to buy a farm yet?
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Cutting Timber on Hunting Land

  • August 31, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Cutting Timber
Is it best to do your commercial timber harvest before doing your TSI? What about staggering a commercial harvest over more than one year?
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This Current Recreational Land Boom

  • August 31, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Recreational Land Boom
How does this land boom compare with what you saw in the mid-2000s? What do you think the future holds?
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How to Hunt Pressured Properties

  • August 17, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Pressured Deer
I have a property that I hunt that gets gun hunted twice and has moderate bowhunting pressure on the neighboring tracts. How would you hunt this property?
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Hunting Public Land

  • August 10, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Public Hunting Land
Did your brother-in-law get a buck on public ground last year?
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Whether to Spray a Good Looking Clover Plot

  • August 3, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Clover Plot
I bush hogged a clear cut I had planted to clover and some other food plot varieties to remove regrowth of trees. Now it looks so good I don't want to spray it. What would you do?
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Whitetails in Hard Antler in Late July

  • August 3, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Whitetails in Hard Antler
I have a buck on our farm in Minnesota that is already in hard antler. What are your thoughts on this?
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Best Way to Plant Brassicas

  • July 23, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Plant Brassicas
I am planting a few small brassica food plots in August. What is the best way to do that? I have access to all the equipment I need, or should I just broadcast the seed?
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Year Around Food Plots

  • July 14, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Since leaving Midwest Whitetail, are there some products you were not able to use that you are now looking forward to trying? What would you plant for year-around food plots?
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Stories about my Neighbor Roger Rothhaar

  • June 28, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Roger Rothhaar
I heard that the late Roger Rothhaar was your neighbor before you sold your farm and moved. Any good stories about Roger?
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What to do with Field Edges (Quail Buffer Acres)

  • June 28, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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I have an area that was in Quail Buffer program that is coming available for a new practice. What would you do with those acres?
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Whether I will Film Hunts in 2021

  • June 28, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Film Hunts
I agree memories made while hunting are the most important result. Will you be taking us along on your hunts this fall via video camera?
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Whether Ozonics is Worth the Price

  • June 28, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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I notice on your older hunts that you were often using Ozonics, does it work and is it worth the price?
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Whether I Would Have Sold if there was a Giant Buck on the Farm

  • June 19, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Giant Buck
If a buck like Double G4 had been on your farm would you have still sold it or would you have kept it until you shot the buck?
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The Perfect Deer Management Plan

  • June 13, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Deer Management Plan
Your farm seemed to be unbelievable in 2011. Why do you think it was so good then? Was it just a numbers thing prior to EHD?
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Finding Iowa Public Land Hunting

  • May 31, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Iowa Public Land Hunting
I am trying to find good hunting areas in NE Iowa and have had a hard time finding good public land. What are my chances of getting permission to hunt private land?
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Hunting Bucks during the Rut Lockdown

  • May 27, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Rut Lockdown
I will be hunting Iowa during the week of November 13 - November 20 on public land; how would you hunt during this time?
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Hunting Ridges for Whitetails

  • May 24, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Hunting Ridges
What is your favorite terrain feature for whitetail hunting? Do you ever make mock scrapes in the late summer? If so, what is your process?
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Mowing Corn

  • May 20, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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MowingCorn
Is it considered baiting to mow down standing corn in your food plots in Iowa?
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My Biggest Buck

  • May 11, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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My Biggest Buck
I have been watching your Classic Hunts; is the Double G4 buck the biggest shot on your farm? Is he your biggest buck?
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Places to Hunt in Iowa

  • May 8, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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I should draw an Iowa tag in the next year or two. It is my dream to hunt there. Where would you suggest that I focus on hunting: lease, outfitter or public land?
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Risks of Buying Hunting Land

  • May 8, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Buying Hunting Land
Reading through your land blog series about how you put your farm together; it seems that you took a lot of risks. How did you get your wife to go along with it?
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My Experiences with the RTP Genesis Drill

  • May 5, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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RTP Genesis Drill
I have an RTP Genesis drill. I know you used one on your farm; what was your experience and what did you learn?
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The Story of my Christian Life

  • May 3, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Christian Life
Hunting used to dominate my life until I became a Christian. I know that you are a Christian too, can you tell me something about your story?
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How to Work with Problem Neighbors

  • May 3, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Problem Neighbors
What are some ways to keep fence-sitting neighbors from shooting the deer on my property? Is there a way to funnel the deer away from the fences?
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Hunting along Streams and Rivers

  • April 30, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Hunting Along Streams
I just purchased a home with 13 acres. There is a stream running through it. How do deer relate to streams? Is there a good way to hunt this?
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How to Hunt Ridges

  • April 29, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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I am hunting a similar type of terrain to what you hunted last fall, but it is public land. What movement patterns have you seen in bluff country?
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Small Food Plots are the Key

  • April 29, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Small Food Plots
I am looking at buying a small property for hunting; what would you say is the most important feature it should have?
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Reliable Trail Cameras

  • April 25, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Reliable Trail Cameras
I have had a hard time finding reliable trail cameras. What trail cameras do you recommend?
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Size of a Mature Buck’s Range

  • April 13, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Mature Buck's Range
What is the size of a mature buck's range?
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Managing a Timber Clear Cut

  • March 30, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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We clear cut 5 acres on our Michigan land. What advice do you have for managing a clear cut?
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Past Midwest Whitetail Employees

  • March 28, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Do you still keep in touch with past Midwest Whitetail employees such as the guys that went to start The Hunting Public?
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Liquified Ag Products for Food Plots

  • March 24, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Are liquified ag products effective in your opinion or are they a waste of money?
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Growing Deer Habitat in Open Land

  • March 24, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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I am thinking of buying 90 acres of fairly open land. Is that a good idea? What can I grow there to turn it into a good hunting area?
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Planting Staging Area Food Plots

  • March 23, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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We want to plant a food plot on property we have permission to hunt. It is mostly timber. Our plot will have to be in the middle of the woods; what would you plant?
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Land Ownership and Family Life

  • March 16, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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I am getting ready to start buying hunting land; how did balance hunting land ownership with your family life?
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Where to Place Trail Cameras

  • March 16, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Can you elaborate more about your trail camera strategy, especially the places where you place your cameras?
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Adding Notifications to BillWinke.com Website

  • March 13, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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Will there be a way we can get notified when you update a blog or add a new blog to the site?
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Iowa Public Hunting Areas

  • March 9, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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What are your thoughts on public hunting in Iowa? Any chance you will be writing another book?
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Land Consulting Service and 2020 Season Results

  • March 4, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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2020 Winke Buck
Do you ever do any consulting work? Did you ever find land to buy? How was your 2020 season?
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Trail Camera Survey Method

  • March 4, 2021
  • Bill Winke
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When you were taking inventory of your new hunting spot last fall, did you use the same trail camera regiment as you have in the past?
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