Hunting Deer in Kansas & Iowa with Randy Newberg (OYOA S1 E9) 

As an Iowa resident I would recommend Yellow River state park in Alamakee county. It's directly across the Mississippi river from Buffalo county Wisconsin. 9000 acres. Great trail systems throughout for access too. Very rough country. Lots of spots where us corn fed Iowans just won't walk too. Huge bucks great deer numbers. We kill deer there every year. Also use your points to get an Archery tag. The first week of November is magical. After about November 11th your buck sightings go way way down unless you have a private deer farm. If you hunt that first week of November. you have a better then 50 percent chance of getting a really nice buck. Even on public.

This is great! THank you for showing the "failures". You did it!!!

At 6:30 when you get up on that pile of brush and it falls, I had to laugh hard because I've been there so many times! What an entertaining video.

Welcome to Kansas public Deer hunting...I have found its Bucks in the morning and Does last 20min of evening. Good meat hunting land...big bucks are, well hard to outsmart on public land, somehow they know where public land starts probably the pressure. And then theirs always the guy like you/me who's done Thier homework and setup just before you. l generally walk in about 4 in the morning and sit and Waite for the deer to pushed and be sitting by at least two hours before sunset to hopefully stake out my spot. Unfortunately theirs too many hunters who show no regard to you were Thier first, but that's public land you just have to use other hunters to your advantage....love your shows and have learned plenty....thank you

welcome to public land hunting!i have had to hunt it my whole life!no high fence,no bait,no big crop feilds,just other hunters!

thank you big fin for posting these fine show. ill make sure to pay you back thank you

Randy, first off, I'm a big fan of the show, and love what you do. I'm a native Iowan and a Kansas resident. I too have hunted public ground during 2nd shotgun in Iowa. It's tough. There are bucks, and some big ones, but like your experience in this show, the encounters are fleeting. I would suggest anyone who wants to hunt public for Iowa deer to wait the extra year for an archery season tag and hunt during the rut in early November. During that time you'll get bucks moving through that normally don't use the public property, even though hunting pressure will still be high. That being said, I know your fall schedule is packed and you hunt when you can, just like everyone else. Good luck out there!

Man, I would LOVE to hunt and shoot whitetail but I never have I hope too later in my life.

Great video. Same feeling I get trying to find big bucks in WV

"Enjoyed every single minute of it". I doubt it. Hahahahaha

Very few Deer on public lands... if they are there, look for the thickest stuff on the property. Really helps to have a buddy walking around pushing those brushy spots. Plus the deer know better than to move during the day...

Randy the problem with late season white tail bucks is bedding during the day , mind if I make a suggestion find a place and make a b line to it near the thickest and nastiest brush and use the ground cover as a blind .

Lol just like hunting for a buck in pa! Especially since they started the antler restrictions. Lots of doe and a few bucks that are two small. Your doing great to get a legal buck once every several years. It's a real challenge even on private land

What I have learned is the more you move around the more it pushes the deer not every day do I see trophy Buck's but I have seen some nice ones , best of luck on any new adventures.

I grew up in eastern Iowa. I never even saw a Deer until I was 16. As an adult I hunted south central Kansas a couple of times. No Deer were harmed by me

Word to the wise... Iowa is northeast of Kansas, not northwest (around 10:40 mark). Great show! I've been trying KS public hunting for a while now, it sucks to not get a buck, but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that gets skunked :)

I hunt public lands frequently in Texas and have been for 25 plus years 80 plus percent kill ratio by the book rifle and black powder .

Come hunt the Mississippi river bluffs in North East Iowa lots of public land and great whitetails.

The hundred shots he heard are group hunters they fill each other’s tags

Randy, you ought to come to Maryland and do a public land sika deer hunt. Super fun animals to hunt if you ever get the chance.

If come back to iowa for gun season. Now we can use 350 to 50 cal rifles. So you could get howa to start making 35 whelen

And stay put .

I live in Iowa want to know whats funny? i dont even deer hunt. There are some really big ones though. I found a 186 in rack and have pictures to prove it. We go out west to hunt elk and everyone out there talks about hunting big whitetail deer in the midwest. Kind of one of those grass is always greener on the other side type of deals.

Honestly 2nd season shotgun is one of the worst to be hunting that way. I did it last year and all I saw was orange pushing deer onto private property. Saw a few deer but, thats it unfortunately

Hunters left at lunch and while they’re gone, I killed a buck. NEVER leave until the day is disappearing. All I bring for food is granola bars. That’s all I need and I hunt in the mountains. The number one hunt killer is not going with the gut feeling and second is moving too fast. If you throw your plans out the window and follow that gut, you’ll do much better.

Where about you from in northern Minnesota?

where did you grow up?

When your hunting deer , do you prefer the wind to be in your face ?

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I have a few secrets but it's mostly right in front of you , stealthy approach and cover scents fresh Earth.

Running around looking is not the way to hunt Midwest deer. Find a good travel route or food source & set your ass down. It's a waiting game

This is depressing

This narrator is so weird

This is the part Disney educated keyboard jockeys will never know. Sad.

As an Iowa resident I would recommend Yellow River state park in Alamakee county. It's directly across the Mississippi river from Buffalo county Wisconsin. 9000 acres. Great trail systems throughout for access too. Very rough country. Lots of spots where us corn fed Iowans just won't walk too. Huge bucks great deer numbers. We kill deer there every year. Also use your points to get an Archery tag. The first week of November is magical. After about November 11th your buck sightings go way way down unless you have a private deer farm. If you hunt that first week of November. you have a better then 50 percent chance of getting a really nice buck. Even on public.