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Iowa's best big-buck TIP

By Lynn Burkhead
ESPNOutdoors.com associate editor — Oct. 13, 2003

Monday, October 13, 2003

It's the perfect recipe to grow gargantuan bucks. Start with superior genetics, throw in a good supply of protein-rich food, reduce hunting pressure and allow whitetail bucks to grow to be a ripe old age. Combine those ingredients in the state of Iowa, and you've got the makings for a world-class big buck factory. That includes the Sept. 29 muzzleloader harvest of the widely photographed "walking world record" whitetail near Albia, Iowa, by 15-year old shooter Tony Lovstuen. “ ...

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