Living in Minnesota, Leo Van Beck is only a state line away from the kind of whitetail country hunters daydream about. When November rolls around and the Midwest locks into rut mode, that line might as well be a fuse.
This year, Leo pointed the truck south toward Iowa with his cousin and Dialed crew member, Q, riding shotgun. No outfitters. No private leases. Just a public-land tag and a shared obsession with big, cagey whitetails that grew up dodging pressure.
The plan is simple: find overlooked corners of Iowa’s legendary ag country, slip into creek bottoms and timbered ridges, and grind until a mature buck makes a mistake. Public land doesn’t hand out easy stories, but that’s the point. Anyone can hunt it, and anything can happen on it.
Watch this hunt unfold and let the Hawkeye State write the script…
