Iowa resident. The southern part of the state is what's famous for big bucks, if also has the least amount of good solid public land. If you want to hunt there I'd so some scouting trips the spring before you hope to draw and knock on some doors. I've known plenty of guys to get on for archery...
I've been bouncing between the budget Cabela's set or going the "buy once cry once" route for my first CO archery hunt as well. I've spent most of my life in cheap frogg toggs so anything would feel like an upgrade to me. I'll be following this thread closely!
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Find the right resource to set up your ambush on and just learn to sit patiently and wait. Play the wind, for example if you're sitting a white oak that's dropping acorns. Find the nastiest thickest piece of bush in the area, that's probably a deer bed, be down wind of that and the acron tree...
I live in Iowa, I wear the attack pant a lot as well as my Carhartt brush pants. To be honest it doesn't matter much as long as they can stand up to bark, brush, and briars. For the bottom half of my body I go all year, Sept-Jan, with a 3-piece system of heavyweight merino long johns, attack...
I've been doing the same thing with my Stryker and a 55L Earthpak dry sack. The Earthpak comes with some straps on it that I just cut off and it works pretty well. I've used it for a couple camping trips here in the Midwest and it works really well even though the bag does stick out pretty far...