Five Heartland Lodge Activities to Take to Heart
Be it upland birds, waterfowl or even trophy whitetail deer, there are certainly a lot of ways you can immerse yourself in world-class hunting...
Harpole’s Heartland Lodge Media
Walk-up Upland Hunting and More at Harpole's Heartland Lodge
For classic Midwestern wingshooting, you can't get more authentic than Heartland Lodge in Nebo, Illinois.
The Seasons of Heartland
In certain parts of the country the length of the hunting season can be impossibly brief. Most New England upland lodges, for example, have...
This Tried-and-True Lodge Takes You Back to the Good Ol’ Days
Wingshooters who long for “the way things used to be” need look no further than Harpole’s Heartland Lodge, in Illinois.
Heartland Lodge’s Combo Hunts
Gary Harpole, of Harpole’s Heartland Lodge, in Nebo, Illinois, has been a huge proponent of combo hunts for years and has weaved so many two-in-one options into his hunting program that he has become a “Combo King” of sorts.
Harpole's Heartland Lodge FAQs
Join Shooting Sportsman's Endorsed Lodge Program for a Q&A session with Heartland Lodge owner Gary Harpole that walks us through one of the best upland/waterfowl...
Behind the scenes at Heartland Lodge
The Shooting Sportsman Endorsed Lodge program continues its “behind the scenes” series with Harpole’s Heartland Lodge, in west-central Illinois. Lodge owner Gary Harpole offered...
The Making of Heartland Quail
The one final—and very personal—thing missing from Harpole's Heartland Lodge.
In the Heartland Tradition
Who doesn’t yearn for the good old days? Those simpler times when life was less hectic and people were actually nice to one another....
Driven in the Heartland
Pheasants over the Guns at Heartland Lodge
The Hunter's Heartland
For me, though, the essence of Heartland Lodge was captured in the final image of our last day’s hunt, a perfect blue-sky December day spent in the field with guide Terry Abney: the sudden blaze of sunset on a cackling rooster’s wings, the gun’s thump against my shoulder, and out there beyond the dogs, right where the hillside falls away, the sight of golden feathers bursting like a firecracker and the big bird tumbling, tumbling down.