After 5yrs me and my best friend got our zone 6 Iowa tags. We drew with 4points, last time it took 3. We have a friend that lives up there and we will be hunting with him on properties he has lined up for us. We go somewhere in the Midwest (usually Missouri) every year and we try to target our dates somewhere 4 or 5 days either side of Nov 7. This year the plan was/is going to be Nov 5-12ish. We have had both good and bad luck with these dates over the years. It's been 15 and snowing one year and dang near 80 and sweating the next. Unfortunately, there looks to be a conflict on the horizon with the Nov 5-12 week. We are now looking at possibly switching dates to Nov 12-19ish. Not set in stone, but a high chance of changing...... My question to you guys that travel and hunt every year is this. What are your thoughts on those two sets of dates? Then if you could only choose one week to bow hunt the Midwest, what would you choose? We really like Nov 7ish timeline, and it is obviously our first choice, but....... We will be going either way just gotta figure out exactly when. What do you guys think? When do you like to be in a tree up there?