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Firearms :: Re: Washburn or surrounding area

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:29:09 -0500

Quote by: easchmitz

Does anyone know if any shooting places are open or if they are flooded out. Looking to head that way this afternoon just didn't know if there was anywhere to go.

Thanks in advance.

I would suggest a quick call to the Black Hawk County Conservation Board today and ask.

(319) 433-7275

e-mail: conservation@co.black-hawk.ia.us

General Fishing Forum :: Re: You Ate What?!?

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:26:10 -0500

By: speng5

Quote by: jbruegge

the rain/ water levels cooperate.

That was my concern too. We'll wait and see i guess, I haven't heard/checked how much rain is supposed to come, only heard it may rain. Hopefully it holds off for at least a while!

Firearms :: Re: When will you start buying ammo again ?

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:18:33 -0500

By: camaro68cak

Bought 22lr ammo today at one of the big box stores for normal price. it's out there you just need to know where/when to look.

And No I'm not reselling it on the internet. Just buying what i use.

General Fishing Forum :: Re: You Ate What?!?

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:18:14 -0500

By: jbruegge

Yessir, provided I can get enough bait and the rain/ water levels cooperate.

Mushroom Hunting :: Re: Poison Ivy ??

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:12:52 -0500

By: swampy_44

Bleach bath and soak in it. Also when im at work i use the parts cleaner and dab it on with a rag. Break cleaner works well too. Dries the skin quickly.

Deer Hunting :: Re: Trespassers

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:12:13 -0500

By: sms7599

Quote by: Grumpy

Is it your property or an area where you have permission to hunt?

I just have permission to hunt but I do have landowners full support to do whatever it takes to keep people out. I'm not going to put anything out to flatten tires. I may post on my signs that I've done it. It's just to scary to think about hurting some kids coming thru. I believe there just one jerk who is upset because he's been going on this land or years unchecked due to the fact the landowner doesn't do anything on this land and everyone assumed it is public.

Upland Game :: Re: Partridge Sighting

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:04:48 -0500

By: Peterson

I take it you mean Huns rather than ruffed grouse?

Either way, I would not scatter feed to expose either bird to predation by raptors.
Let nature take it's course rather than work to set a table.

Walleye Fishing :: Re: Storm Lake

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:03:20 -0500

By: Shane123

Quote by: sandman

Ranger: Wind from the south, so hit the north shore with crawlers or small chubs on the bottom and you should slaughter the eyes and cats, good luck! ;)

you got any time off sunday or monday ? gonna come up and wet a couple lines, hoping for some company....

General Fishing Forum :: Re: You Ate What?!?

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:00:34 -0500

By: speng5

Quote by: jbruegge

My one "never again" critter is muskrat. I'm very open to new foods but it sucked.

I have been privileged to try small muskies legally, and they were very good. Very different from pike as well.

I don't mind eating coots, if you use enough onions in the recipe.

Bighead carp is super duper excellent. I'll trade you some bighead meat for gar meat. The bones are big enough they are almost like toothpicks. Very easy to get around/spit out.

As far as sturgeon on the Iowa below IC, that is the first place I ever got them, just a couple hundred yards downriver from the Burlington St dam. Bait of choice was a mini-missouri trawl. ;)

Eelpout/burbot are not related to bowfin/dogfish, however they are both fairly long and slender with a longer dorsal fin and a rounded tail.

I am hitting the burlington dam and the iowa river power dam this evening, so we will see what happens i suppose!

Also, you still heading this way at some point tomorrow?

Firearms :: Re: displaying firearms on social media

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:59:22 -0500

By: llewellinsetter

Quote by: medicdano

Sorry man, but that is just not a good idea.

"Hey looky what I have!!!" Open invitation to thieves if you ask me.....

Number one reason not to, anything else is speculative.

Firearms :: Washburn or surrounding area

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:54:49 -0500

By: easchmitz

Does anyone know if any shooting places are open or if they are flooded out. Looking to head that way this afternoon just didn't know if there was anywhere to go.

Thanks in advance.

General Fishing Forum :: Re: Ways to express the law to non-english speakers??

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:52:57 -0500

By: mskursh

Quote by: edavis0308

Quote by: mskursh

Quote by: edavis0308

This is just a casual observation, but I do feel that fishing regulations are way more lax and enforced less strictly in Iowa than bordering states. I've fished Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, edit - South Dakota, and Oregon for salmon (they mean business) and it just seems like they do a better job policing and enforcing. Is there anything to this? Maybe, maybe not. Like I said, just something I have noticed over the years.

maybe in lake michigan but anywhere else, good luck finding a dnr agent in illinois.

I was going to comment about Illinois maybe being an exception, but the other states, definitely.

their budgets are gone. there is currently 2 officers regularly working rock island county...all of it. mn is thrving though.

Firearms :: Re: When will you start buying ammo again ?

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:52:28 -0500

By: Carpshooter

8O Seen 9MM and 45 auto ammo at Carroll Wally-World yesterday , but no 22 LR ! :cry:

Firearms :: Re: displaying firearms on social media

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:51:44 -0500

By: kenhump

I would consider the possibility that a badly posed photo of oneself displaying a firearm in an 'assertive' posture, might come back to haunt me in a 'Zimmerman' type situation. :?

General Fishing Forum :: Re: Ways to express the law to non-english speakers??

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:51:07 -0500

By: llewellinsetter

There sure a bunch of negative people on this site and unwilling to help do anything that could, just maybe, help out our resources. Sure there are sub context issues involved, but that was not the question. If we can't focus on one issue at a time how can we ever think that ANYTHING will ever get better?

For all those that turned this into a racial issue, you should be ashamed.
For all those that say there are plenty of caucasian people that do the same thing, that's another topic.

This topic was brought up in a considerate way to address a specific issue and most of you have turned it into a hate filled mockery.