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Hey everyone, I want to start by saying I have been lucky enough to find enough quality hunting in my area of SE Iowa without having to lease. I know leasing is big in some areas, I just hoped it would never get to me. I have a property I love to hunt that is a 20 minute drive for me. I have...

Hey everyone, last year I bought a new Aerobait minnow bucket. I was really looking forward to using it. On my first fishing trip it decided to leave the boat while traveling down the highway. Besides some obvious cosmetic plastic damage to the bucket itself, the power wire from the battery pack...

Iowa resident wanting to bowhunt Illinois Can anyone give me a bit of info here? I'm an Iowa resident that lives on the Mississippi River. I have the chance to bowhunt a couple farms just across the river from me, 5 miles away at the most. I usually drive at least a half hour to get to my...

Hey everyone, I have decided it is time to ditch the old gun cabinet and give my guns a little security. I really have very few guns actually but would just feel better if they were locked up. I do not have a valuable gun collection so it doesn't need to be a $5000 Fort Knox safe either. I'm...

I was just wondering how everybody washes certain items that just don't do well in the washing machine. I use a front loading washer and always use some kind of scent killing detergent. Like my Muddy safety harness. I really don't want to just throw it into the washing machine and have the...

Hey everyone, got a new property to hunt and found a few oaks on a ridge next to a cornfield. I took some pictures and and figured they were all the same type of oak. But they don't quite look the same. The first oak seems to have skinnier and more pointy leaves, while the second tree seems...

Hey everyone, i have wanted an AR-15 for years. Never got around to purchasing one yet. I have been reading a little lately about building your own, and for the most part everyone says it's not that hard. For those that have built thier own, is it easy enough for a mechanically minded person...

I like the new 3 year options they have on license's this year. But i don't understand why they don't have a 3 year hunting/fishing/habitat combo? Looks like it would be around $140. Maybe they think the price would scare people away? Thats definately what i will be needing.

My son wants me to go with him shotgun hunting this morning. He has a tag and i dont. Can i legally go with him just to sit in the blind together? Can i do any driving to him? I'm guessing i need a tag to help him that way?

You try to zoom into a specific area and it takes you so far off that you can't even tell which direction you went. Not very accurate. It seems like it's been doing it for the last year or so. Never noticed it before. Anyone else have the same problem?

I got about 6 pictures of this buck over the last month. How old do you think he is? I'm not good at guessing, but he doesn't look that old to me. If i can hold off, and the orange army doesn't take him, he should be awesome in a year or two. This just isn't right.

Hey everyone, a friend of mine has a very small pond on some property he bought. Looks nice, but it's at the end of a housing subdivision and is very small. At least it's secluded. We put some catfish in it last year from the Mississippi, but assuming they made it, we doubt there's much more in...

Hey everyone, Just getting ready to leave monday for our annual, weeklong trip to Sugema, and was wondering if anyone has been there in the last week? We shouls be doing pretty good as far as timing the crappie spawn goes, and the weather looks like it is going to be great. Should be a great...

Hey everyone. I gave half my deer to my brother. He wanted summer sausage from somewhere else. He took the burger in and the processor needs the number i got when I called the deer in. Should they need that # or the tag #? I pitched what was left of the bloody tag after I picked up my half...

Markus Coker was granted a release from the Iowa Hawkeye football team and his scholarship. Can anybody tell me how the Hawkweyes can lose both McCall and Coker in only a couple weeks? Why does it seem like everytime we get a good running back or receiver, they get in trouble, get suspended...

These would be the quarries just west of Tipton Iowa along the Cedar River in Cedar Valley Park. I just came across them while driving back roads doing some sightseeing today after taking a deer up to the Tipton Locker. These look like interesting places to fish. It is legal to fish them...

I posted this a couple years ago but thought i would do it again with the rut kicking in. It is some good video. I have a homebrew videocamera setup using a Sony TR517 videocamera converted to IR, running a 120 led IR light. I had it mounted on the tree looking right down the licking branch...

I've been doing alot of working lately so i have only been out 4 times, all in the last 2 weeks, and have seen 0 deer from my stands. i have hunted a different stand every time. I'm as scent free as possible, always have the wind in my favor, can get in and out of my stands without being...

Hey everyone, i just got my new 2010 Elite GT500 2 days ago and took it to a well known big box store in Iowa City to have them put on a custom string and get everything in tune. That was friday morning and considering how busy they got they did good in getting me in and out. Besides papertuning...

I bought a dozen when i fletched some arrows a couple years back and shot one or two a couple times but never really have given them a chance to see what they could really do. Does anyone here on IW shoot FOBS? and if so, what do you think of them? I know they are better in a cross wind...