Live in Eastern Iowa with my bride of 26 years and three great sons. I'm blessed to have a wife that lets me hunt as often as I want and an Employer that lets me flex my schedule to chase birds on short notice.
Know alot of hands on here and Fred H can attest that when it comes to ducks I'm...
Opted to go myself this morning and hunt a area I haven't in years got set up and Hutchies are flying by start calling while trying to take the gun out of the case and load it, they give me 4 circles and are on their final approach when in comes a suicide honker from out of no where, one shot...
We had a good shoot this morning as well. My wife, sister in law, brother in law, and myself went out. The overcast kind of screwed us right away as 10 min. into season it was still dark and birds flying all over. We ended up with 17 this morning with myself only shooting 2 teal as we tried...
Retriever Fun Test/ Training day at Aldo Leopold Access by Wapsie Valley High School in Fairbank, Iowa hostd by the Big Wapsie HRC and Key City HRC clubs. Come run your dog and throw a few birds on Saturday August 28th at 8:00 am. The cost is just $10 per handler and that includes birds...
Well guys I went into the hospital Thursday night thinkin that I was gettin the flu only for the doctor to come back and tell me that I need to have Apendix taken out.I was not happy seeing how early season is right around the corner!!! Anyone else had this procedure done before? If so how long...
We got the RoGator stuck and while pulling it out the clevis on the rope broke and went through the front and rear window. Missing Niel by 6 inches. It was a $2000 accident, it could have been alot worse though.
My boy and I went fishing in a local farm pond Sunday. We caught 36 Bass and missed or lost 10- 15. We both lost a couple that were really nice that tail walked on us. We caught 5 between 16 and 19 1/2.
We also had some company when we showed up. Mom and Dad took the goslings away before we...
I took my Gunner swimmin today and did some serious retrieving work... I made alot of ground on getting him to stay, which has been my biggest problem. Lots of waterfowl swimmin around too. Here's a few pics
Here is a waterfowl related questionnaire that I thought could be a good source of information/curiosity for newbies and seasoned waterfowlers alike...this is for information only, so please no comments or questions about other peoples answers. If you wish to give any sort of explanation behind...
This starts my normal routine during the summer w/ my oldest..3 nights a week we are out at the farm... He rides, I work, then we run the dog, {cheap babysiter} other 2 to 3, I'm golfing, then the wiff babysits me :lol:
No snow geese in the area so I've been taking advantage of the Canada geese in the area. This past weekend, they were close to were I live so I loaded up the Gator with decoys, blind and camera and headed out in the field.
A local WPA sign at the near by marsh were I hoped for some pic's but...
well we went out on friday morning to our public hunting and to our amazement .... nobody there!!! :D So as im running WIDE OPEN in the boat in the dark.... we hit ICE!!! so after slowing down and taking it easy we finnally found some open water.. we managed to scrape down some geese, then as...