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[sten44]

Just a quick thought...

 

[Wind River]

SD

 

[remy3424]

That bit of public in NW Iowa will be loaded!!....with hunters! Get there early.

 

[sten44]

That bit of public in NW Iowa will be loaded!!....with hunters! Get there early.

Busier than SD public opening weekend? Lol

 

[Munster927]

SE MN

 

[Bob Peters]

 

[gimruis]

Balls, they both sound like a crap load of hunting pressure to me.

 

[MNMEAD]

If there was an "anywhere I can hunt private land" option, that would probably be it. But the season is long, and I can deal with the bustle of the opening weekend if I want to hunt.

 

[birddude]

Write in vote for my local preserve. No competition. Can be there in an hour. No aching legs. If I can't hit shit, one phone call and poof, 4 more birds appear in the field. I can be home on the porch with a beer before dark!!

 

[wapete]

Grouse Woods of northern MN

 

[Alaskan swamp collies]

I’m allergic to people so the first 9 days of season in any state make me break out in a sweat.

 

[Bob Peters]

I’m allergic to people so the first 9 days of season in any state make me break out in a sweat.

Me too but the world is shrinking at a compound rate, no avoiding it. So I just take a claritin and go.

 

[remy3424]

Looking around at the disappearing habitat locally to me, it will not be long until most hunting in IOWA will be on our few pockets of public ground.

 

[goldenboy]

The whole state, versus a NW corner?! I would take the whole state any day.

 

[KEOutdoors]

Busier than SD public opening weekend? Lol

Theres about 100x the public hunting land in SD than NW IA. Theres almost 15x public land acres in SD than all of Iowa. (5 million in SD and 400K in Iowa). NW IA corner has about 50k acres, SD has 5 million. I think youll have less pressure in SD personally.

 

[KEOutdoors]

Write in vote for my local preserve. No competition. Can be there in an hour. No aching legs. If I can't hit shit, one phone call and poof, 4 more birds appear in the field. I can be home on the porch with a beer before dark!!

That is definitely a stress free way to do it!

 

[Birdman2]

That is definitely a stress free way to do it!

Lots cheaper also.

 

[KEOutdoors]

Lots cheaper also.

I finally visited a preserve local to me for the first time recently, had a good time and got the dogs some work. Birds held extremely tight or ran like chickens, with no in-between, but flew well and a good time was had by all. It doesn't give the rush of cornering and getting up a wild rooster, but it was fun. Good eating too, nice soft meat. Hundred bucks for 4 birds, which is 2 meals. Hard to beat a fun couple hours in the field plus two great meals for that price.

 

[Birdman2]

I finally visited a preserve local to me for the first time recently, had a good time and got the dogs some work. Birds held extremely tight or ran like chickens, with no in-between, but flew well and a good time was had by all. It doesn't give the rush of cornering and getting up a wild rooster, but it was fun. Good eating too, nice soft meat. Hundred bucks for 4 birds, which is 2 meals. Hard to beat a fun couple hours in the field plus two great meals for that price.

That is cheap. Wish I had something like that close.

 

[Goosemaster]

Write in vote for my local preserve. No competition. Can be there in an hour. No aching legs. If I can't hit shit, one phone call and poof, 4 more birds appear in the field. I can be home on the porch with a beer before dark!!

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