IOWA=slug guns!! Guessing 20 gauge?
Iowa Fall 2012 GTG
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IOWA=slug guns!! Guessing 20 gauge?
Hedgerow
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Later doe season down by your neck of the woods. It's a hoot, I use my M1A1/M14 with a red dot.
Hedgerow
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Do they at least let you all hunt out of tree stands???
Really!! My oldest boy last year, in a tree.
They do let us use high powers on turtles
I think!! Wife wouldn't swim anymore.
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Hedgerow
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Turtle shootin' is a favorite pastime around these parts...
They're like jackrabbits...
Need thinned out every so often...
:msp_biggrin:
They're like jackrabbits...
Need thinned out every so often...
:msp_biggrin:
hoskvarna
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yes its a 20ga. my boy was done so i let her use it. she likes it too. sweet shootin gun.
As my brother said it is a 20 gauge and boy does it ever throw those sabot slugs. It has a "heavy" profile barrel and a trigger that is unbelievably crisp and light for a somewhat inexpensive gun. That little 20 has been the demise of A LOT of deer over the past 4 or 5 yrs. The Iowa DNR allows us 15 depredation tags for our family farm and we believe in filling them all---if possible.
Thanks for all the great comments guys, will show them all to my girl. Thats one way to get her on Arborist Site!:msp_tongue:
Ron
high powers are for the babies that can't sit still long enough to wait for a deer to come in range or for guys that can't shoot. Seriously! high powers make it way to easy and your inside cleaning a deer before you even get the chance to enjoy the time you have outside... just my 2 cents.
High powers are allowed late season in the lower two county teers of the state.
High powers have there place and states, that needs to be understood. As far as in iowa....
I'm good working for my food!
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Steve NW WI
Unwanted Riff Raff.
The slug line is just 10 miles south of me in WI. I've hunted down there, kinda scary. Most of the locals use 8+ round tubes on autoloaders and try to walk rounds on target from long range like an artillery barrage. Not my style. I'll just put the crosshairs on one with the .270 and be done one squeeze of the trigger later. You don't HAVE to shoot the first thing that walks by.
Yeah, some guys hunt(?) like that, but not all. I hunt deer with a slug gun just like I would hunt deer with a rifle, the only difference is the maximum range I'm willing to shoot... with a 125-yard (rested) shot being the limit, under less-than-perfect conditions that limit is reduced. Iowa doesn't allow rifles for deer hunting, but center-fire handguns are allowed... and again, about 125-yards is my limit using my best shootin' irons on a solid rest.
I've never understood the "no rifles" thinking... I mean, what's more dangerous... a bunch of guys slinging one-ounce chunks of lead in a barrage of gunfire, or one carefully aimed rifle shot per hunter. See, Iowa allows "party hunting" of deer... meaning everybody in the hunting party can fill any, or all of the tags, a throw-back to the days when few deer populated Iowa. Hunts are conducted by the "drive" method, i.e. several hunters "driving" the deer to others standing and waiting... and then shooting at full-out running deer; hence, shotguns. At times, now that there is so many deer, that turns into total chaos... multiple guns firing multiple shots all at the same time (I quit "party hunting" some years ago because it was down-right uncomfortable when that happened). We have lots and lots of deer now... ain't no reason why the law shouldn't change to "fill your own tag" and allow rifles.
Food for GTG
Nathan, thought I would bring a couple jugs of orange juice for B'fast on Sat. and can sure bring something else if there is anything else you can think of. Going to have a big crockpot of chili for lunch, if that sounds all right. I'll also bring some trimmings for the chili(crackers,cheese,etc.). You will have somewhere to plug in a crockpot?
Starting to get anxious for this GTG. And the burn ban has been lifted, so we can have a fire on Fri. night! WooHoo! Guess we will need some grub for Fri. then, any suggestions?
Ron
Nathan, thought I would bring a couple jugs of orange juice for B'fast on Sat. and can sure bring something else if there is anything else you can think of. Going to have a big crockpot of chili for lunch, if that sounds all right. I'll also bring some trimmings for the chili(crackers,cheese,etc.). You will have somewhere to plug in a crockpot?
Starting to get anxious for this GTG. And the burn ban has been lifted, so we can have a fire on Fri. night! WooHoo! Guess we will need some grub for Fri. then, any suggestions?
Ron
Hedgerow
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Blah-blah... Too bad your overlords don't trust you to shoot deer with big boy guns...:msp_wink:
hoskvarna
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i have shot deer at 225yrds with that same little 20ga, :msp_wub: multiple times. there has been discussions on how far a heavy slug would go versus a small slug from a hi power ,but nobody will agree. so we live by the rules rite or wrong.
jonsered raket
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So im wondering what the actual plan is? is most of the stuff going on saturday? what time should i try and be there 10?
rms61moparman
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i have shot deer at 225yrds with that same little 20ga, :msp_wub: multiple times. there has been discussions on how far a heavy slug would go versus a small slug from a hi power ,but nobody will agree. so we live by the rules rite or wrong.
The simple fact is that until you flatlanders start growing deer 12 feet tall at the shoulder, where you have to shoot up instead down, there is very little chance of stray bullets....or slugs!
Mike
I going to be honest... All the shotgun hunters that group hunt are about to kill me but what ev... I think party hunting along with multipe round guns should not be allowed at all. People that hunt should make it sporting and feel victorious at the end of a sucessful hunt. That doesn't happen when you have multiple shot anything... pistol, rifle, or shotgun... I think deer hunting should be limited to single shot guns. Like muzzleloaders and bows... If you're not good enough of a hunter to get a deer in close enough and take it down with one shot you shouldn't be hunting anyhow. Party hunting where you take down 12 or more deer in an afternoon is a slaughtering... NOT HUNTING! You should hunt for the fun and anticipation of a kill not walk around with the expectation of 2-3 kills. Think what you want but this last year Iowa DNR Biologists actually said that deer numbers were significantly down and we needed to reduce the amount of tags sold in order to maintain a healthy sustainable deer population. What happened... Lobbying insurance companies and a republican controled gov't increased tag sales going completely AGAINST the professional opinions that try to sustain a deer population for future generations. I know someone is about to run his/her mouth about how there are more deer this year than any other but unless you have the millions of dollars to do the actual research and know the truth like the state actualy does... SHUT UP! Just the 2 cents of a lowly state worker thats trying to keep tomorrow at least as good as today for our kids... Now come the haters...
Fend for yourself but be prepaired to share? I'll put the gill down on the cement for all to use...
They do in the souther two teers which are the most populace for deer. Rifle hunting shows higher success rates and thus allow rifle in more populus deer areas.
Sorry off topic! LOGS ARE HERE IN 3 BIG piles... that chainsawie enough for ya???
Kinda play by ear so the earlier the better. I figure we'll do door prizes, milling and carving after lunch. Dollar races and 350/2150 races at 10ish? whatever happens... happens... i'm game... I might be the host but this is only my second GTG so don't ask me for the game plan. We'll leave that to the vets...
PS: I've got a Daewoo 223 rifle with 800rds that needs a new home via trade or barter but only at GTG... I'll get appraised this week if anyone is interested let me know!
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