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2010 Spring Turkey Season

2010-04-12T18:27:00Z

Iowa Residents Call NOW! (319) 325-0367. Some dates still available with or without Lodging. Non-Residents please inquire about dates to check availablity.

2010 Spring Turkey

Youth Season: Apr 9-11
(IA residents only)

Combination Gun/Bow:
Season 1: Apr 12 - 15
Season 2: Apr 16 - 20
Season 3: Apr 21 - 27
Season 4: Apr 28 - May 16

Archery: Apr 12 - May 16
(IA residents only)

Shooting Hours
Gun:
1/2 hour before sunrise to sunset
Bow:
1/2 hour before sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset

Spring Bag Limit:
Daily bag and season possession limit is one bearded or male wild turkey for each valid license and transportation tag issued to the hunter.

Iowa non resident deer tags

2010-04-10T14:39:49Z

Just a reminder that the month of May is the application period for Iowa non
resident deer tags. Broken Brow Outfitters still has some openings so call
now to book your hunt.
Austin Maas
Broken Brow Outfitters
(319) 325-0367
www.brokenbrowoutfitters.com
Sent via my Windows Smart phone.

Spring Turkey Season Begins

2010-04-09T22:51:24Z

This was posted on Tuesday by the Iowa DNR. Happy Turkey Hunting!

*Spring Turkey Season Begins*
Posted: *April 6, 2010*
by: Iowa DNR

http://www.iowadnr.gov/news/10apr/springturkey.html

The first segment of this year's five part, spring turkey hunting season
begins Friday, April 9 with a special three-day, adult mentored youth hunt.
The first segment of the regular gun/bow season begins Monday, April 12.

Although populations may vary between regions, good to excellent numbers of
spring gobblers will be available to hunters statewide, says DNR Turkey
Biologist, Todd Gosselink.

"Right now, I'd have to say that the Loess Hills region [extreme western
Iowa] is the current turkey stronghold. The Loess Hills typically receive
less rainfall than other parts of the state which leads to good reproduction
and high poult survival. Our summer brood surveys have revealed some very
good turkey densities in that region, with the highest number of turkeys
reported per flock in Iowa," said Gosselink.

"North-central and northeastern Iowa showed an increase in turkey
reproduction during 2009, while the remainder of the state suffered a
decline. The results of the DNR's 2009 summer brood surveys showed a 10 - 15
percent decline in turkey reproduction statewide. We've had some very wet
conditions during recent nesting seasons and overall turkey numbers are not
as good as they were ten years ago. But I think hunters should also keep in
mind that, when compared to other regions of the U.S., Iowa still has some
very good turkey densities and some great opportunities for hunting those
birds," adds Gosselink.

During recent years, an average of 53,000 licensed turkey hunters have taken
to Iowa's woodlands each spring. Hunter success averages around 30 percent
--- significantly higher than for most regions of the U.S.

"People often ask which segment of the Iowa season is best," says Gosselink.
"I really push for people to take a kid hunting during our youth season.
It's a great opportunity to get into the out-of-doors, and getting young
people started is critical for maintaining our turkey hunting tradition.

"For adults, I'd recommend trying the third [April 21- 27] season. The third
season is definitely our most underutilized segment. Only 12 percent of Iowa
turkey hunters go third season, compared with 44 percent during the fourth
season. All things considered, there's no such thing as a 'bad' segment of
the Iowa season."

Welcome To Our Blog!

2010-04-08T21:27:00Z

This is a a piece for an email I received a couple of days ago and really hit home. This is a different way to look at the on going "right to bare arms" debate. Let me know what you think!

The Gun Is Civilization"

by Maj. L. C audill USM C (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation... and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

By Maj. L. C audill USM C (Ret)

So the greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.

Welcome

2010-04-07T15:22:10Z

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