This is some sad but funny stuff, if there is anyone that can help please send me a PM and I will get you in touch with Billy, yes he is a Trad Hunter.
Greetings All,
Hope the season is treating everyone well on all counts, and a little better than yours truly's at the present time, which was looking great until last PM when I finally got the directions to the farm I was supposed to go hunt in IA about 10 days from now.
The good news was that after applying for IA archery deer for the last 3 years my hunting partner and I finally drew tags and are slated to leave on Nov 4th to go hunt a small farm a friend of his owns in SE Iowa. The very bad news I learned last PM, is that the same partner REALLY messed up and had us apply for Zone 4 in SW Iowa (which we drew) rather than zone 5 in SE Iowa which is where our farm to hunt is actually located.
This certainly goes down as the mother of all screw ups on his part and I'm sure I'll have to empty a quiver full of blunt tipped birches on his sorry ass the next time I see him. However, with that being said and essentially irrelevant at this point we're sitting here with a couple of very expensive NR Zone 4 licenses in our pockets and nowhere to go use them. I don't even know the first thing about SW IA and I'm simply just trying to salvage some sort of a hunt at this point.
I don't know if any of you are from or have hunted IA, but I figured it was worth a shot sending a message out to beg for any help or guidance someone might be able to offer. Never having hunted IA, I haven't the foggiest idea how hard access is to come by from simply tapping on some doors, or if the majority of it is leased up like so much of our deer hunting here in MT. I see that there are a few state parks in Z4 that allow hunting around them but I don't know what deer numbers are like and/or if these places get pounded by archers or not?? We might even be able to try and come up with some kind of a modest trespass fee if that is the only option and the norm, but we're both pretty blue collared sort of guys, who prefer and frankly have to do the "do it yourselves" kind of hunts most all the time, because we usually can't afford otherwise. We could even offer a swap hunt kind of deal with a local IA bowhunter for either archery elk or antelope hunting in MT, bird hunting in ND or archery elk in ID if you can think of anyone down that way who might be interested in something like that. Any help of any sort is graciously accepted and much, much appreciated. Hope all is well and many Thanks again folks
Cheers,
Billy
Thanks,