Thanks everyone. I guess we will just play it by ear. I was wondering if there were any smaller bodies of water in the area to fish if it was too windy for Francis Case. I was looking on the map and couldn’t find anything that looked fishable.

Are you using actual Tangle Free brand line? This is the green line with a solid core. Other tangle free lines are hollow. I found with the imitation stuff when it gets cold it gets brittle and actually breaks with ease.

Well, after range shooting, and shooting a couple deer I have 12 300 win mag rounds left out of a box of 20. I have 3 boxes left out of a case of duck loads from this past season. I do have about 1000 rounds for my Ruger 10/22 though. haha

I live outside of town. Interesting, I will have to look into it. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the response. I was in fact looking at a Cur, but the looks and the size doesn’t fit with the rest of the family. I guess we are looking for a good and very small squirrel dog, and the feist was a family favorite. Anyone know of a good place to get one close to MN?

I caught a northern about a mile above Alma on Thursday with those blue spots!! Only 1 out of 5 total had spots. Thanks for the info.

Check out the US Fish and Wildlife Service website. The river/refuge system is controlled by them. Some rules are different than the states rules.

They have had my HDS 5 since November 10th!!!!!! Same problem, it wouldn’t power up. Got my RA#, sent it in to San Diego (which they told me to!) Waited 7 days to check on it and they told me they had no idea. I thought I would wait another couple days to call again. Recieved a call out of the blue later that day and it was a supervisor stating that I shipped it to the wrong place. I told her I shipped it to the place that the “RECORDING” told me to. My paperwork that came with my unit stated Tulsa, OK, but the recording told me San Diego. She told me they had phone problems and that’s why it told me the wrong place. Couldn’t the person on the phone just tell me where to ship it instead of having to listen to a recording of where to ship it. Anywho, she told me they would ship it over to Tulsa and get to work on it asap. That was over a month ago. When the hell is that place going to be open again? I keep calling and get a recording stating they are closed for a meeting. What the heck is that? Maybe thier phone system is messed up again.
I had problems with a h2oc a few years back, and had to send it in twice, but they finally shipped a brand new one, and it’s been working fine for years now. But this is way out of hand.

Chamberlain/Mitchell is the area I am going to be in. Used to a lot of crops still in anyway, so nothing new. Thanks guys!

Thanks much!

Do Muskie eat 1 lb Channel Cats? If so, then I would possibly be in favor of the stocking. That chain is over run with small Channel Cats. I think they stocked those in there in the 1980’s.

Took me 10 years, 7 draws before I got my first. But the last few years have been a BLAST!

On paper they did increase the acreage of the hunting area. I would consider the area a lot less huntable than what we had. There was pretty good public outcry, but it fell on deaf ears for the most part. The hunting on Big Lake was getting pretty crappy anyway. The closed area is marked well, just run down Indian Slough, Catfish Slough, or come in from the top or bottom and you will see without a problem.

They are a different sound than Blazers, but not any more or less loud in my opinion.

I haven’t noticed problems with removing them yet. I don’t remove them very often though. I have arrows for hunting/3-d/and just shooting around, but no problems so far.

I have been using them for a little over a year. They are fine. Will pop right off on a pass through (gives you a starting point for tracking if you get a pass through). I have heard of people shooting them through netting without a problem but don’t know myself. You do NOT want to shoot groups with these as it’s pretty easy to hit other fobs that are already on the target. Nice since you can just pop them on and off. Fixed blades fly great! If you are shooting with other people you will want to get the blue or black ones with black nocks. People will be shooting your fobs and laughing all the time if you use the orange ones.

Spent a long Sunday afternoon at the range and will be going back to 777. Tried everything and couldn’t get groups like I’m used to. Switched back to the 777 and Powerbelts and the groups came back as well!! Now I have to go drop some more $$ on Powerbelts. Must have shot 25-30 times on Sunday!

I shot 15 245g Powerbelts the other day at 50 yards with 100g of the Shockey sticks without cleaning. I shot 3 different 5 shot groups and lost nothing as far as accuracy. My brother did say that he saw like a streaming FLAME heading down range a couple different times, but we never found anything smoldering on the ground. If it was a charge that didn’t burn completely I figured my shot would have been way off, but none of them were off enough to worry.

At the same time my brother was shooting the 777 and when we went to clean our guns the Shockey was cleaner, and easier to clean up. Not to say that the 777 was hard to clean though.

I haven’t spent enough time with it to give you a great opinion of it Steve. But from what I’ve been hearing, I may go back to the 777 for the simple fact that the only difference I have found so far is that my gun is cleaner when I’m done shooting for the day, and it saves a little field cleaning as well. It may come down to which one I can get the better deal on at the time I’m ready to by if both the Shockey and the 777 keep showing good results.

Besides, cleaning the gun with a couple while you wait for the TC Foaming Bore Cleaner to work it’s magic is what it’s all about.

See, Casey “can” sit still, just put a duck in his mouth and pull out a camera!!!

Sounds great Cat!! Too bad I missed out on that. Hope you have an opening again some day!

Two per person in MN. How was North Dakota?

Thanks ChucklesU, I will have to give them a try. Anyone know of an indoor range where a guy can shoot loaders?? It gets a little cold out there these days.

Thanks much!

I have found #7 steel 1 oz. shot 2 3/4 inch in the Federal Duck and Pheasant load. Fleet Farm is where I found it. I agree that lead has more knock down power, but steel is very fast, and inside 30 yards with the #7’s it is just as deadly. I am a duck hunter, but on opening morning in my little wood duck haunt I use #7’s and have no problems killing them out to 30 yards.

If you are planning on jumping a pond in your area I would bring some bigger steel along, you will probably be using an improved cylinder, and I would switch out to 3 inch #2’s when I get close to the pond.

I have found #7 steel 1 oz. shot 2 3/4 inch in the Federal Duck and Pheasant load. Fleet Farm is where I found it. I agree that lead has more knock down power, but steel is very fast, and inside 30 yards with the #7’s it is just as deadly. I am a duck hunter, but on opening morning in my little wood duck haunt I use #7’s and have no problems killing them out to 30 yards.

If you are planning on jumping a pond in your area I would bring some bigger steel along, you will probably be using an improved cylinder, and I would switch out to 3 inch #2’s when I get close to the pond.

Sorry for your loss Kris. Prayers sent from the other side of the river!

Already pickled pickles, but buy the whole ones and cut them yourself. If they are cut already they won’t take on the taste very well.

David, I probably still have one of those tubs of stink bait from back then. You are welcome to it if you want??

I figured you would Kris. and is right!!

I figured you would Kris. and is right!!