Mark:

Strange coincidence...I'm sitting in Muscatine, Iowa, right now. I work at Bandag and live about 25 mins S.W of here. How'd the hunting go for you and where did you hunt?

I have 50 acres (just about finished with the 2 acre pond) that's mostly grass, with several thousand small trees I've planted since '97. Opening day, we (2 of us) only managed 4 birds...Sunday we got 5 more. All this on my lonely 50 acres. Food plots must be working, but they say Iowa's had a great year and all crops around me were picked week before season.

In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times. My wife figures I'm due to die any day now...