Describe a time when you were irrationally angry about something fairly benign.

I love Iowanian stories:D

Hinterland looks crazy, almost like a mini-Woodstock.
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I'm pretty sure I saw that grotto when I was very young, I have a vague recollection of it. Not sure how we ended up way up there as it's in a part of the state we rarely spent much time in.

The Freedom Rock thing is interesting, I found a map of them and apparently there is one in Kimballton which is just down the road from the family farm. Been in that town countless times and had never heard of it. Definitely something I'll keep in mind when I'm planning my visits to the state.

DSM does have a fantastic riverfront, rode through it several times. I really need to spend a weekend there sometime.

Describe your last hoggin experience...

Iowanian, you are a stand up guy. This is the most honest AMA to date, You seem to be an honest guy with a fulfilling life, thanks for sharing.

Ah man, I love Dubuque. Lived there for 6 years. Have spent probably ten 4th of July weekends there...always fun.

Also love Iowanian...onto my question for him...

In all actuality, I was maybe one of the few that thought it was confusing that Brad Pitt left Jennifer Aniston for Jolie.

Austin DeSanto is notorious for being the guy who beat Spencer Lee in the finals at state when Lee was going for his 4th state championship (along with an undefeated HS career). Lee was competing with a torn ACL, but DeSanto is notorious for it nevertheless.

Now, he is becoming known for some of his on the mat antics that he pulled at Drexel. He displayed bizarre behavior at times, most notably trying to break Stevan Micic’s arm with a Kai Mura Jiu Jitsu move at the end of their match in the quarters at nationals...this was when it was obvious that he was going to lose the match...he was getting his butt kicked. After the match, there has been an abundance of rumbling about DeSanto having autism...something that had never come out prior to that match..

Since nationals, DeSanto has been granted his release from Drexel and it looks very likely that he is going to transfer to Iowa. He attended the World Cup with Lee this weekend...definitely being recruited.

Do you think it is a mistake for Iowa to be recruiting this kid, given his behavioral concerns? Should they treat him with kids gloves due to his alleged autism? How much different should the coaches handle or treat him due to his autism? Do you think it’s a good idea that they are pursuing this or do you think they are just asking for disaster?

I know what you mean, but I'm playing dumb and answering this way.


Last spring, myself and five of my circle of trust went to the Paris Texas area to shoot pigs. We were to pay with cash and arrived in a small RV. We met the alleged proprietor who and and his yes man in a walmart parking lot to buy licenses. The guy with the rat tail on the top of his head who smelled like he had been rolling with wild hogs for a month claimed to be the owner and pilot. We'd seen that guys pic and knew he was lying and called him out. The real guy came out and said they were trying to pull a joke on us. It was stupid. We were then told to follow them to the lodge and turned down a dead end road and a tuck pulled in behind us. It felt like a robbery attempt to be honest, but let's assume that was a terrible terrible idea.

We made our plans and we're told to be ready to leave at 6am sharp and would be left at 6:01. The guy begins to talk to us like it's our first day hunting, we explain that we're seasoned shotgun deer hunters and have shot moving animals before, we're killers. He basically says "yeah, whatever". Several of us appear to know more about taking the weapons he has apart to clean than the guy he has doing it, but they accept no advice....
We were ready, they rolled in at 7:15. The tone is being set.

We arrive at the hanger, pick our partner and draw straws for hunts. I draw second straw along with my brother who did 2 tours in Iraq and spent some time as a gunner. If he puts us on hogs, hogs will die we tell him.

For this hunt we are required to use their weapons. I select a saiga style 12 ga. With 00 buck shot over the AR. We step into something similar to a roofing harness and are clipped to a tether the size of a pinky finger. The engine whines and begins to roar...as the helicopter shakes and lifts off the ground. We zip into s field with a single tree where we are told to step out one foot onto the rail, lean out until the tether is tight and fire one round when told at the base of a lone tree in the hay field.....I don't shoot quick enough and the guy bitches st me.

He begins to orate about his awesome mapping and navigation system...and I quickly identify it as an iPad with google earth, and a kmz file with boundaries of land we can shoot on....I mention it because I have suggestions to improve it....the guy no longer wants to discuss that. What a dick.

We crest a ridge and out of the corner of my eye spot five pigs breaking cover from scrub brush and heading across a hay field to a drainage. We are told to step to the rail....the helicopter tiles sharply to the left leaving us facing the ground as he drops over the field about 50 yards from the ground......i position the fire stick to my shoulder, look through the red dot and aim just behind the rear hog in the group......After a series of 3 round bursts from the front and back seat, 3 vermin hogs lay dead in a field.

To be continued.

I spend a lot of time in the North East part of the State. Decorah kicks some serious ass. Nordic Fest is pretty cool.
Other cool is the Brewery scene with Toppling Goliath, Pulpit Rock.
The Upper Iowa River is one of the most spectacular floats you can do in the Midwest. Great Trout Streams etc...

Spook Cave. South of McGreggor.

hogs.....

The guy bitches at us from the pilots seat at every opportunity. Lean out further, get your ass cheek on the seat, don't let that slide handle break my damn windshield(because it happened a year earlier or something)...He's bitched so much I'm getting pissed off to the point of it ruining my trip. On the ride home he does some fancy Kiowa Pilot shit and we drop map of the earth in a creek bed and roar 16 miles to camp. I'm so pissed off I'm not enjoying it and I'm contemplating breaking his ****ing jaw when we land. I'm paying for this shit....

The last group goes up and returns soaked from the light rain, never having seen a pig......the pilot basically says "well it's raining....and might all day, I'm booked tomorrow so you might think about going home if you don't want to wait 2 days(with no lodging...and the promised camp chef that wasn't there and had not made the breakfast we had been promised)

We're still paying full price if we leave.....but getting half the air time. This guy is a dick.

Late afternoon the weather breaks. First group goes up....Its about my turn and I'm annoyed enough with this asshole that I don't even care to go up for my second trip...I offer it to the other 4 guys but they insist I go. Reluctantly I do...but if he acts like he did last time, I'm not responsible for my actions on the ground.....

We strap in, tether our weapon choices to our chest strap and lift off. After half an hour of nothing, we are hovering over ground that is the wrong color on the map. My brother sees a cluster of hogs below us and tells the pilot. He doesn't believe him because he didn't see them first.....they are there....we hover up and down to try to get them to flee across a river where we can shoot....pilot says they will never go. My brother grins and says "watch this" and starts waving his arms up and down....and the cluster breaks for the creek. We drop lower and watch them cross a shallow river...they're going to enter a large field where we can shoot.....50-60 pigs are entering an open field. This is what I thought it would be like.

We swoop in low behind them, we're instructed to start at the back and work forward with the group...which we already knew from years of deer hunting. My brother in the front, I in the rear seat and we begin to lay waste. The hogs split into 2 groups of 30 and we're on them. We're both firing essentially on the same pig, it rolls and then move up to the next. I turn a little up when I lean and I see a brass eject into the hood of my brother's pullover and it goes down his neck...It's funny but not funny.....He goes on a terror of 3 round bursts and rolls pig after pig before I can even shoot. When it's over we leave 18 on the ground in that field. The pilot, who has been a complete asshole the entire time begins to cheer and says "holy shit, you guys CAN shoot" and mentions using my brother's video as training for his future hunts.

The last group goes up again, never sees a pig. We all pay full price, they say it's too muddy to collect any meat and basically want us to leave.

It was fun but we went with the wrong outfit. My brother said the guy was an asshole because he was a warrant officer in the army too long.

I know Iowa is under a lot of pressure to compete with Penn State. I think they have a hole in the lineup and are willing to make some risky moves to do it. Honestly, Tom Brands is an asshole according to most of the people I know who know him, and the mutual family we know....I want iowa to have tough wrestlers, but not dirty ones. I want them to have people my son can look up to.....not a huge fan of this move if true.

Also, I don't buy the autistic argument. he's just a dick.

You should have blasted him with some of your CP fire.

And videoed it.

I would pay money for that shit. :D

I will be away today but will circle back to this. I'm sure I've got a bucket full of stories where I was angry about stupid things.

My brother and I were both wearing his go pro....After we got off the first round, I was telling my brother that if the guy got off the copter I might break his ****ing jaw. I was hot. My brother laughed and pointed up at his go pro and to mine(they were the companies and they use the footage to make a video).

I looked straight at the camera and left the asshole the very message you were looking for....he saw it for sure and so did his helper. It didn't make the final video however.

ROFL

Well done, sir.

I’ve kind of heard the same thing. Heard Terry is one of the coolest guys ever, but Tom is a dick.

DeSanto’s interviews are weird...I don’t know what to make of them. I know he had a terrible concussion that kept him out a month or two...I wonder if he has had issues with that.

Have you ever eaten feral hog meat? I would think it would have a strong flavor.

I have said this before, but I wrestled terry brands at a freestyle clinic when I was a sophomore Andy he was a national champ. Twice actually.

I have a couple of times. I shot one in Oklahoma a few years ago. I made a big batch of slow roaster pulled pork and it was good. We cooked another one in the ground whole and it was ok.

You live in corn country. What are your thoughts on GMO?

I don't consider myself an expert on the subject of GMO. I understand the need and value of disease and pest resistant corn at a time that more people need to be fed on less acreage. With the expense of crop inputs I inderstsnd why farmers will use the, to increase yields for a shit at making money. I understand the need for tougher stalks than handle storms wind and drought.

I also think sometimes the need for increased yield can come at a cost and that while I have no proof, I am open to the possibilities that there are unintended consequences. Simple examples are the corn stalks that are 7' spears. I've had more than one stalk bust through the dash of a ranger and nearly impale myself or a passenger. Last fall a guy riding with me was a couple of inches from having his ball sack kabobed. Looking at how fat Americans are getting it does make me question how much corn syrup is being ingested and if it has some contribution to rising cancer rates. Too much sugar isn't good for us.....as I swig a Mountain Dew.

I guess consider me a cautious supporter. I think the companies have an obligation to put safe products into the food resources......that don't kill my honey bees.

Good reasoned response.

I would think you would be all for most of it. I mean, the corn belt is not going to stop growing corn (as the guy in the wheat belt actively tries to grow less wheat), and without the BT gene your neighbors would be spraying thousands of tons of insecticide to kill root worm beetles. Shit is nasty - certainly worse than herbicide. Insects are a lot closer to human physiology than plants. Then there is runoff and all the nice stuff. And talk about killing your bees!

My plants come under far too much stress to ever be that tough of cornstalk, so I can’t really relate.

As far as the nutrition side I agree stuff needs to not be poisoned, but in terms of being fat, we are probably going to be fat whether it is off of imported cane sugar or corn syrup. And I’m certainly not an advocate of someone handling nutrition for me because I’m not disciplined enough to do it right.

I presume you know, but it isn’t GMOs that kill your bees. It is “supposedly” the insecticide in the seed treatment. Which I’ll buy.

Chiefs just signed her.

One bump to notify the pending conclusion of the EyeowayneEan AMA.

Thank you to those who participated. If you take nothing else from the culmination of my 17 years of posting here; donate blood and become CPR certified if you are not. Doing one of those two things make the time I've wasted here telling dick jokes to you people worth it.