Posted: 5/29/2013 7:51:30 AM EDT
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Good Gun stores? (I am partial to those that have reloading supplies) Kid Parks, any indoor play areas?
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The only gun store in town is Jax... BUT they are anti-gun... The owner decided it wasn't worth selling ar's and magazines because of what they cause.... We have a TON of city parks http://www.cityofames.org/index.aspx?page=141, and out on the west side of town there is a bowling/family fun place called perfect games. I've never been there however. Go check out reiman gardens http://www.reimangardens.iastate.edu/ Some stuff may be closed as we are beginning to sand bag and put up flood walls.
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Hickory Park is overrated. It's not even the best bbq in town, let alone the best restaurant.
JAX isn't a bad shop. They're owned by a Colorado outfit, so when Colorado went retard they got pinched. Nice guys that work there, it wasn't their idea. No reloading supplies to speak of. Bob's works the show circuit and probably supplies half the reloaders in the state. Jacobsons in Story City is a full line shop. Expensive, but he usually has what you need. Sportsmans In Ankeny is a big box store. Decent. Bass Pro in Altoona and Scheels in West Des Moines. Two or three small shops in Des Moines. |
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From what I've seen Ames doesn't have alot to offer unless your a college student.  You're not looking in the right places. Been here since '93. I've kept myself nicely entertained. Three good ranges within 15 minutes of town. Decent bike trail system. Several good restaurants. Cyclone atheltics (hey, they're getting better), fair live music scene. Thirty minutes to Des Moines if that floats your boat. If you're bored in Ames, it's your fault, not the town's. |
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Hickory park is decent...but I wouldn't even put on the same level as real bbq. Hickory Park hasn't been any good since they moved from East Lincoln Way to South Duff. That must have been a long time ago, I remember all the way back to the late 80's it being on S. Duff. Where on LW was it? Yes, it was a long time ago, I lived in Ames from the mid 1970s until the late 1980s. The Lincoln Way location was about 5 or 6 blocks East of Duff. Hickory Park moved to South 16th in the early 1980s and to their current location on South Duff in the 1990s. The location on South 16th was around 3x the size of the original location, and they just never had the same quality of the meat after they moved. It is very difficult to make slow smoked BBQ on that large of a scale and I don't think they even slow smoke it anymore, they grille it on a gas flame. Most of the flavor of their food comes from the sauce, and they don't even make that themselves. They buy Cattleman's in 5 gallon buckets like you can buy at Sam's Club -- if you look around the restaurant you might even see some of those big white buckets. Cattleman's is sweet KC style generic mass produced crap sauce. Good BBQ shouldn't even need any sauce. I think they mostly are trading on large portion size, and a mythos which doesn't get challenged much since there is really no real BBQ north of KC. A lot of people in the midwest think that weenies on a grille is "BBQ" so the bar isn't set very high up there. |
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Hickory park is decent...but I wouldn't even put on the same level as real bbq. Hickory Park hasn't been any good since they moved from East Lincoln Way to South Duff. That must have been a long time ago, I remember all the way back to the late 80's it being on S. Duff. Where on LW was it? Yes, it was a long time ago, I lived in Ames from the mid 1970s until the late 1980s. The Lincoln Way location was about 5 or 6 blocks East of Duff. Hickory Park moved to South 16th in the early 1980s and to their current location on South Duff in the 1990s. The location on South 16th was around 3x the size of the original location, and they just never had the same quality of the meat after they moved. It is very difficult to make slow smoked BBQ on that large of a scale and I don't think they even slow smoke it anymore, they grille it on a gas flame. Most of the flavor of their food comes from the sauce, and they don't even make that themselves. They buy Cattleman's in 5 gallon buckets like you can buy at Sam's Club -- if you look around the restaurant you might even see some of those big white buckets. Cattleman's is sweet KC style generic mass produced crap sauce. Good BBQ shouldn't even need any sauce. I think they mostly are trading on large portion size, and a mythos which doesn't get challenged much since there is really no real BBQ north of KC. A lot of people in the midwest think that weenies on a grille is "BBQ" so the bar isn't set very high up there. Jesus,you still pissing about this? |
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will if your into disc golf they have one really killer course and the other is ok. ya I know most of the people that play are pot heads but hey its fun and gets you the couch and get the heart pumping a little Is the heart pumping from the rattle of the chains or the 20ft elevation change in the course?  I've got a couple brothers that play religiously, I need to get into it.
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