Round Lake Sportsmans Club

03/15/2026

EDIT: Great response. We are down to 8 half gallons of the canned stew!

Did you miss the Mulligan stew or are you craving a steaming hot bowl? We have you covered. Sure would taste good on a day like today!

We have 1/2 gallons and quarts pressure canned stew for $17.50 and $10.00 respectively.

We also have stew frozen in pints for $5 - and quarts for $10.

Reach out to claim some stew for your freezer or pantry shelves today!

03/08/2026

Last night at the Mulligan Stew our Club President Kyle Wendland presented Round Lake Legion Commander Glenn Miller with what will be a retired American Flag drop box. The flag drop box will have the official Charles Flentje Post 461 logo on it and the legion will decide where to place this box.

Our Sportsmans club is using some of the proceeds from the Veterans Raffles we have held the last few years for this purchase. We will pour them a concrete pad to secure the box to as well as fix the light that shines on the flag pole at the Legion. Couldn’t think of a better way to use these funds.

We have partnered with the Legion on projects over the years and this is our way of showing our appreciation.

Watch for an upcoming dedication when this arrives (in about 45-60 days).

We know lots of you have retired flags laying around ready to be disposed of properly! Get them out and be ready!

03/07/2026

Silent Auction is all ready for tonight!! See you at 5:00pm.

03/07/2026

Prep for the Mulligan Stew started today … boiled turkeys to make the broth all day long and tonight all the things. The RL legion also presented us with a tote of sportsman’s club “stuff”. In that tote were these aprons that I totally remember all the guys wearing back in the day! Full circle moment. Will we see you tomorrow night?

03/05/2026

On today’s edition of what’s on the silent auction we want to again thank Oak Hill Outdoor/Oak Hill Marine for some more amazing items as well as Agco Corp! Who can resist some toy tractors and a stuffed cow ? Come and check it out on Saturday !!!

03/05/2026

Tonight is our monthly meeting at 7 pm at the old senior center in Round Lake. Hope to see you there! Reach out if you would like a Zoom link to join.
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03/05/2026

The first of the silent auction items! Huge thank you to Head Over Heels Salon, Daily Apple and Oak Hill Marine/Oak Hill Outdoor!

Come bid on these awesome items and have some good eats! Round Lake Legion is where it’s at on Saturday night! See you there !

03/03/2026

The countdown is on for our Annual Mulligan Stew! Come and have a hearty bowl of stew, World Famous Venison Meatballs, the ever popular pheasant wraps, some homemade bread and some amazing desserts from some of the best RLSC members! Bring your appetite!

Starting tomorrow we will start highlighting some of our awesome silent auction items that have been donated by some of the best Club Sponsors.

See you Saturday Night!! The weather looks to be GREAT for a night on the town!!

03/01/2026

There is some buckthorn in RL area, it is extremely invasive.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT?

This is the problem with buckthorn. Notice a couple of things here that are why I equate this to cancer for habitat.

Berries
If I remember right there are four seeds in each buckthorn berry. So that one tree with berries has thousands of new plants.

Seed Viability
According to the University of Minnesota, 95% of the seeds that hit the ground will germinate the very next season. That's a blessing and a curse. The blessing is if you can attack it for a few years it is similar to thistle and other biennial w**d control. A couple seasons of control will make a pretty big dent in the seed supply. 

Two Genders
With buckthorn there is a male tree and a female tree--a berry tree and a tree that is just a tree. Don't worry too much about keeping them separate. It's not really important that you know which is which. Just get after the berry trees first. Stop the cancer first. You can work on complete eradication later. 

Complete Canopy
There is literally nothing growing under this buckthorn thicket's canopy. Not even grass could grow because of the complete shade. It was down to the dirt with a light covering of buckthorn leaves. For this reason, it is not very possible to control buckthorn with fire. There's never enough fuel to carry a flame. 

Wildlife Use
Every single native berry is gone by fall because they are preferred by the birds and bears. Buckthorn is last on the deer preference list for the leaves as well. It doesn't get eaten much unless it's all that's left. It takes over because of its lack of preference as wildlife browse as well as its prolific seed production.

Control
Your two choices for control are rip it out or kill it with herbicide. That's pretty much all we have right now as far as the effective removal of buckthorn and other invasive brush. Goats and mowing just prolong the problem. You have to get the roots.  I will post the link to the chemical I use and my invasive species control playlist in the comments.

02/26/2026

Mulligan Stew is next weekend, March 7 and we are still in need of about 15 pounds of Venison. Do you have any you would like to donate to the club for our "World famous" Venison Meatballs???
Drop us a message or call/text a club member.

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02/21/2026

Thank you to Tim Sather and the crew at Oak Hill Marine for giving Ole Horney a new floor! We thank you for your sponsorship and donations to the Club! Tim also donated the new engine on the back of the boat a few years ago ! Thank you is not sufficient!

02/17/2026

Do you have the Mulligan Stew on your calendars ? It is coming in fast - Saturday, March 7.

We could still use some more venison and pheasant if anyone has any they would like to donate! Reach out or drop as a dm.