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For the dreamers. Is your retirement location based on upland hunting
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03/22/14 11:47 PM
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Let's hear about it
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03/23/14 12:16 AM
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I have mine. I gave up my last lease in 2007. The birds came back on my friends ranch about the same time and he got a couple of pups. I help him with the pups and am always included on his hunts.
I had some really good hunts for the first 10 years after I retired. I think I hunted 34 days and picked up around 500 birds on the year that I retired.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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03/23/14 12:37 AM
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03/23/14 01:22 AM
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I would just like cooler weather 365 days a year and dry field cover so I could run my dogs every other day. Got a chance to work my three girls about 30 times this season on guided hunts all with no shooting by me. Went out to shoot myself about 15 times. Can'y get enough of a good things
www.poetryshootingclub.comGun Dog Training, Flighty Quail Guided/Unguided Quail Hunting Group Events/Parties 700 Yard Range CLOSE TO DALLAS Take a youth shooting 214-728-2755 By appointment always and you shoot in private.
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03/23/14 01:43 AM
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I was in great shape until the quail left the rolling plains. I ran the hunting on a 35000 acre ranch, had a house and a 20 run dog kennel. Did some guiding but mostly hunting with my friends. It was a great time and I hunted about 45 days a year. I retired in 2001 so I had about 9 great years after retirement and about 15 great ones before retirement. I have been blessed to have owned some very nice meat and have met a lot of great folks.
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They were group hunts. I kept a log that year and posted it on this forum. I don't remember the exact numbers.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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03/23/14 03:21 PM
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My best friend has a tail
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My dream is retire to SE KS or NE OK for the cooler weather quail hunts. Plus land is much cheaper there.
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03/23/14 03:35 PM
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It my come down to field trials for the true bird dog man if the quail decline continues. I was lucky enough to have two champions just as I retired. They qualified for all the national championship trials and I made most of them. I was in Montana on Labor Day weekend and up north on Memorial Day weekend. My wife made a few trips with me. It gave us a little chance to travel together.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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03/23/14 04:44 PM
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My retirement location is not based entirely on my upland hunting, but my upland hunting factors in to a great extent. We've already purchased the lot where we plan to build, and I'm looking at some adjacent property for either sale or lease. It's just down the road from one of my favorite golf courses, as well. Also very near a boat ramp into a local bayou, and a very short drive from excellent saltwater fishing. It's just a few minutes away from where I duck hunt; and even fewer minutes from where I dove hunt and run my dog. Both my wife's and my doctors and dentist are ~ 20-30 minutes away. But the best part is that our grandkids will be ~ 20 mins away, vs ~ 1.5 hrs away.
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03/23/14 11:09 PM
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Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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03/23/14 11:59 PM
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I'll take a Black Female every time.
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03/24/14 11:02 AM
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At this point 7 years before planned retirement it's idaho. However the area I like has snow 3 months a year. Never lived in snow and would rather do without it. So to deal with it going to Arizona for desert quail will fix it. Of course I have to make my wife happy too. She is on board with idaho. But camping in a travel trailer for 2 months while I am hunting is a different matter
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03/24/14 01:15 PM
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Mine is based on saltwater fishing.
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03/24/14 02:30 PM
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Mine is based on saltwater fishing. X2. That is why I am looking at South Texas now. It seems to have it all; great bay fishing, quail hunting, dove hunting, great climates....then SE Montana is late summer and early fall.
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03/24/14 02:46 PM
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I am only 40 but I already live where I'm going to retire, right on the shore of Cedar Creek Lake. I only upland hunt a few months a year so I am in the perfect location for me. Lots of places around to work dogs on training birds whenever I want & some of the best Crappie fishing in the state. I ain't going nowhere.
Haven't had it in years but never spit any out. I am a sucker for happy endings and strapped cowboys.
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03/24/14 03:53 PM
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YOU ARE A LUCKY MAN. BE THANKFUL.
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03/29/14 01:49 PM
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North Dakota 5 months a year, back in Texas the rest. Pheasant hunting looms large.
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03/30/14 01:20 PM
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We've been building a rental property portfolio for the last 15 years in Abilene, Texas. Once we retire, we'll base out of Abilene. We're currently searching for property in MT, ID and CO to spend our summers at a higher elevation out of the Texas heat. We'll buy a class A and use it to migrate back and forth. Will start up north and bird hunt our way to Texas each fall.
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04/22/14 03:59 AM
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Hell yeah. We are planning on buying 100 acres and having a Deltec home built on it. I know that's not a lot of land but it's plenty for me to do some bird hunting and deer hunting on it with my bow. Going to have a pond stocked for fly fishing and a couple of pens for hunting on the property. Then we have a house up north where you can't go 10 miles without seeing places to hunt. Hoping to also do dog rescue and get some training in them to make it easier for them to find homes. I am a gunsmith and plan on getting in to manufacturing so I need some land where I can build a small range on it to test stuff out. Hope everyone's plans on here works out for you all.
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04/25/14 04:02 AM
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This thread made me realize I might have a location for retiring shooters. I am now interviewing like minded shooters who might like to retire with me on my place. I plan to be here until I go toes up so I can offer long term. I do not want to spoil the specialness of my place so I am only looking for 3 to 5 other community members. It seems like a good idea and that others would like the idea of a community of like minded shooters who all know each other by name and would look out for each other. There would be many benefits of such a community knowing you could be free to travel and someone would take care of your hound and water your flowers and you would have no fear of anyone getting into your stuff while traveling. All common area needs would be tended to by management and a person's cost of living could be greatly reduced. I have had a few customers who pulled in with their nice RV's for a few days and they seemed very comfortable and enjoyed their stay. All community memebers would have access to the hunting and training fields, the quail, the shooting range, and fishing and hunting in season. We could have community greenhouse, gardens and storm shelter all of which I have now. I have heard of very expensive sporting retirement communities and mine would be priced for the working mans retirement community. If anyone is interested or knows of someone looking at retirement an d wanting to down size their responsibilities please have them contact me and we can meet and see if we are like minded enough to live in the same community. Shooterwalter
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www.poetryshootingclub.comGun Dog Training, Flighty Quail Guided/Unguided Quail Hunting Group Events/Parties 700 Yard Range CLOSE TO DALLAS Take a youth shooting 214-728-2755 By appointment always and you shoot in private.
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04/25/14 11:21 AM
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Sounds like a good plan. They have a pilots community with a runway just north of me, why not a dog community?
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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04/26/14 12:57 PM
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Hey shooterwalter...do I have to be as old as Oxner to get in or can I come on out now?
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