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I had a 1000 acre lease to myself in Coleman Texas. Big bucks, tons of quail and doves.I had it for 25 years. I miss it. Owner died, kids sold it.

private land rice field, Morehouse Parish, La. (one of the first goose hunts I ever made with my son)

I grew up pheasant, grouse and woodcock hunting after school. I could walk down the street, jump into an abandoned piggery, very overgrown good for pheasant/rabbits, cross the farm fields on the other side into great grouse/woodcock cover behind the farm, make a loop and back out through the piggery and home.

Now, it's all houses.

Damn, hanco! This brings tears to a glass eye, it does.

Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest. Combined 1.7 million acres. Yep, I do have to share it but so few people get off their truck seats, they don't really affect me much. I can't see why anyone would limit themselves (here) by hunting private land.

1000+ acres of private land up by Seiling, OK that has been in the same family since they seized it in the land run.

Never did kill much but saw lots of game and a few big'uns. Rolling hilltops planted with wheat with cedar infested draws and creekbottoms.

Was a beautiful place just to sit on a high spot and watch for an entire afternoon.

For the best goose hunting, a buddy of mine's father and a couple of other guys used to lease a pit blind between Easton and St. Micheals, MD. The old guys used to hunt in the middle of the week and left Saturdays for us. Nice guys. We almost always got our limit before noon.

For deer, Poolesville, MD about a mile from the Potomac River. These were taken from my tree stands.



Back in 1978 I shot my first deer about 100 yards from this stand.

600 acres in Crawford County, Crossingville, Pa. Now State Game Land 269. It was our fish hatchery. Pa took it by eminent domain in 1969. They took our fisheries at the mouth of Walnut Creek in 1973. Love that eminent domain. Grrrr.

Family ranch in Llano County, Texas.

We didn't have the biggest bucks. But my Granddad would take me deer hunting every year.

It is him and those hunts that were the best!

I'd give anything to have just one more day doing that with him.

Best place for ducks was the north end of Milford Lake in Kansas. We used to limit out on greenheads like it was nothing.

Best place I have lived for hunting, variety and public land, has got to be Arizona.

Kodiak is magical, but the damn bears are a pita.

So..."best place" is where we are right now....nothing like killing critters on your own place.

Ten minute walk from house to the back stand.
We give thanks every day.

Recent bucks for wife, son and me...

On a 320 acre piece of land near Gladwin, MI, in a crappy blind made of 2x2's and burlap, next to my dad. Never got a big or even decent buck there, but it really doesn't matter. He's gone since 2003, I miss those days.

Next best is on a 160 ac plot near Mesick, in a much better blind, when I can get my daughter out there to hunt with me. Will be there after Christmas for the late antlerless.

Old70

broomd, that is super uber, my Man. My back yard is similar.

There is little public hunting land in Texas.

Tossup between the Hoback River area in Wyoming & the Arbon Valley area of Idaho.

Completely different areas in terrain & hunting style but both great in their own way.

MM

Landelani Lodge in South Africa.

Taken mostly by eminent domain for dispersal to the coal industry. For the twelve years I managed that property and ran the safari business there. It was a giant piece of land with so much game we never really even knew what we would find next there. I caught Several Pangolin there and brought them back to the lodge to share with visitors and hunters.

One American could not really understand the fuss, and asked his PH standing there what is the big deal about this? That PH said to him " most of us live a life time without ever seeing one of these" Another said to him, it's almost like what you would feel if somebody brought in a bigfoot in your country!

We also had wild dogs on this property which were thought to have been shot out 40-50 years ago. We would frequently see Aadrvarks there as well. It was the best most crazy wild place I had ever hunted up to that point in my career!

The best place that I ever hunted was for pheasants on a farm in SW North Dakota. I saw more pheasants on that three-day hunt than I have in the rest of my life.

I use to hunt elk in the West Elk Wilderness NW of Gunnison. Good hunting spots come and go. That one isn't a good as it use to be. But is was great for a couple of decades.

KC

Used to own a property near Orchard, CO. Some of the finest duck and goose hunting you could ever imagine, along with pheasant, dove, mule deer and whitetail deer.

Limpopo. South Africa

Done lots of expensive stuff in neat places. The best: freely roaming the farm fields and woodlots of Virginia after woodchucks, mourning dove, bunnies, squirrels, and quail as a high school kid in the 60's.