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I miss the owner of that place. His name was RCSparks. He told us great stories of the depression years. He told us about how tough it was to work in the Boeing plant in Fort Worth during WWII.
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I live in Fauquier County now but some of my fondest memories were fishing Stoney, Little Stoney and Passage Creek. We used to stay in a cabin near Basye and as kids would watch all the adult men drink whiskey, play cards and swear while my buddy and me hid in the loft sneaking cigarettes during the opening weekend of trout season. Loved deer and turkey hunting along North Mountain and camping at Wolf Gap and along the road over the mountain to WV. Damn that's going back to the mid 70's ! The place in the picture is part of Little Crease Moutain in Fort Valley. The owner who is my cousin's father-in-law had a cabin here and another further into the "fort". He has since sold both. I remember walking through the mountain some mornings and it being so cold I would do jumping jacks to keep my feet and hands from going numb. The older guys would get back to the cabin and have all sorts of fanciful tails of what they saw or what had happened years before. At the time I hung on every word they said. When we stayed overnight they would snore so loud, I would swear the cabin was going to shake apart. Wood stove, kerosene lamps, no electricity, or running water. It was quite an adventure for a kid raised in the suburbs. I do miss it.
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"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
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Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Awesome.
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Best place to hunt? Outdoors. If you hunt indoors, they kick you out of the petting zoo......
An unemployed Jester, is nobody's Fool.
the only real difference between a good tracker and a bad tracker, is observation. all the same data is present for both. The rest, is understanding what you're seeing.
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I... but the best place, without question, was outside Toad River BC. Unbelievable place loaded with a wide range of critters... That is one helluva'n area. I sat on the side of the Alaska Highway at Toad River one April afternoon and watched herds of sheep, moose, caribou and mountain goats all on one mountain side and flat. I honestly thought I was seeing things, there were animals everywhere of every species. Incredible. Wrapping up the hunt descending just off the Alaska Highway.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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I... but the best place, without question, was outside Toad River BC. Unbelievable place loaded with a wide range of critters... That is one helluva'n area. I sat on the side of the Alaska Highway at Toad River one April afternoon and watched herds of sheep, moose, caribou and mountain goats all on one mountain side and flat. I honestly thought I was seeing things, there were animals everywhere of every species. Incredible. Wrapping up the hunt descending just off the Alaska Highway. Yep, that is the spot...heaven on earth for the hunter.
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I got to go 3 times to Oceaneering's 6000acre high fence ranch in south Texas. I didn't kill a whopper but a couple of the other guys did. I saw several giant bucks, but they weren't old enough to shoot. Very cool place.
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The "best" places I've hunted have also been the worst places I've hunted, depending on the hunt. All said, I enjoy South Texas the most overall...and yes, that is a trip for me. I live 830 miles from El Paso.
The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.
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For big game or upland........I think I'm settin' purty good right here.
Slave
P.S. For fatties? The dance floor at any bar with an active one..........yer welcome.
Have Dog
Will Travel
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About 30 miles north of Dryden Tx on 7,600 acres. Indian Creek springs started on that ranch. When hot, we just took a plastic chair and beer to the springs, walked into water neck high and sat down to drink beer. Cooled you off for sure. The springs ran into the Pecos east of us.
Wonderful 6 years on that lease.
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I said Zambia earlier, but when I was a kid it was anywhere when I had my Model 61 Winchester with me. Probably better than Zambia at the time. Before that it was my Red Ryder but those were halcyon days.
"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
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SE Washington, Blue mountains and surrounding area is my favorite spot in WA. I've enjoyed some other places.
Western Nebraska. SW PA just for the memories it holds.
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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Malangani, now part of the Bubye Valley Conservancy.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Western ND
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Alaska for us covers it all. Just never knowing whats around the next corner or hill. Lots of other things to do along with the hunting.
Scenery is beyond any description for us.
The folks are great generally speaking.
I"ve been to quite a few other places and AK still tops the list.
Plus, on any given hunt, we very well have walked where no other human has set foot.
And we are not the top of the food chain. All in all it makes for a grand time.
Alaskan amber or scotch or bourbon sitting in a reclining chair at camp watching the northern lights in September, listening to the moose cut up, and the lynx roar and the wolves howl... wow.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Lived and hunted in Alaska and down south but my best is still here in North Dakota on my own property. My daughter who is now 25 years old is why. We started when she was 14 and still do it. Nothing exotic just plain old whitetail. ED K
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Never hunted a bad place.
Makes no difference if I'm hunting squirrels, birds, or traveling for deer and antelope. If I'm hunting, I'm happy.
Some of my fondest memories are of the Uncompahgre south of Cimarron, Co., A family grain and cattle operation near Lanark, IL, the Bayfield peninsula of Wisconsin, near Washburn, and a 17 acre squirrel timber near Morrison IL.
"Chances Will Be Taken"
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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. I still hunt a place north of Seiling. We need to get together sometime.
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