Looking at moving to Lubbock TX for my work. What can you tell me about the area and hunting opportunities around there? I figure I'll have to do a lease, what can I expect to pay.
There are ditch chickens north of you, waterfowl north west and west in profusion (sand hill cranes, ducks, geese); east off the cap-quail, white tail deer and hogs; south west, mule deer and antelope. Nothing close to Lubbock but sandstorms; get a dust mask and prepare to replace your wind shield every few years.
Sort of like Mongolia except they speak English and no gers !!!!
The True Meaning of the phrase Llano Estacado as christened by the Spanish explorers...
Be sure to check out the original Texas maps that stretched Texas up the east side of the Rockies from the Rio Grande River to Wyoming that the US Gvt accepted in 1845 and then began chopping up Texas to make Texas didn't take over everything except California...and see where Lubbock fit in...
Is it true or not that the only thing in January between Lubbock and the Artic Circle is a broken down barbed wire fence outside Amarillo, or that you can see the lights of Denver at night by standing on the hood of your truck.
...who was the C&W / pop star singer with the famous/infamous line about "...Lubbock in my rear view mirror" ??
Why Bobby Seals of the 70's pop group Seals & Crofts sez he grew up with nuthin to do except stomp crickets and sing...
...and finally ...except for being in the Texas Panhandle not a bad place to be...'cause Lubbock really is in TEXAS.
OBTW Prepare to learn that "GUNS UP!!" has nuthin to do with firearms...and which side of the Mike Leach story you believe can be VERY important. Hook'em Horns Ron
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I was transferred to Lubbock for work for 2 years. I found it cheaper to fly back to Oregon to hunt than to pay to hunt in Texas.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
No you can't see Denver at night but you used to be able to see Clovis at dusk from the restuarant on top of the old South Plains Life Insurance building in downtown.
I was transferred to Lubbock for work for 2 years. I found it cheaper to fly back to Oregon to hunt than to pay to hunt in Texas.
This move is more than likely temporary as well, and I'll be traveling back to Colorado on a regular basis to hunt. Plus my job pays well enough I can probably afford a seasonal lease. There are things in TX that can be hunted that I can't get in Colorado. Plus my daughter who wants to hunt deer and other bigger game won't have to wait three more years for her to become of age in Colorado.
There's a 28K acres WMA 114 miles east of Lubbock called Matador which has some great hunting. Palo Duro and Caprock Canyons state parks also have some limited opportunities. If you buy the public hunting land permit it allows you to go out on quite a bit of both public and private land.
I went to Tech and liked Lubbock. Sounds like you have an open mind, keep it that way and you'll enjoy your stay.
Can't tell you about leases, I've been gone a while and have family land to hunt when I go back.
Regards, Bob.
I grew up on a cattle ranch and dry land farm in SE Colorado, so I know what dry, dusty, and windy are like, and still spend a lot of my free time time there helping out my Father who is 73 and runs 400 head of cattle without help most of the year. It wasn't much different then what I've seen of the OK panhandle around Boise City and on down to Amarillo only a lot less irrigation. I've been to Lubbock once on a drive down to Carrizo Springs TX for a hog hunt several years ago but it was a rushed trip drove straight through at night both times.
Had a couple of colleagues from graduate school who ended up on the faculty at Texas Tech. I used to visit them regularly in the fall and experienced some wonderful hunts for waterfowl and upland birds. There weren't that many deer around Lubbock in those days, but that has changed. Some of the best deer hunting in Texas these days is in the Panhandle plains and canyons.
People are friendly, too. You'll probably not want to stay there the rest of your life, but if you like to hunt you won't be bored.
Ben
Some days it takes most of the day for me to do practically nothing...
I grew up there. Yes on the wind & dirt, it is at its worst in the spring. One year when I was at Tech, during spring break, a humongous sandstorm blew through town. Imagine a town of 200,000, and visibility in the center of town down to 100 yards I maintain if that storm had hit when Tech was in session, thousands would have transferred.
Now for the good - moderate housing cost, mostly conservative, friendly people, and several decent gun shops. As others mentioned, there are hunting opportunities in surrounding areas. There's a decent new lake southeast of town, Lake Alan Henry, which should offer decent fishing, and skiing not too far away in NM.
The sandhill cranes migrate over town in the fall, and their weird chuckling call in flight is always memorable:
all we had to do when i was senior and spent one semester going to littlefield high school, was kill jack rabbits and prairie dogs, drag race and of course run over to Lubbock to the strip to buy booze.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
Lubbock or leave it, most leave. Good deer hunting in most directions but might have to go 1-200 miles. Good access to NM antelope if you can get permits and not a bad shot back to Colorado.
What really impressed me is when a rain storm collides with a dust storm and it rains mud balls.
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I maintain if that storm had hit when Tech was in session, thousands would have transferred.
