Where would you guys live ?

[Shakes.602]

AS Long as it is a Wooded, Secluded area with Neighbors you only see through Binocs!! I HATE LIVING IN THE CITY!! But, Its Better than a Tent!

[GRINCH]

This is an easy one for me I'd move back to Oklahoma and spend time with my Family,Alabama is great but it's not home.

[Bakes168]

Michigan is a great place to live! Good weather, almost no poisonious snakes or spiders, lots of deer, fish and small game. And the UP (upper penninsula) is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen!
I might move to the UP, or out west somewhere, or Alaska.

Does it seem to some of you guys like people seem to be moving into less populated areas, and wild or unpopulated places might be disappearing?
I pray the day doesn't come when there isn't many wild places left to go to, or the day when there is a shopping mall over the beautiful woods over our property in Northern MI.
But maybe I'm just paranoid  :rolleyes:  

Bakes

[rdy2hnt]

As a lifelong resident of Illinois I have to caution any of you thinking about this state. We do have an abundance of deer and turkeys, the fishing isn't too bad either. The only problem is that the city of Chicago pretty much runs the rest of the state. I can't begin to tell you how "big government" oriented this state is. My advice would be to move to Missouri and hunt Illinois as a non-resident.

As far as the question at hand goes, Alaska gets my vote. God willing, my wife and I will live there in four years.

[wvbuck]

rite at home in west virginia of course. but id love to go explore wyoming with the bow too.

[Arwin]

Michigan has great deer hunting but limited on other species. Out west seems target friendly for elk, mule deer, pronghorn. I would also like to live where there are abundant hogs to hunt. I would like to live wherever there is the most variety of game to pursue, longest season, and wide variety of terrain to beat the crud out of my body!!!

[72highboy]

I've spent a lot of time and done a good bit of research looking for the same place you are describing. I hate to break the news to you but it doesn't exist. I think that 20 years ago places like Idaho, western Montana, and Eastern Oregon or Washington might have been what you describe. But since the Tech. boom and the influx of money into the northwestern cities like Portland and Seattle every Microsoft executive has a cabin there and these towns are all a little too expensive for a regular working guy. If money is no concern then I would still move there....most those kind of people don't hunt anyway, so hunting opportunities are still good, cost of living is just ridiculous. Maybe with this recession and housing market decline these places will affordable again....but I doubt it. Maybe I am just bitter but it doesn't bother me too much to see a wildfire burn up some of those 10,000 square foot cabins every summer, especially when I know they are second homes. I'll probally catch heck for that last statement     :rolleyes:  If I were you I would stay in Alaska. An old man in North Dakota once told me "40 below keeps the riff-raf out"

[goodolboy94]

i would have to go with colorado or monotana for the elk and bears

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Oregon, Idaho or Cali

[Horne Shooter]

I've been to most of the 50 states and hunted quite a few of them as well.  Texas is really hot right now...REALLY HOT but it's just a great place.  I legally carry a gun, I hunt year round (had thirty hogs sighted on our lease yesterday) and I can fish both in fresh and saltwater.  The deer hunting here is great and the season is long. People are friendly and it's home.  I do though get why people like places with better mountains and seasons.  Here we have early, middle and late summer-those are our seasons!  It's good to see so many of us like the places that we currently live, I think it has to do with the fact that because we are bowhunters we are content people to start with!

[bbassi]

Nobody yet has mentioned the Black Hills area of SD/WY. I've been there several times and often thought of relocating there to run a family campground/hunting/fishing/snowmobiling business. The game is abundent and other states and game are close by. I guess that's my retirement goal. LOL.

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Horne shooter, I lived outside of Houston for 14 years. That area is really HOT & Humid. But you do have a nice short winter for 2 months.

I live in Jersey now, Hell I was born here, anyway... We can only hunt small game,water fowl, Turkey & Deer with a bow. We have bear, but can't hunt them yet. ( One day someone will get killed , then we can get a season.... How sad is that) We don't have hogz that we can hunt, yet. They are coming.... The States I picked are ones in the 48 I would like to go hunt in.... Alaska is my dream State. I want to move there so bad, but this thread was about the lower 48. Hell I want to hunt in Hawaii.

[kojac]

I could live alot of places and be pretty happy but I really love montana. (and way to much stuff to hunt for a working man)

I would however choose to live a little more remote if my resources could aford it.

The only way I see myself moveing is if the move would allow me to support my own a piece of hunting ground.

Happy huntin'

[Lslite]

The Texas Hill Country would be very high on my list,but northern New Mexico has always attracted me also.Anyone have advice on the area up around Chama ?

[Talondale]

I like where I'm at, but wouldn't mind more land and a trout stream.  Other than that I'd prefer somewhere where I have enough money and time to go visit a lot of the other states.  As mentioned, no state has it 365.  I loved AK and spent 9 months there but wouldn't want to spend a winter there, or in most of the western states for that matter.  Rtherber is on to something, although the gas for those looks like it'd be expensive.  I'd love to travel place to place sampling the best of each and just have one place to settle down and rest and enjoy the family between trips.  Seems I was born to be retired but haven't found a sponsor yet.    :D

[mrgreenhead]

Well i live in ny and thats were ill stay becuase this is gods country !! We can trap hunt and fish to the fullest thats why all the jersy ,maryland , vermonters are buying up our land and we can even get it cheap anymore:( If you all want to visite look me up from sept to jan and ill be in the woods somwhere in ny ,Art

[MI_Bowhunter]

I kind of like it here in MI.

My second choice would be Alaska.

[BillW]

I drove through the Texas Hill country and it looked great. Can someone tell me more about it? Weather season and land prices? Email is OK or here to.

Thanks,
Bill
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[Chad Panattoni]

Id live in fedonia ,az right next to the kaibab plateu, so I could see all those bucks .My second choice would be anywhere in wyoming

[Burnsie]

Take the climate of San Diego, CA and move it to just about anywhere else and I'd live there.  Seeing how that's not possible, I plan on ending up back in Northern Wisc. Beautiful country, nice summers and winters don't bother me (love to ice fish, snowmobile..etc) I like having 4 distinct seasons and a variety of game to hunt.  Northern Maine has always interested me as well.
Burnsie