Moving

I did that a few years back. It sucked. Though, one nice fall day I saw a sharp rooster take flight and cross a River then took a right turn and flew right by me.:thumbsup:

This was just 15 minutes outside of Boston (millennium park/cutler park). There was a (very large) nice area of wet lands and some warm season grasses. It was absolutely beautiful back there. A "slice of the mid-west."

This is a photo of one section of the park where the pheasant flushed.
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Now that I'm back home, I can walk one block down my street and listen to pheasants cackle and once in a while catch them coming into roost. I love that.:cheers:
 
Cope, adjust, make lemonade and hit the Superslab.
The world would still spin....birdhunting, backyard or not, is never all there is.

Only a slightly different response to living in a state for which the traditional gamebirds hit a near zero end game decline steeper than a horse's face.
 
Probably just drive farther than now.
 
A few years back I was pushed to move to our companies headquarters and said no. A career limiting decision, but living in an area with all of my outdoor hobbies within minutes, and a good environment for raising our kids was a higher priority than climbing the corporate ladder. I ended up changing jobs and it's all worked out for the best.

Visiting California, friends who know I love to golf were trying to tell me I'd love it there. Heck no! I'm a golfer, but it's only one of my hobbies. You can have California. My cousin has to drive 2 hours to get to where he can pay to hunt and further to where he can hunt wild birds. Also has that for a daily commute and hardly sees his family, much less being able to hunt. Take away hunting and fishing and you may as well castrate me.

One of my daughters is preparing to move to southern CA. A career move. Good for her. But damn! I'm going to miss her and also glad it's not me. Tomorrow after work our regular Wednesday group will play nine. Thursday after work the pup and I will chase some birds. On the weekend we'll hit it hard. Sorry, but you can have those places where I couldn't hunt.
 
Tbear said:
I would have to have some sort of upland bird or I would not move there.
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Yep, it's a deal-breaker for me. I was willing to move to MN to "move up" at my job, but I wouldn't consider moving to a state with no birds. I suppose if the last job in the country was in a state with no birds....well nevermind, why wouldn't a guy just get Obama to send him a check if he couldn't find a job in a state with birds, right?
 
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kansasbrittany said:
Yep, it's a deal-breaker for me. I was willing to move to MN to "move up" at my job, but I wouldn't consider moving to a state with no birds. I suppose if the last job in the country was in a state with no birds....well nevermind, why wouldn't a guy just get Obama to send him a check if he couldn't find a job in a state with birds, right?
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LOL, Careful KB, you don't bite that tongue in cheek.

Whats this talk of moving to a state with no Upland hunting? Blaspheme:eek:

I'd go nutz. I could not live on 2 or 3 trips out of state to hunt a season. If it was not for Quail down here and lots of them I sure as heck would not put up with 6 months of 100 + temp. I really miss Pheasant hunting, but 2 or 3 Trips out of AZ a year, to pheasant hunt, and the quail hunting here keeps me sane. I like to waterfowl hunt but as I get older I grow less able to put up with the wonderful (sadistic) weather that makes for a good hunt. :cheers:
 
Ranger Rick said:
A few years back I was pushed to move to our companies headquarters and said no. A career limiting decision, but living in an area with all of my outdoor hobbies within minutes, and a good environment for raising our kids was a higher priority than climbing the corporate ladder. I ended up changing jobs and it's all worked out for the best.

Visiting California, friends who know I love to golf were trying to tell me I'd love it there. Heck no! I'm a golfer, but it's only one of my hobbies. You can have California. My cousin has to drive 2 hours to get to where he can pay to hunt and further to where he can hunt wild birds. Also has that for a daily commute and hardly sees his family, much less being able to hunt. Take away hunting and fishing and you may as well castrate me.

One of my daughters is preparing to move to southern CA. A career move. Good for her. But damn! I'm going to miss her and also glad it's not me. Tomorrow after work our regular Wednesday group will play nine. Thursday after work the pup and I will chase some birds. On the weekend we'll hit it hard. Sorry, but you can have those places where I couldn't hunt.
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Theres more quail and chukar in SoCal then you could shake a stick at. Head east to the Imperial Valley and there are your wild pheasants. I guess what I'm saying is I would figure out some way to hunt upland birds anywhere I might live even if the hunting was tough.:cheers:
 
quail hound said:
Theres more quail and chukar in SoCal then you could shake a stick at. Head east to the Imperial Valley and there are your wild pheasants. I guess what I'm saying is I would figure out some way to hunt upland birds anywhere I might live even if the hunting was tough.:cheers:
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quail hound, I knew that the hills in southern California, in most years have good quail numbers, but I didn't know that the wild chukar range extended into southern California, that is great news.

Look at the Audubon N. American wild chukar range below. Does that map accurately depicts the southern California chukar range? Thanks, just curious.
http://www.audubonbirds.org/species/Birds/Chukar.html
 
A large number of wild pheasant hunters and wild pheasant enthusiast live well outside of the present wild pheasant range.
Wild Pheasant Range:
http://www.audubonbirds.org/species/Birds/Ring-necked-Pheasant.html

We need to expand the N. American wild pheasant range. If we want to increase the odds of moving into an area with wild pheasants, we must expand the wild pheasant range.
If it was a wise idea over 120 years ago to import authentic wild ringneck pheasant (sometimes called common pheasant or True Pheasants) from abroad to N. America. Knowing the positive impact that this bird had on upland hunting a century later. Why is it not wise to import authentic ringneck True Pheasants now 2012 and beyond.
Why is there no well organized grassroot effort by the thousands of pheasant hunters to get authentic wild pheasants (wild-trapped adults or wild eggs from the wild fields) imported from the wild native range abroad to N. America.
 
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Preston1 said:
quail hound, I knew that the hills in southern California, in most years have good quail numbers, but I didn't know that the wild chukar range extended into southern California, that is great news.

Look at the Audubon N. American wild chukar range below. Does that map accurately depicts the southern California chukar range? Thanks, just curious.
http://www.audubonbirds.org/species/Birds/Chukar.html
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No the range is a bit wider in SoCal than that map, I think this is more accurate.

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/hunting/uplandgame/docs/ChukarSoCal.pdf
 
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