I'm considering a new job that would take me from Texas to the Pacific Northwest and was thinking how fortunate I am to be able to hunt in Texas, especially the Hill Country. Not that the NW won't offer ample and different opportunities, as well as great fishing and quicker access to Alaska and BC! But the year around hunting in Texas in fantastic.

My friends and I have had a 5,300 acre lease since 2005 in Edwards county. We use it year around. It's low fenced and we have not introduced any animals on it. We have great facilities - a 2 bedroom, 1 bath 1,200 sq ft cabin that we have extensively renovated, satellite TV, commercial range and outdoor grill, wifi, fire point, spring fed swimming hole, walk-in cooler, large covered cleaning station, a barn, shipping containers and a new modular building with 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, and living/kitchen - so we can accommodate a lot of folks comfortably.

I was out there this weekend and saw: numerous white tails, hogs, turkeys, fallow, axis, sika, aoudad, one bull elk, coyote (dammit) and numerous smaller critters like foxes, porcupines, tree squirrels, rock squirrels, and even a feral cat (he has 6 lives left, missed 3 times).

God Bless Texas!

I have never lived outside Texas, never wanted to. Not being rude but I have stated many times that I cannot imagine what it would be like to not be a Native Born Texan.

With that said, for someone with a chance to improve their life and the lives of their family, moves sometimes have to be made.

Do what you think is best, A Texan can always come back home.

Best of Luck with your decision.

I have never lived in TX but go there a lot on business. One huge disadvantage TX has the lack of public land.

Not sure what you pay for that lease, but in northern MN you can lease land from paper companies from almost nothing. You don't have exclusive use, but you can build a cabin and a sauna.

On the other hand, no state tax in TX!

My Texas roots go back to the 1850s, but I am also proud to be a third-generation Oregonian. I can understand your love of the Hill Country though. On some visits to Baylor while my daughter was an undergrad there, I got to explore part of the Hill Country and found it fascinating and very alluring. I think having a hunting lease and cabin there would indeed be very close to heaven.

If I do move, I plan to buy a small tract of land in the Hill Country. Need to have a "Texas Home"!

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Originally posted by Austin Hunter:
I'm considering a new job that would take me from Texas to the Pacific Northwest and was thinking how fortunate I am to be able to hunt in Texas, especially the Hill Country.

I'm not sure that I would trade what you have for the PNW. It sounds like you have a great set-up.

If you do make the move you should keep your lease, even if you will only make it back once or twice a year.

You could have the best of both worlds.

Oh, I plan to keep the lease. The other members will finally have to do some work.

I live in the hill country...outside Blanco. I grew up in west Texas and sure like it. I am 5th generation Texas as my family settled here from Germany on both my mothers and Dads side. I have lived other places..Colorado, Washington DC,to name a couple,but when I started my family Texas was home and having my family around me and my family is important. I have never had to lease land as my family have been land owners since the late 1800s, and we still have our family place in Coke and Runnells county..I have paid for plenty of hunts,( nilgai,axis,ect) and really enjoyed them...Texas is a great place, but I shure could be talked into northern AZ, West slope of Colorado,ID,western South Dakota...

Texan by birth, and choice,

Ed

There are other great states for sure but Texas isn't the fastest growing state in the country without reasons.

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Originally posted by fla3006:
There are other great states for sure but Texas isn't the fastest growing state in the country without reasons.

I wouldn't wish that any any state(except maybe NY). I can guarantee those new residents will not share your views.

If you doubt me just ask Oregon, Washington or Colorado.

Speaking as a native Oregonian, Mr. Brown could not be more correct about new residents NOT sharing traditional Oregon views. Our neighbors from Chicago were horrified when I killed a turkey on our five acres a couple of years ago. We had so many turkeys in the neighborhood that they roosted in our carport. Don't ask me about the deer I did not dare safely shoot, or the bears wrecking our apple and plum trees. I would not wish liberal out-of-state Democrats on Texas, either.

Oh we have more than we need already in Texas. Austin is full of libtards and wierdos, and inner city Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio need to get thier collective heads out of their azzzes as well.

JG, I was "afeared" o' that ...

The PNW is not a bad place to be, either. Airlines go "home" if you need to.

If you need someone to fill in on that lease-----

Let Sean have your lease, I know I'llget and invite!

You can take the boy out of Texas, but you can't take Texas out of the boy.

I am a 10th or so generation of Texas cowmen and Texas Rangers..I moved to Idaho 31 years ago, I still miss Texas and I will be buried there, got a couple of old Rangers that promised me that!

Except for the Idaho bunch, all of my family lives there and they are many in numbers, some ranch and some are in one business or another. I visit them during deer season!

God Bless Texas

We recently purchased 66.27 acres of a rocky hill in Kerr County. I am in the middle of high fence on three sides. My immediate neighbors and I have no fences. I have White-tail, Axis, Fallow, Sika and I think an Elk. Lots of pigs.
Yep, No Place Like Texas! Especially the Hill country!

Be sure you get your Lifetime license before you leave Texas.