click here to see the area around tracy, stockett, sand coulee and centerville, southeast of great falls, montana. i am lucky enough to live in tracy and love the area!

Front Range of Colorado north of Denver. If you don't know what its like, ask the 2 million Kalifornians who moved here...

Been there and seen that country...still ain't figured how anybody could think Texas is bigger than Montana.

Me, except for when I travel it's low, flat, and wet. Good place for learning how to move like smoke through the woods, everybody's eyes are on the same level. Yes, we do have Winter down here, on the Jan. 7 each year. And bugs. And Gators.

Prairie, rolling hills, and river bottoms. The greatest thing about the midwest is, it's only a days drive to everywhere else Great pheasant hunting, LOTS of deer.

DGK

Whats the country like where I live? Old I guess is the best answer!



From my house I can see Chirk Castle which is over 700 years old and still lived in by the same family who had it bought it in 1595!







Overlooking Llangollen, the next village up the valley, we have a another castle known as Dinas Bran which is today is a ruin.







The remains were see again date back to the 13th C but local stories associate the site with an older fortification which is linked to the legend of King Arthur.



If we go the other way, we come to the town of Oswestry. It too had a castle but all that remains is the artificial mound it was built on known as a baily.



Just outside the town however is the remains of an Iron age hill fort which takes us back in history another 1500 years from the more "modern" castles which dot the landscape along the Welsh/English border.







On one of the farms I shoot over the present day stone barn has Roman foundations and stone walling and is a "listed" building. The site has therefore been used as a farm or house for nearly 2000 years!



One boundry of the farm is formed by Offas Dyke, an earth ditchwork defencive feature which runs for nearly 200 miles along the Welsh/English border and built in the 9th C by the English King Offa to keep us Welsh out! .



Today the route is traced by a long distance foot path (which I have walked) and this takes you through so of the most scenic and remote parts of Wales:



















Chester the small city where I work was pretty much put on the map by the Romans and the present city walls have large stretches of Roman foundations and stone walling. Some of the shops in the city have basements which are Roman showing the site has been in occupation for neary 2000 years!



My office over looks a partially excavated Roman Amphitheatre which dates back to 86AD





Unforetuneately only half the site has been excavated as the other half is covered by a 17th C former Convent, itself a listed building!



I could go on, but AR is for hunters not local history buffs!



Regards,



Pete

Just a few more pics to show some of the country side not far from where I live.

The first is Pistyll Rhaeadr or Rhaesdar Waterfall which is one of the "Seven Wonders of Wales".



At 240feet it is the highest waterfall in Wales and considerably taller than Niagara Falls which is a mere 176feet !

About 40 minutes from where I live is Snowdonia National Park which is renown for its outstanding beauty.









Again I could go on, but there are just so many beautiful places in Wales

Regards,

Pete

Pete
I can see Wales from the top field on my farm. Luckily for me the Bristol Channel is in the way!

I often think it would be a great place from where to direct mortar fire onto invading celtic hordes on the Severn Bridges 4 mile away.

Deerdogs,

You know why there are so many mountains in Wales?

We have pinched that much land off the English, we've had to stack it!

Regards,

Pete

Here are some picks of my secret hunting spot in Alberta Canada Eh!, my friends 1250 acre ranch, the picture with the Motorhome is Crown land wich borders my friends ranch, and our local shooting range. this hunting area is about 1 hour from my house.

Mostly wood with a few farm feilds now days years ago mostly farms. Last couple of mornings had deer and blk bear wander through the yard. Two deer this morning looking at one as I type this. I belive 3 bears this year so far. Some fairly large blks of forest rolling hills ect.

All most frosted last night 33degress this morning going to be a cold wet summer in Northern Wis. this year.

Pete E, thanks for sharing! I've always wanted to do a backpack (walkabout) in Wales... you've whetted my apetite again!

Regards,

BA

Well, we may not have the beautiful hills of Mt., wonderful scenery of Wales or gorgeous mountains of Colorado, but Texas has some great hunting!






http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid109/p2c3c90ba9064b1d68f760d0d1e8d9144/f92fadf7.jpg

These whitetail deer,gemsbok and wildebeast are on a 5000+ acre ranch about 65 miles west of my home.

Have not transferred pics of the springbok, zebra & blesbok on this same ranch or the eland, scimitar horned oryx, nilgai, blackbuck, waterbuck, and lechwe on an 11,000 acre ranch less than 60 miles north.

What we lack in scenery is made up for in abundance of wildlife.

Regards,
hm

Silver Fox, I have flung much led there!

Chuck

HI,

I will be in AK this august and I have made my mind up,will move to that area in Dec.I think the other area I like is where JAYCOCREEK lives central or north Idaho,as I like mountains and woods. I see that many areas that I see here are also very nice,Kev

>One more thing to IHONDA

It's LHonda.

>from the post above anyone will see how rotten >and uptight you are,

If disagreeing with a slight against my place of birth and chosen home is what you feel is rotten, then yes, you bet I am. As far as being uptight, sure, I'll give you that too.

>some people post there opinions

Indeed they do, and rightly so. Was there a point you tried (but failed) to make? Other than pointing your finger at me and calling me a bad man, that is? By the way, a free spelling/grammar lesson for you: 'there' = depending on usage, a noun, such as a place; an adverb, as in 'there goes so and so, or as an interjectional phrase, i.e., 'there you go making an ass of yourself Kev'; their = possession, and they're' = they are. As stated previously by me and illustrated in your message, MA isn't perfect--the public education some here have received, for example, is simply atrocious.

>and you were the one to go after them, this is >the point I am trying to make about many who >live in this area,

No, that wasn't your point at all. You said that NE was unfriendly towards hunters and filled with evil confusing laws and that there was nowhere to hunt.

>don't worry about what I say on hunting forums

I don't worry, but I will correct you when you speak in base and false generalities about my home areas.

>as I sure don't care about others,

For a guy who doesn't care about what others think, you certainly seem to spend a lot of time posting thoughts on your disdain for NE and your supposed plans to move to Alaska. Y'know, I wonder...if you can't hack it here because of all the evil people, complicated laws, nowhere to find to hunt and whatnot, just how exactly do you intend to handle the transition from being a CT/MA hunting flunkie not even familiar with the opportunities you had nearby all your life but were not even willing to find and explore when you arrive in your newly adopted home?

Hmmm...

>GET A LIFE

Why Kevin, I do believe you're getting testy. Maybe if you post some more of your redundant 'I'm moving to AK' drivel, someone will offer to pat you on the head and make you feel better. I however, can't help ya'.

Cheers!

Leighton

Boston, MA, Goddamn it.

HI,

Ihonda, you are the one that jump on everyone else not me, you are the one that started to talk junk to me when I post the facts about MA and CT,so do not try to spin it around. I guess you got it from Teddy and John Kerry,they good at spinning too. I guess my spelling is not up to arrogant NewEngland snobs like you, this is what I have been talking about many like you in this area think you are smarter and better than everyone else and know your ways are the best.One more thing let me spell it out for you jackass,I am going after you jackass,no one else,but you jackass.
Ihonda since you are so conerned about your home land MASS, I am from that crap hole also, let me get you real concerned, shove Mass and bean-town and Teddy,John Kerry and I will also give you MRS. Clinton up your ass, now what,I think I have made it very clear what I think of you and Mass,Kev

45 minutes south of me in the Sonoran Desert National Monument.



2 hours northeast on the Mogollon Rim.

LOL. Good comeback, Kevin! Just one question: how's it feel to be wannabe' and a phony?

flat, very flat

HI,

Only in your eyes,and you do not matter, arrogant snob,kev

I would like to post some pictures from the mountains where I hunt here in Norway, but I do not know how to do it.... Could someone please give me some pointers? And to those of you that read the heading: what is the country like where you live? as : feel free to throw muck at your fellow hunters. Please stop. You are embarrasing.

If you go over to the "Hunting Reports - Africa" forum, the very first thread explains how you post pics...its very easy, but you need to find a site that will "host" your pics first. Again, I think there are some suggestions in that thread,

regards,

Pete

Just go there and follow the instructions.photobucket.com