Well worth the watch:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/4CDFxeB7Y-s

Texas is a atate I could live in if South Carolina ever folds. For now, we have those same rights and I'm lucky enough to be able to walk along a country road with a shotgun while hunting and have people in cars wave politely and smile...wishing they had their gun and could join me. Maybe that's the reason Northern gun companies are moving here.

Excellent.

I could live in Texas too but while I can, I will continue to live in AZ...our guns laws are less restrictive than those of Texas. For instance in AZ any legal resident of the U.S. can carry concealed and/or openly with no need for a permit of any kind...(of course, we are speaking here of folks who can legally possess a firearm in the U.S.).

Also the great majority of our state is public land, open to anyone who buys a hunting license and tags....and even those are not needed if he/she is just shooting varmints or vermin.

Not dis'ing Texas (I got married in Gainesville) just prefer the greater freedom of Arizona.

I lived in New Mexico for 26 years, Texas for 22 and counting, and the rest of the world for 19.

In New Mexico I could open the window, sit on my bed, and shoot prairie dogs. If I wanted to shoot jack rabbits, get in the car, and go do it. I could hunt deer anywhere in the state I wanted.

Two days after arriving in Texas, the first time; 1970, I stopped my truck, bailed-out with my rifle, fired at a coyote and had a rancher in my hip pocket in about thirty seconds. I never could find a place to deer hunt that didn't cost an arm and a leg.

As far as the rest of the world, I hunted with smuggled guns, home-made rifles, WWII ammo, and often at night. I turned-down many hunt offers I knew to be illegal; reserved for royalty, politicians, and the very rich. I preferred to hunt with senior military or police officers, assuming they offered some "legal" protection.

I'll continue to live in Texas, but I may sneak back across the New Mexico line on occasion to hunt. Like AC, I think it is a little freer out west, right up until you hit the California line.

I knew there was a reason I always respected your posts Kensco...sounds like a similar life to mine.

I've lived 22 years in AZ, 10 in CA , 4 in Hawaii, 26 in OR, 2 in OK, 17 in other countries of the world, and less than 1/2 each in WA, & GA. When living outside the U.S. I hunted mainly with high government officials and/or heads of national police force forensic labs.

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I think it is a little freer out west, right up until you hit the California line.

Right on the money!

Texas was a Republic. We were independent. Why we joined the Union is beyond me.

But, after we did and after we lost the second war of independence, we should have asserted that independence.

Look at the maps. We remain two countries.