Looking Back

Creeker

Creeker

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In 1980 I purchased my place at Dry Creek. Looked like this then.

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Creeker

Creeker

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The pictures are on a DVD somewhere. I sold Dry Creek 2005/2006 after building a new home there in 1996. I'll try to find them.
 
Creeker

Creeker

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Raised my 2 girls there. And it was a great place to shoot. I didn't hunt a bunch even though I do enjoy hunting. I just don't go after it like many. And it was very quite there. At night I could hear nothing but the creek running.
 
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Creeker

Creeker

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Thanks guys. It was very peaceful. Hated to sell it but it was time for a change. Lived in town here for the last 14 years but it's only a short drive to shoot or get in the woods or river. Miss the quite though & hate the light pollution. That's why we purchased the Copper Head.
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

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Nest egg isn't quite big enough to buy that kind of isolation and still be within comfortable proximity to medical services. I'm just looking forward to not being able to see my neighbor's house.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

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A friend who lived way out in the woods in Fla years ago said, "You know you are far enough from your
neighbor if you can take a leak off the front porch and nobody cares." I laughed, but it isn't a real
bad benchmark. :):rolleyes::D
 
Ian

Ian

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Being able to ahoot a .30-06 off your front porch, at two in the morning, and nobody cares is MY idea of being isolated enough. Got the take a leak anywhere I want thing covered, like most will never be able to afford the other. I'd be pretty happy if I could live where I never heard a rooster crow or a dog bark, but that might never happen either.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

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I have a friend, although I haven't talked to him in several years, who used to farm 80,000 acres in KS and east
CO. I wasn't on the trip, but some guys went out to shoot long range with him at his place. He had a house
trailer that he had all his reloading gear set up in, and he shot from there. Typical flat, nothing to see west
KS ag ground. The friends asked "What direction is safe to shoot?" Noting no berms or hills. His comment
was "Don't shoot the trailer." After a few quizzical looks (I am sure thinking, well, hell, I knew not to shoot the
trailer) he clarified. "You can't get a bullet off of my land no matter what you do. So the only harm you can do here
is shooting the trailer."

There you go Ian. Shoot a .30-06 in any direction at any time of day and night (except at the trailer!) and you
are OK. :)
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

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Dad had a friend who owned 13,000 acres near Paso Robles, CA. Went up there a few times and hunted quail. While I know Dad had a trapper's model '94 and model '95 Winchesters that nearly always went camping with us, mostly what we shot there was 22 LR, 25-20, 32-20, 44-40, .410 and 12 gauge shotgun.
 
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