shooting on the prairies

aheppner

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this has been my shooting spot recently, it's nice in the spring before the grass is long and then its good again after the neighbor swaths the grass to bail it.

this pic im 220 yards from my target but i could back up till the next mile road, it is a little shy of a mile because there is a correction line but im never going to shoot that far anyway

sometimes i forget how very flat it is here till i see a picture

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I want to move somewhere that's like the pic with foot hills in the background. Preferably with lots of gophers running around.
 
aheppner said:
nope Manitoba, west of Winnipeg
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ahh, looks a lot like some hay fields here in sask. id say probably the best part of being a farmer is having thousands of acres to shoot on with no one around for miles. too bad that i didn't own a couple of quarter sections up north for my bear and whitetail hunting needs! hopefully soon though. i guess the PFRA will have to do for now.
 
ultimate_monkey said:
having lived in the prairies of AB, i can honestly say i will never give up my mountains and oceans, but damn i wish i had that much flat land for shooting on
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I'm the opposite. I will never give up my prairies. I don't like to feel cooped up or boxed in by mountains or oceans.

Plus Southern Alberta is God's Country. 2 hours to the USA, 1/2 hour from the Rocky Mountains, lots of flat prairie to shoot on, BIG SKY. Love it.
 
Recce21 said:
I'm the opposite. I will never give up my prairies. I don't like to feel cooped up or boxed in by mountains or oceans.

Plus Southern Alberta is God's Country. 2 hours to the USA, 1/2 hour from the Rocky Mountains, lots of flat prairie to shoot on, BIG SKY. Love it.
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Well said, I agree completely.
 
Been thar dun that...

Up north is where it's at... Our gophers have antlers an they weigh 1000lbs+.


Never could get used to the wind on the flat lands near the Rockies...

Nice place to visit in the summer tho.
 
I'm trying to talk the wife into moving to the Lethbridge area but so far it's a no go.
 
When I took my hunter safety course in New Zealand, one of the test questions was "why should you never shoot an animal on the horizon?" I wish I had that picture to show them.
My different was verry different from theirs.
 
Hotwheels81 said:
What part of the country are you in now?
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Sask. It's nice where I am, but I do like the southern part too. Here's a pic from my dining room window. I shoot about a mile away in that direction down a field road (into the field).

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Recce21 said:
I'm the opposite. I will never give up my prairies. I don't like to feel cooped up or boxed in by mountains or oceans.

Plus Southern Alberta is God's Country. 2 hours to the USA, 1/2 hour from the Rocky Mountains, lots of flat prairie to shoot on, BIG SKY. Love it.
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I agree with the first part, as for Alberta it`s full of people that couldn`t handle Saskatchewan.:D I have been to the rockies and up north in heavy bush and i still like living on the flat prairies. In a lot of places it`s not as flat as it appears.
 
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