Leaving CT for TX (and never going back!)

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This is the second THR member in two weeks who's moving here from the north. Keep em coming!
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Congrats. I am typing this from Austin right now, because I am down here to visit a house I bid on. It is so exciting to be leaving the NJ nonsense behind. Good for you! CT and NY became worse than NJ during the political nonsense that went on over the last two years. As a kid, I remember seeing Uzis for sale in Mulvey's sporting goods in Monticello, NY (his is before 1986). It is sad how much things have changed.

That highway suggestion looks good, as I am avoiding MD as well.

I will be living in the southwest, off Mopac, so I am looking for places to shoot without going through the city. Austin Rifle Club and Capitol City Trap & Skeet look nice, but I'm wondering if something heading toward the hill country would be closer. Gotta figure that out, but I drive about 45 min to the range right now so at worst it would be the same.
 
My sister in law says the only thing better than being southern is being Texan. :)

I moved here (Virginia) 20 years ago from Mass. Love it. Good laws,friendly people.
advice,
be polite
Say sir and ma'am
go to church (optional)
buy a pickup
Work hard and tell the truth
 
I believe the ranges mentioned by Shrinkmd are on the East Side of town closer to Manor. There is Lone Star in Lockhart to the southeast and Best of the West out in Liberty Hill to the northwest. BOTW has a 1,000 yd outdoor range. I am not aware of any open ranges on the southwest side of Austin. There are a couple of Red's indoor 100 yd ranges, in Oak hill and Pflugerville.
 
bikerdoc said:
My sister in law says the only thing better than being southern is being Texan. :)

I moved here (Virginia) 20 years ago from Mass. Love it. Good laws,friendly people.
advice,
be polite
Say sir and ma'am
go to church (optional)
buy a pickup
Work hard and tell the truth
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I like that and it is pretty much the truth .

Good luck on your move . I could never live in a state like Conn. .
 
bikerdoc said:
My sister in law says the only thing better than being southern is being Texan. :)

I moved here (Virginia) 20 years ago from Mass. Love it. Good laws,friendly people.
advice,
be polite
Say sir and ma'am
go to church (optional)
buy a pickup
Work hard and tell the truth
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Moved to TX last year
Be polite - always
Say sir and ma'am - yes sir, yes ma'am
Go to church (optional) - not for me
Buy a pickup - done
Work hard - been there, done that, now retired
Tell the truth - absolutely
 
All, thank you for all of the warm welcomes to TX and the advice--all noted! Can't wait to get there over the next couple of months(just finalizing some works stuff). Hope to meet up once I get settled in Austin.
 
txblackout said:
texas does have forests and the hills are big enough to be a pain if you are walking around. In the hill country the forest is extremely dense and not really possible to navigate without trails.

The issue is no public lands for hunting, it is all private. You need 50 acres to be able to shoot your gun indiscriminately in populated counties.

I do hunt hogs in a forest near austin and here are some things that are great

1) it is always hog season
2) you can hunt at night
3) you can hunt using night vision/thermal
4) you can use any caliber

In addition you can hunt from helicopters using machine guns..
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There are millions of acres of public land available for hunting in Texas. If you're a duck hunter you have all kinds of access.

I'm not sure how a resident of Texas would be able to use a CHL from another state if that person is no longer a resident of that state.

Welcome neighbor.
 
Austinite here:

The "liberal" part of Austin is just the University area, everything else is just like the rest of Texas. It's a great city to do just about anything.

As a former NYer, I have some more advice for you... get ready to sweat in the summer.
 
Soon to be Austinite as well. Is it a bad idea to put TSRA or NRA stickers on the car? I don't want to be harassed. Does it really invite extra car break in risk? Now that I will be in America I was hoping to relax about that kind of stuff.

Also, any good recommendation for bolt down small pistol safe? For a small car.
 
A lot of people are leaving states like Illinois and Connecticut and going to states like Texas.

Generally speaking, the platforms that reflect an anti-Second Amendment leaning among the elected politicians go beyond simple anti-gun sentiment and encompasses an ideology that generally empowers the state and restricts individual freedoms as a whole.

Besides just getting sick of having their Second Amendment Rights violated, people get sick of being regulated to death and taxed to death and they move.

I tell my kids that they should go to college out-of-sate, they should leave Illinois and never look back.
 
Another plus for coming to Texas and Austin area, but perhaps not within the.Austin city limits: Lake Travis is within 15 feet of being full. The lake has not been that full since early 2011. So many lake shore businesses like restaurants, bars, and marinas went bellyup despite the general economic boom in Texas and Austin. I really miss Carlos and Charlies.

shrinkmd
I wouldnt worry about expressing yourself via bumper stickers. Austinites wear their hearts on their bumpers. Back in the day I carried a movie prop f.g./ wood BAR on my "Easy Rider" rifle rack in the back window of my '53 F100 for giggles and got stopped by LEOs in a bad part of north Houston. Nowadays thieves will break into your car and take chewing gum packs. Thus the end of the gun rack as memorialized in the cosmic cowboy anthem "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother"- "...gotta gun rack, goat ropers need love too sticker..."
 
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5 years ago I left the People's Republik of Maryland. I took a detour through Oklahoma and now live in Dallas.

I'm damn glad to be here and am saving money to by a small ranch up in the north country.

In short, welcome home brother.

No Sir, I'm not a natural born Texan. But I did get here as fast as I could! And I really cannot imagine living anywhere else.

As to the suggestions from Bikerdoc, Well those are just good common courtesy. And dangit. Every man needs a pickup truck. :D
 
No Sir, I'm not a natural born Texan. But I did get here as fast as I could! And I really cannot imagine living anywhere else.

As to the suggestions from Bikerdoc, Well those are just good common courtesy. And dangit. Every man needs a pickup truck.
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@twmaster thank you for the welcome! Already got the pickup crossed off the list, I'll be driving it down.

As you said, I'm not a born Texan either, but definitely got out of the North as fast as I could, what a great feeling!
 
It's a little bit of a trek, but the Sam Houston National Forest is decent size if you need to get back into a forest. It's nice out there in the Fall, Winter, and Spring. Summer gets a little stifling since wind doesn't get to you as well. Welcome to Texas, we're glad to have you. Austin is a blast (I'm 28 as well) and you're moving to one of the best areas, IMO. If I wasn't O&G, I'd head that way.
 
It's a little bit of a trek, but the Sam Houston National Forest is decent size if you need to get back into a forest.
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I'll definitely be checking that out @bullnettles, thanks for the heads up. I might miss the forests sometimes, but definitely not going to miss the sub zero temperatures during deer season.
 
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