Retirement

[Russell870]

How many people after retirement have moved to a state for hunting and what was the outcome. Thank you in advance

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

I'll start by saying my wife and I are both native Californians (I' am 5th generation whose relatives came during the gold rush). We are college educated and knew we wanted to leave when we retired. California had just changed too much. We spent 20 years looking in the western states. We narrowed it down to Wyoming and Colorado. We both like to camp, fish and hike....and I love to hunt too. We wanted a rural lifestyle to spend our retirement. We love our home and area.
Lander, Wyoming and the 4 corners area of Colorado were our 2 finalists. My wife kept saying that Wyoming was too cold and windy and I liked both areas. We bought some rural acreage near Cortez, Colorado in 1995. We retired in 2000 and built our dream home. We love it here but things have changed a lot in 26 years. We don't have any worries about money and still love a lot about the area. Colorado has seen a big change in it's politics and that has effected almost everything we like to do.
If I had to do it again, Lander would be where we landed. We are in our 80"s now and still like to do our hobbies even tho I have a problem getting hunting unit I have hunted for 30 years.

 

[jimh406]

The point about retirement for me was that I didn't have to live where the work is. But, you also have more time for everything including hunting. If you are like most unless you are really young, you'll find you don't hunt that much. It's a factor, but I don't think it's a major one.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

The point about retirement for me was that I didn't have to live where the work is. But, you also have more time for everything including hunting. If you are like most unless you are really young, you'll find you don't hunt that much. It's a factor, but I don't think it's a major one.

Yeah, I have found I don't hunt a lot more than when I was working, maybe a little more. I now more hunt and fish during the week when it's less crowded.

 

[Phaseolus]

I'll start by saying my wife and I are both native Californians (I' am 5th generation whose relatives came during the gold rush). We are college educated and knew we wanted to leave when we retired. California had just changed too much. We spent 20 years looking in the western states. We narrowed it down to Wyoming and Colorado. We both like to camp, fish and hike....and I love to hunt too. We wanted a rural lifestyle to spend our retirement. We love our home and area.
Lander, Wyoming and the 4 corners area of Colorado were our 2 finalists. My wife kept saying that Wyoming was too cold and windy and I liked both areas. We bought some rural acreage near Cortez, Colorado in 1995. We retired in 2000 and built our dream home. We love it here but things have changed a lot in 26 years. We don't have any worries about money and still love a lot about the area. Colorado has seen a big change in it's politics and that has effected almost everything we like to do.
If I had to do it again, Lander would be where we landed. We are in our 80"s now and still like to do our hobbies even tho I have a problem getting hunting unit I have hunted for 30 years.
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Just curious, what changes in Colorado have really affected you? I'm Colorado native and also on the west slope. Lot's more people moving in but I can't think of a politcal action that has affected me or kept me from doing things I want to do.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Just curious, what changes in Colorado have really affected you? I'm Colorado native and also on the west slope. Lot's more people moving in but I can't think of a politcal action that has affected me or kept me from doing things I want to do.

The population increases in Boulder-Denver area are mostly liberal and they control the legislature. In the last 20 years there has been lots of legislation concerning guns. Do you go to gun shows? There were almost none this year. New regulations regarding retailers selling guns are making it very difficult to sell them. The same situation on hunting. I could go on and on, but not the place to do it.

 

[One300wsm]

Just curious, what changes in Colorado have really affected you? I'm Colorado native and also on the west slope. Lot's more people moving in but I can't think of a politcal action that has affected me or kept me from doing things I want to do.

Other than going liberal and trying to ban certain types of hunting and guns nothing at all. To be a native of Colorado you’re sure nieve to what’s happening in your state.

 

[Rich M]

We’re moving to a diff state for retirement. Not exactly for hunting but have deer quail turkey on the property. More for the country living.

 

[noKnees]

Just retired, wife to retire in 2 years. Will be moving primarily for tax reasons ( and gun rules and politics) I hunt whitetail in a nearby state and travel for big game (mostly Canada but am starting to go west and Alaska.) so I hope to up the elk/moose/bear hunting over the next 10 years, but the move to a new state is really to move to a more rural area inline with or beliefs and values.

 

[Poser]

The amount of people who actually follow through with this plan vs. the amount of people who talk/dream/plan on it for decades and back out at the 11h hour would be an interesting statisical comparison.

 

[Rich M]

The amount of people who actually follow through with this plan vs. the amount of people who talk/dream/plan on it for decades and back out at the 11h hour would be an interesting statisical comparison.

Probably about the same as everything else - some folks like to think about "someday" and others plan and work toward it.

One big plan changer is health.

 

[CHWine]

We left CA four years ago with zero regrets. Both of us born and raised there. 40 years ago I was proud to tell folks I was from CA, now its just sad to see what its become. Not only politics, but the cost of living made it pretty impossible to retire there. We moved to Pinetop AZ and love it here. People are mostly conservative and polite. Every time we go back to visit I just shake my head. Homeless on every corner holding a sign, roads falling apart and crazy traffic. Plenty of outdoor activities here but I will say I still can't seem to draw an elk tag!

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

We left CA four years ago with zero regrets. Both of us born and raised there. 40 years ago I was proud to tell folks I was from CA, now its just sad to see what its become. Not only politics, but the cost of living made it pretty impossible to retire there. We moved to Pinetop AZ and love it here. People are mostly conservative and polite. Every time we go back to visit I just shake my head. Homeless on every corner holding a sign, roads falling apart and crazy traffic. Plenty of outdoor activities here but I will say I still can't seem to draw an elk tag!

We really liked Payson, which is close to Pinetop. We were concerned about the water situation there and crossed it off our list even tho it was 3rd on the list.