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Born here and never left. LOL and Aint goin no where anytime soon
Not new to Wisconsin
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Welcome to our little but slowly growing group. What part of the state do you hang out? I'm in Cottage Grove, just east of Madsion.
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On the lakeshore near Manitowoc, and of course up north in fall.
Somewhat familiar with the Manitowoc area. Lived up in Green Bay for a couple of years. Manitowoc was within my wandering on weekend range. This was back around the turn of the century so a lot has probably changed over the intervening years.
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Changed? I suppose, I mean 25 years have elapsed, but change is inevitable, and, what is nice is the old saying the more things change, the more they stay the same, and things don't change in small town/city Wisconsin all that much. Its why I can make the statement " Aint goin no where anytime soon" I do like it here.
Well I've lived in Cottage Grove since 1988. Back then the population was around 486, I was surrounded by corn fields with pheasants, rabbits, turkeys and deer in my back yard. It's now almost 9000, and the corn has been replaced by homes and more people than I care to deal with. Haven't seen a pheasant, turkey or deer in the back yard in years. In my case I would love to go somewhere else, preferably out in the middle of nowhere and miles away from Dane county and it's petty politics and ridiculous taxes.
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Ridiculous taxes have been a staple in Wisconsin because of petty politics and the good citizens sitting in a pot of warm water as the flame was set higher and higher. Before they realized it the water was boiling, they were to far gone and the politicians got their donors repaid.
When I was growing up in a small town we could name everybody's families not any more of course. But what was nice is we hunted wherever we wanted, just walk out the door and go. There was plenty of land for everybody. Big families many kids out and about. Those same hunting grounds that yielded plenty for all are now posted so one person can have it all to themselves. Ownership, leasing, all just locked up private land now.
But I still live close by, I can still hunt turkeys rabbits and deer. They tend to stop by on my 3.26 acres and I tend to be there, at times, when they do. Pheasants are now more glamour game, with the DNR finding a way to make money from us, on them. Was a day when sportsman clubs would raise them with members money and then give the members a quota of the birds to let loose where they chose, YES, before the season. Pheasants thrived because of the members, not the DNR. As kid's, we always couldnt wait for that day in October, for noon to get here (yes the good old stupid noon opening), to get out there and just wander through the fields and fence lines to get that limit of one bird per day, that opening weekend. When Dad did shoot one, it was an honor to carry it back home. Those days are gone, and those days, everybody in todays society that tell me what they feel is right or wrong can and never will, comprehend. Its why I do what I do, and believe in, still to this day.
When I was growing up in a small town we could name everybody's families not any more of course. But what was nice is we hunted wherever we wanted, just walk out the door and go. There was plenty of land for everybody. Big families many kids out and about. Those same hunting grounds that yielded plenty for all are now posted so one person can have it all to themselves. Ownership, leasing, all just locked up private land now.
But I still live close by, I can still hunt turkeys rabbits and deer. They tend to stop by on my 3.26 acres and I tend to be there, at times, when they do. Pheasants are now more glamour game, with the DNR finding a way to make money from us, on them. Was a day when sportsman clubs would raise them with members money and then give the members a quota of the birds to let loose where they chose, YES, before the season. Pheasants thrived because of the members, not the DNR. As kid's, we always couldnt wait for that day in October, for noon to get here (yes the good old stupid noon opening), to get out there and just wander through the fields and fence lines to get that limit of one bird per day, that opening weekend. When Dad did shoot one, it was an honor to carry it back home. Those days are gone, and those days, everybody in todays society that tell me what they feel is right or wrong can and never will, comprehend. Its why I do what I do, and believe in, still to this day.
THREEDFLYER
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Welcome from Marinette County!
