Movin from mexico to Louisiana

[Jamesconn]

I dont really live in mexico, just a block from it. My dad got promoted after his first year selling insurance with this company and now he is leading his own team he is making from scratch right now. He already moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, my mother and I are packing the house cleaning it up and getting it ready to sell.

We are hopin to put it on the market by June 1. When it sells we will be moving to Louisiana with my father and renting a townhouse, right now he lives in a super small apartment. I will only be there for 1 year or less, but im excited to leave the valley although everybody I know is down here ive spent the last 11 years of my life here, but it isnt my first move and I want to go up north to redneck country. Ive always liked Louisiana for the landscape and the food.

Right now I am packing up all my reloading/casting stuff cept for my turret press, 9mm components, and my lee reloading manual. All casting has stopped for probably a couple years till I get my own place (I have to destroy my reloading bench its 6x3ft and too tall to fit through the door) it is really solid and im proud of it but now I can make the second one better. Right now my lead "stockpile" can fit into 4- #10 cans Ive been trying to get all the lead I can since I started but the ranges down here arent cooperative. I am going to keep making 9mm till I run out of components probably 700-800 rounds till then then pack up the rest and thats it till I graduate Highschool and get out of the initial training for the Navy Reserve.

I'd love to go hunting nobody ever took me as a kid hopefully I can get a job before I go and make enough money for a Mosin nagant and a car.

[Olevern]

somebody from Shreveport hook up with this young man and take him hunting!

[rond]

Shreveport isn't that far from Texas, hope you can find a Whataburger nearby.

[starmac]

There is some pretty good squirrel hunting around shreveport, and you will meet some high school boys that will have places to hunt there I bet.

[Jamesconn]

Shreveport is 590 mi away from my current house. I am going to get guns in this order. Mosin nagant 91/30, M1A, Mossberg 590A1, CZ 455, RIA 1911

[pmeisel]

Good luck, and keep us up to date. You have a great attitude.

[Lead Fred]

Thar be hogs in them thar swamps

Just go to you tube and type in "pig bomb"

[starmac]

When they were building sam rayburn dam, I was pretty young, but we lived not all that far from shreveport.(on the texas side) I knew lots of old timers that worked for my dad, that owned nothing but a 22 and a single barrel 12 gauge. I knew a couple of old timers that hunted and grew a big garden for a living, they all did a little fishing and sold catfish to the local cafe's for the cash they needed. a single shot 22 and single barrel shotgun was all the firearms they needed to live.

When I was a kid I picked up an old single shot 22 from a church member for 10 bucks, and a single shot stevens 12 gauge with a 36 in barrel at a pawn shop for 25 bucks,, these counted for lots of tree rats and a few deer, I thought I was set for life for a until we moved to new mexico, and I needed a rifle.

I still have that shot gun, but the deal with the 22 was I would sell it back to him when and if he ever got out of a money bind, so he bought it back a couple years later, and I picked up a glenfield semi 22, which wasted a lot of ammo before it was stolen. lol

[akajun]

To bad your not moving to South LA, we have a good Junior Service Rifle program in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Youll like S'port my inlaws are from there, Bossier City actually. Panola Rifle and Pistol Club in Texas is 45 mins away they have a 600yd range, Back Towards Natchitoches is Long Range Alley, 1000yd range.

Might want to check out Bayoushooter, the LA forum.

[Jamesconn]

I would love a range that lets you berm mine and pick up brass and hills outside, but dad liked indoor airconditioned pistols ranges I doubt he will ever shoot another rifle or shotgun in his life. My mom likes revolvers my dad prefers semi autos. My brother im still trying to convince him he needs more than they lever 22 we both got when we were 8. I just want him to get a mosin and 1911. My sister is using the excuse of havin kids in the house not to have guns.

I do my best to get everybody I know to have atleast 1-2 guns especially women

How are the ranges up there?

[CLAYPOOL]

Set a good example in your actions and the way you respond to other people...Then you are muture acting young man will carry the day in the future...i think the state you are moving to will have a "LOT" more hunting and gun stuff going on...respect other peoples thoughts even if you don't like them..

[Junior1942]

You're moving to a hunter's paradise. Start looking here: http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/wma There's FOUR Wildlife Management Areas within an hour's drive of Shreveport plus several parcels of the Kisatchie National Forest. I would gladly take you hunting, but I'm 2+ hours SE of Shreveport.

[SciFiJim]

(I have to destroy my reloading bench its 6x3ft and too tall to fit through the door)

Instead of destroying your reloading bench, try to sell it locally. Any sturdy reloading bench would make a solid work bench for someone. Put the money away until you have a place and then use the money to buy the stuff to build another.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

I hope your move brings you to a better place.
I love reading your posts...a entrepreneurial soul, you are.
I recall you have mentioned MN.
If the Navy Reserve or other endeavours bring you to MN
I'll surely help you out, if I can ....(range mining and other lead scrounging).
Jon

[troy_mclure]

Shreveport is currently a pretty rough town, lots of "urban persons" robbing and mugging.

i rent a bedroom in a house, i cast in the garage or back porch, and have a 2'x2' reloading table i use. where theres a will theres a way.

[Jamesconn]

Lol i live on the border it cant be worse than this. I should have more guns when i get to Louisiana.

[walltube]

James,
Travelled through your present home area, not much green to be seen. Where you are moving to now is GREEN! Even neighboring Texas is green. Greener yet in Mississippi.:mrgreen:

Junior and others are spot on with places and opportunities to fish and hunt. Enjoy and good luck to you.

Take Care,
Wt.

[Junior1942]

James, take a good look on that link I posted at the Bodcau Wildlife Management area NE of Shreveport. 35,000 acres, I believe. Several primitive camping grounds. You can stay two weeks in those campgrounds. Take a bucket for poop and use it. One of my all time favorite camping spots was the Little River Wildlife Management Area some 15 miles from my home. The campgrounds are brim full on opening weekends, and not full at all other times. In cold weather, you'd be alone or almost alone.

Hunting hint: for squirrels go to the point where the campers/hunters leave their 4-wheelers and then start walking. That point/spot is loaded with squirrels who hide when the machines are coming and come out when the hunters walk away. For deer: no need to get in the woods until the other hunters start coming out of the woods. Deer hear the morning hunters coming so they hide in their favorite thicket. When the hunters give up and start out, the deer come out. So find a hiding spot and say in it from circa 10am until circa 4pm when the hunters return for an evening hunt. My brother lives beside the Bayou Beauf Wildlife Management Area and he duck hunts the sloughs and holes. Many times he's observed the deer coming out of thickets to eat as the hunters are coming out of the woods.

You could put together a car-camping kit for nothing or almost nothing. Sleep in the car. Erect a tarp so you can sit under it and watch and cook over the fire.

[waksupi]

Junior, you have to poop in a bucket?

[Jamesconn]

Ive crapped in holes before if you dig the hole right you dont need a seat and you dont have to deal with a bucket full of ****

[Junior1942]

They require you to take ALL human waste with you when you leave. In the Little River Wildlife Management Area, you dump your bucket or plastic bag in a big dumpster near the entrance. Digging a poop hole will get you a ticket and an escort to the gate. Think about opening weekends--100+ guys in a small primitive campground and 100+ little--and shallow--holes every morning..... You'd soon regret stepping off a trail. But maybe by now they've started putting a portajohn in the camping areas. I haven't camped there in about 10 years. However, I loved camping there because you can catfish in the river about three steps from your tent.

[Three-Fifty-Seven]

humid !!

[waksupi]

If there was 100 guys all in one camp going hunting, I would be hunting another spot, to hunt! The very thought gives me the shivers.

[walltube]

I was just down there last Friday making deliveries in Mission, Alton, Edinburg ... Very green, and humid !!

you are correct. Wife and I were a wee bit NW of Brownsville. Like 'El Paso' wee bit. Duh, teach ME to ignore the Rand-MacNally again. :mrgreen:

Green, humid or whatever , the coming months in NW LA are a much. much better place to be than Weslaco.

Don't get old,
Wt.

[walltube]

Forgive me, but I just cannot envisage this scenario. A hunting camp with 100 humans bedecked in Real-Tree camo all doing you-know-what into a zip-lock baggie; all the while under intense scrutiny by LADWL&F agents looking for an errant **** missing the zip-lock baggie? I dunno!

Bobby Jindal should be real proud of his Agent's dedications to duty.

James, are taking all this in? And I apologise for the meandering off-topic stuff above. But get used to it anyway..;>)

LMAO in MS,
Wt.

[MBTcustom]

Jr. s advice to sleep in the car and stick it out when everybody else goes home is good info! That's how I got started. 1987 dodge Dakota 2WD climbing stand and a bow MLer and a 30-06. I was a danger to the local wildlife!
I saw things that no one has ever seen too. I was sleeping in the truck in south Arkansas when we had that huge meteor shower. I was awakened by hundreds of coyotes baying all around everywhere! I got out of the truck, and it was bright as day from the light of the meteors. I wouldn't trade that night for anything, and I only got to see it because I decided to stay all week and sleep in the truck when everybody else packed up and left on Sunday. Good times!
Good luck with the move, and I hope you dont have to wait 2 years to do any more reloading.

[Freightman]

We only have one public hunting area around Amarillo, and I wouldn't be caught out when the sun comes up on opening morning. It sounds like a huge battle off in the distance, knew one man a teen age boy shot in the hip and the bullet went out the front dead center, ruined his married life and standing to go to the bath room. I will not hunt where there are that many guns I am a coward I guess.
You wouldn't think you could get lost in the Canadian River breaks but every year their is a search for a lost party or person some with dire results. When it is 70 when you go hunting and sun shinning and then when you are miles away from the car the temp drops 70 degrees and the snow blows sideways it gets a lot of "Hunters" in deep do-do fast.

[Junior1942]

If there was 100 guys all in one camp going hunting, I would be hunting another spot, to hunt! The very thought gives me the shivers.The kid doesn't sound like he has $500 to $1000 to join a hunting club. I was trying to explain to him how he could effectively and safely hunt for free on a WLMA. Basically, it's a matter of staying home or in camp on opening weekends or hunting after the nimrod city guys come out of the woods. I've camped many times at the WLMA I mentioned and had 4,000+ acres all to myself. So can he.

[starmac]

After the opening weekend the crowd likely thins out considerably. What I used to do in places like that was use a pero and even if you just get a mile up or down the creek, you are out of the crowd, and can always set out a line or two to have your meals while camping.

[Junior1942]

.......because I decided to stay all week and sleep in the truck when everybody else packed up and left on Sunday. Good times!.....And when they leave on Sunday, they leave the firewood they dragged out of the woods. By Monday, you have a week's supply.

[troy_mclure]

also most people dont walk more than 500yds from the trail. you get deep into the woods and youll see much more game.

[44deerslayer]

Good luck on your move hope you get the guns you want plus a few more