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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Mike Vines on August 21, 2010, 10:53:00 PM
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I was born here (Clarkston), lived all over the world due to my Dad's job, and me being in the US ARMY, but I was glad to move back to Michigan and have 4 very pronounced seasons.
Who else do we have in this wonderful state?
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Well Mike, I now live where you were born.
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I moved here to Garden City in 2004 after retiring in New York State.
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Just down the road from you Grapes...literally.
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South of Flint in the little town of Otisville.
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I'm halfway between Detroit and Toledo in Monroe.
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I moved to Idaho from Michigan in 1985 - my family lives in the Ann Arbor area; and in Iron River.
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I'm a wannabe...Does that count? My wife is from Kalkaska, and I would like to live somewhere with 4 distinct seasons. Out here we have 2-warm rain and cold rain.
RonP
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Battle creek all my life except for a short spell in Alaska :rolleyes:
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:wavey:
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Yup, Grand Rapids area. Lived in Ann Arbor for a few and Kalamazoo to a few too.
Matt
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Yup, I'm from Davison!
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Yep, born and raised here...
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It's funny so many are from the Clarkston area. My family owned the lake that was across from where Seymore lake road hits M-15. The lake with the old white ranch house. My family owned that lake from the 1950's until just recently.
I grew up fishing and hunting there.
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Grew up in the suburbs south of Detroit.
Live "up north" now. I`d go over the bridge if it wasn`t for starving to death.
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I'm in Wellston - - between Cadillac and Manistee. Might have 4 seasons, but that "white" one seems to be much longer than the others. Rumor is that lake effect is going to be bad this year.
Regards,
Dick :wavey:
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Yes sir, grew up in Drayton Plains. Mojo is that west of M 15, the huge cattail swamp?
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Fowlerville
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Yes I am born and raised....
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Born and raised also, I am living in the lakes area in southeast Michigan. My wife and myself would like to relocate in the northwest area of lower Michigan. :wavey:
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Yes. But there's a 20 acre lake there too, straight behind the white house, although it's tough to see from M-15. It's across the road from Huff lake. My family also owned property on the lake across from Lake Louise. I believe it's legal name is Long Lake, but we always just called it "the back lake". A buddy told me there's a develpoment there now that's basically stalled/abandoned due to the housing bust.
Frankly, I haven't been down there in about 10 years and I don't care to see how everything has changed.
Things have certainly changed around there. I remember as a kid, when we'd night fish for bass or bullheads and there'd be a car coming down M-15 every couple of minutes. After midnight, it could be 20 minutes between cars. Now you couldn't get out of that driveway due to traffic most of the time.
The only places to eat were the A&W, Renders restaurant and the Nickelodean, back when the the restauarant was in the front, where the beer store moved to. If anyone was around there then, you'd remember the nasty live Parrot that was in the old restuarant.
I remember the first housing development of "high end" homes that started off of I-75 and M-15. Back then I remember my dad marveled that anybody with the money to build such homes would choose to move out there, in "the country".
You can never go back to your youth, but my memories were so fond of that place, like a rural Huck Finn paradise, that I don't think I want to see it again.
The fishing and duck hunting was fantastic and the rabbit and pheasant was decent. Oddly enough, I remember the first deer I ever saw there, since there never was any deer there.
It was in the early 1980's and I jumped a doe while rabbit hunting. I couldn't believe it. Seeing a deer there, back then, was as unexpected as seeing a bear there. Of course, now there's deer all over down there.
The lake produced some whopper pike. The biggest was a 22 pounder that I caught on a July late afternoon in 1977, after seeing Mark Fidrych pitch a in a losing effort at a 1:00 pm start at Tiger stadium. Quite a day! LOL
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I live in Cheboygan right on the Straits of Mackinac, beautiful area if you are retired or a tourist, one of the worst unemployment rates in the country! Lot of repo houses cheap if anyone wants to move north! LOL
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I was born and raised in Mount Morris just north of Flint. I moved to Holland in 2001 and this is where I have been since. I still make it to the east side of the state to visit my family on occation.
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Born and raised in Pennsylvania, until I married my wife. She wanted to be closer to her family in Battle Creek. So 7 years ago we moved to Southern Michigan in the Battle Creek area (Hickory Corners).
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I grew up in Lansing, moved up to Manton in 1980 when my Dad retired, this is where he grew up. I'm 4th generation on the Old Home Place.
Eric
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Born and raised in Marshall and still have the family farm to hunt there. Currently living in Crystal in Montcalm County.
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Homer all my life
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Jeddo
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Marysville
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I grew up in Monroe--when there weren't any deer--and I now reside in Temperance. Peace!
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Grew up in Troy, now live in North branch, half way between Flint and Port Huron ish, about four miles from Lapeer state game area, lots of small game and a few deer too.
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Are any of you guys Masons ?
Probably not, this thread is still here.
ChuckC
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I moved "up" here in '01. I'm still a buckeye at heart. lol.
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I have lived on same block in Constsntine fo 48 years. Didn't move far from home.
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eaton rapids.
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Southwest of Big Rapids.
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:wavey: Grew up just a few miles south of the Big House in Ann Arbor, a little town called Tecumseh. Left for college and came back with the soon to be Mrs. Would like to head further north though, someday!
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Amazing all the guys who have chimed in, and that dosen't even include the countless others who are from this wonderful state who haven't seen this thread yet. I'm sure that our paths have crossed somewhere, and hopefully we will meet out in the woods and be able to loose a few arrows together. Happy hunting to all of you...And just think, we are all following in the footsteps of Fred Bear.
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Happy hunting!!! :D
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I've lived all over the eastern part of the state. Grew up in Bad Axe, settled in the Ann Arbor/Ypsialnti area for a while after I got out of the Navy. I now live in North Branch and work in Waterford. I've hunted the same chunk of real estate in Bad Axe most of my hunting life, but looking to move to Kentucky in a few years as soon as my youngest son is out of school.
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Grew up right in the middle of Detroit and now live just south of Flint.
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Grew up in Owendale, live in Swartz Creek now.
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Born and rised in Bridgeport, just outside of Saginaw. Lived there 41 years. When my job moved to Georgia in '96 I went with it. I do miss it
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Not too many here from the western side, born and live here in Muskegon, on the lakeshore!
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I grew up in Fowlerville and now I live in Howell...I didn't move far! :)
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Born in Highland Park, lived in various burbs of Detroit since middle school. Only 3 years out of state living in Chicago and Ft. Myers. And now live in north burbs a few miles south of Grapes. Safe and successful hunts to all this fall.
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Born and raised in Flint and still live there, but spent my summers in the eastern UP with my Grandparents at the family cabin. I still spend as much time as I can up there and hope to move there permanently in a few years.
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Newbie from Vassar, right next to Frankenmuth aka chickentown.
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Originally posted by Pokerdaddy:
Newbie from Vassar, right next to Frankenmuth aka chickentown.
I always prefer to go to Tony's instead of having chicken for dinner. Welcome aboard. There is a plethera of info here. Try not to digest it all at once, take it in pieces, and you will find yourself coming back more and more.
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Originally posted by Rick Butler:
Born and raised in Flint and still live there, but spent my summers in the eastern UP with my Grandparents at the family cabin. I still spend as much time as I can up there and hope to move there permanently in a few years.
Where at in the UP? I had a cabin in Trout Lake up untill 1999. Loved the area, just hated the drive just to do maintenance on another home.
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I've heard of Michigan..... :p
Waterford, Milford, Clarkston since day one out of St Joe's.
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Midland .......I love going to and hunting in far off places......but there is only one home for me...
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Yup, born & raised. Am in the middle of the mitt, out side of Harrison.
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Grapes, I'm 50 miles SE of the Soo and 18 miles east of Cedarville.
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I was born in MT. Clemens, my grandparents lived in Clawson while my Dad was in the Navy. Moved to MI, Rochester area, in 69, when he got out of the service, and stayed until 75, when we moved to Montana. I learned to shoot bows there, and enjoyed some great times in the Boy Scouts in the Michigan outdoors.
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Born in Detroit....Raised in Milford. My wife and I built a house in Hartland 11 years ago. We have three kids now...10, 6, and 2! :) Lots of memories here!
My father taught me how to hunt "Up North" in Lewiston....not a lot of big bucks, but to this day is still my favorite place come October! :wavey:
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Born in Grant, MI and have pretty much been in the Kalamazoo area since 1990. Love the seasons and all that Michigan has to offer.
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I have lived in and around Jackson county in south central Michigan my entire life.
To live in the Upper Peninsula would be a dream, I love it up there.
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Spent my 'WonderYears' in Dearborn. Made a swing through New England following my dad's job. Ended up back here in 1980 and been here since. Currently living in White Lake but once bow season starts I'll be spending as much time as I can at the 'Ubly house' in the Thumb.
Howard
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Born and raised on the family farm in Clarksville ,a little one horse town in between Ionia and Grand Rapids .
Cant wait for fall !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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grayling here. born in standish ,been in grayling 32 years, right accross the road from the Manistee river flies only stretch, biggest brown this year 24 inches caught on the hex fly at night, wife worked for the dentist that owned Fred Bears house, spend as much time as i can after the elk in the Pigeon river forest,either calling them in or hunting I should say help hunting them as I haven't drawn a tag myself in 27 years of trying . Love to go up and take people to call them in though. and if anyone gets lucky and draws a tag give me a call would love to help out. And if you want to go yourself let me know also be glad to direct you to some areas to find them. Know where some big bulls are right now and the next couple of weeks it's going to heat up for calling purposes. I've had elk bugleing to me in mid October as well while deer hunting.Oh yeah bears in the back yard getting the bird feeders if you don't take them down.good hunting this year everyone. yeah michigan sure is good for the soul.gib
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Originally posted by Gib:
grayling here. born in standish ,been in grayling 32 years, right accross the road from the Manistee river flies only stretch, biggest brown this year 24 inches caught on the hex fly at night, wife worked for the dentist that owned Fred Bears house, spend as much time as i can after the elk in the Pigeon river forest,either calling them in or hunting I should say help hunting them as I haven't drawn a tag myself in 27 years of trying . Love to go up and take people to call them in though. and if anyone gets lucky and draws a tag give me a call would love to help out. And if you want to go yourself let me know also be glad to direct you to some areas to find them. Know where some big bulls are right now and the next couple of weeks it's going to heat up for calling purposes. I've had elk bugleing to me in mid October as well while deer hunting.Oh yeah bears in the back yard getting the bird feeders if you don't take them down.good hunting this year everyone. yeah michigan sure is good for the soul.gib
I will take you up on that offer. I have been reluctant to put in for one, seeing as I don't know the first thing about elk, except they are bigger than deer, and don't live in the woods I hunt.
What is amazing is all the different cities and towns mentioned don't have much if anything in common except that there are guys/gals from each one of them with a common thread...Traditional Archery.
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:rolleyes: Born in Greenville and now live in Livonia.
I guess I qualify!
Josh
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Now live in your home town. Grew up in Farmington (long before there was a Farmington Hills, lived 20 out of 30 or so years in Europe and now retired in Greenville. Great town and lots of public land around plus the shooting club I belong to has about 70 acres.
Ron
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Born and raised in Grand Haven, yup...I'ma beach boy :cool:
I miss Michigan and all it has to offer, love the state. I want to travel and hunt in different places but I know I'll always end up back in Michigan where my heart is. We've got land up near Manistee and I love it up there.
Living in Southern California right now unfortunately.
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I wasn't born there or Lived there, But I was there for a few weeks and it is a Very Nice State.. Maybe one day I can get Up there for a hunt or 2.
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born and raised in Clarkston,moved north to Hillman,MI. for a few years now reside in MN.We get back to hunt Gods country as the father in-law calls it every now and again. Do miss it.
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I'll chime in...
born and raised right here in the big burg of Lake. Live about 10 miles from the house I grew up in. 2 brothers and lots of "expeditions"- grew up hunting, fishing, water skiing, snow skiing (behind the snowmobile)- its a serious conversation when we joke that we all made to adulthood....
Can't even begin to name the broken bones, and hospital visits....Married my high school sweetheart and now raising 3 of my own.
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I've lived in MI my whole life. Lots of guys from MI on here!
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Born in Grand Rapids. Been in Hudsonville the last 19 years.
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Well if any of you are going to Bass Pro Shops, just send me a PM, and if I get it in time, I'll come by to meet you. I'm just 3 miles north of there, or if you prefer, stop by for a brew or a little Maker's.
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Grew up in Laingsburg. lived in the U.P.(eh) and Montana. Lot's a places when I was in the USN. Now in OVID.
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Born and raised in Maple Rapids, MI. I am 27 and have been shooting a recurve/longbow strictly for six years now. Puts a whole new twist on the meaning to close quarters. No other way to hunt for me.
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Born and raised in Kalamazoo, and still here.
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QUESTION!!!
So with all the Trad hunters in Michigan, why have I NEVER run into another Trad hunter in the woods in over 20 years of hunting!!!!?????
We must just be sneaky!
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Good question Overspined!
It have run into other Trad hunters only twice.
Once it was two guys from Pennsylvania, and the other time it was Ron Pittsley and his son.
That was the first time I had ever laid eyes on a Predator. (it was camo)
I also remember finding a beautifully done up cedar shaft laying in a two-track. I still have it. I quickly removed the Zwickey Eskimo from it, and put it to work, but whoever the owner of the arrow was, he/she sure had a short draw.
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Also born and raised in the great state of Mi. I have been on the western side of the state all my life in the Hart area except during college and a short time out in AZ, too hot for me. I really love this state the seasons and the hunting. We dont have alot of different big game like some of the western states but here you can litterally hunt out the back door. I have killed several deer in site of my house, last year I shot a 8 point watching my wife and little girls in the hot tub. I own 2 buisnesses and things are tough right now and I hate the thought of relocating so hopefully things will get better. If any of you guys here are in the Hart, Silver lake area give me a holler I have lots of targets and room to stump shoot. And a Taxidermy shop with stuff to look at.Don
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Pretty new to trad archery so I haven't contributed any posts in the several months I've been a member of the site, but here's a topic I can add to....
...livin' in the UP near Houghton....
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Why did you have to start this thread and remind me how much I miss Michigan . Born and raised in wyandotte . At 18 joined the air force, ended up stuck in Syracuse ny. Used to spend my summers in black lake/onaway. Long live macinaw
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Hi, I was born and live in Spain but work for a Michigan Company based in NOVI and I use to go there twice a year, does it counts??
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my hats off to you guys that can stand the winters up there, there is no wonder you beat us in civil war. we haven't forgot, it's hard to foget when you get your tail whipped.ha! now i live in ohio, we clash when it comes to college football. well you guys knew one of us had to be a smart elick. i love to joke around, so don't take offense. we love you guys, it is a plesaier having great guys to enjoy trad with. your all welcome to come and hunt with me in my nack of the woods. hey don't laugh at my spelling, i do have a jethro education, i graduaded the 6th grade, i know how to ciffer, and i am a brain surgen. :bigsmyl:
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Originally posted by bucksdown:
my hats off to you guys that can stand the winters up there, there is no wonder you beat us in civil war. we haven't forgot, it's hard to foget when you get your tail whipped.ha! now i live in ohio, we clash when it comes to college football. well you guys knew one of us had to be a smart elick. i love to joke around, so don't take offense. we love you guys, it is a plesaier having great guys to enjoy trad with. your all welcome to come and hunt with me in my nack of the woods. hey don't laugh at my spelling, i do have a jethro education, i graduaded the 6th grade, i know how to ciffer, and i am a brain surgen. :bigsmyl:
No offense taken. When all you have is one football game to look forward to loosing every year, how can we take that away from you? LOL
So you have hunting property down in Ohio, eh?
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Bronson, Michigan
Lived here in Branch county most of my life except the 4 years I was in the USMC stationed at Camp Pendelton CA
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Grew up in Hart MI.
Live in Shelby now.
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Currently in Jackson
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Born in GR, them moved to Middleville through high school, collage in Detroit. Short stints in a few other towns in that area. Did a year in Baltimore, and that is it for out of state living. Moved back to GR and then to Kalamazoo about 20 years ago.
Thirty years ago and more I ran into trad hunters all the time, but that was really before trad was trad. In the last 20 or so not one.
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Hello!!!!!!! :wavey:
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Born and raised in the greater Scottville area. Earned my BS degree in Kalamazoo where I lived for 15 years and most recently have been a resident of Grand Rapids for the past 20 years. Still do most of my hunting on or near the family farm near Scottville.
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Born in Alpena now live in Grayling.
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Born and raised on the other side of the lake in the land of cheese but have lived in Michigan the last 23 years, about 20 miles south of Kalamazoo.
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Grew up in Newaygo, now I'm a city person in grand rapids.
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Born and raised in Oakley...now living around St. Johns area.
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Tip of the mitt.
Onaway,Mich
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I live outside the metropolitan city of Dansville, in Ingham County.
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Originally posted by mjdglobal:
I live outside the metropolitan city of Dansville, in Ingham County.
Isn't that near Lansing? That is where we are having our annual Michigan Longbow Association Squirrel Hunt this September. We're going to the Dansville State Game area. Any tips you might be willing to pass along to us, better yet, why don't you join us.
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Grew up in Farmington, spent 16 years in Texas and now live in the southwest part of the state. While I wait to go to heaven, this will do just fine.
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wow there are alot of us on here, other than a couple of years in allendale for college i have lived my life in portland, a small town between lansing and grand rapids, don't know if i could survive without the michigan fall hunting seasons
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Originally posted by Overspined:
QUESTION!!!
So with all the Trad hunters in Michigan, why have I NEVER run into another Trad hunter in the woods in over 20 years of hunting!!!!?????
We must just be sneaky!
Well, there's about 380 million acres of land in MI, so that breaks down to about 380,000 acres for each of the 100 or so people that posted here.
I have a hard enough time finding my treestand in the dark and you want me to find another hunter on 380,000 acres??
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Originally posted by Turkeys Fear Me:
Originally posted by Overspined:
QUESTION!!!
So with all the Trad hunters in Michigan, why have I NEVER run into another Trad hunter in the woods in over 20 years of hunting!!!!?????
We must just be sneaky!
Well, there's about 380 million acres of land in MI, so that breaks down to about 380,000 acres for each of the 100 or so people that posted here.
I have a hard enough time finding my treestand in the dark and you want me to find another hunter on 380,000 acres??
:biglaugh: [/b]
Oh, we're there, just that we are so sneeky, you will never find us.
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Originally posted by Grapes:
Oh, we're there, just that we are so sneeky, you will never find us.
Just as long as you stay off my 380,000 acres...you have your own 380,000. :nono:
;)
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I'm in Whitehall been in muskegon county almost all of my 46 years. Interview in Tennessee once just could not leave Michigan at the time. Hope to be a yooper one day.
Dave
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I was a yooper for 4 years. I had a place in Trout Lake. Sold out my share in 1998, and became a traveler since then. I prefer having a camper as to a vacation house. It allows me to see much more of the state, and also I'm able to hunt more and different areas. I really enjoyed my days in the UP, and love traveling back there when I can.
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Born in Bad Axe Mi, still here 48 years later ! Nice to see all the michiganders !
Dan
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I will be looking for you all this fall now, so don't be too sneaky!!
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Lived here my whole life,would not want to live anywhere else.But like many on here would love to move north.
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We live in Norton Shores. I was born in Muskegon and Chris was born in Elmira, Michigan.
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Nice to hear from you Jon. We missed you at the GLLI (I hope the weather cooperated with you in Texas). Are you gonna make the Fred Bear shoot?
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Grapes ... saw that you said you had a place in Trout Lake. I have a cabin on Frenchmens Lake, right in Trout Lake.
I was born in Commerce township and currently live in Davisburg but go to school in Saginaw.
Jack
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I was Born in Dearborn, grew up in Lincoln Park, then Wyandotte the downriver area! Learned how to hunt up in Johannesburg, still have a little spot up there, almost like heaven! I now live in Milwaukee and "upnort" every chance I get!