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IDAHO,WYOMING,MONTANA,UTAH

Then you buy 10 acres and want to hunt on everyone else's private property without permission or better yet you go to the county and demand your area be made a not shooting area and start calling the cops on the neighbors because their shooting on their property woke up your wokeness.
I'm dealing with the opposite issue right now. I'm a transplant living in South Texas. Bought a decent amount of land, surrounded by empty pastures. Got to shoot whenever I wanted, and everything was great. Now a bunch of the locals are buying up the pastures since they're old enough to move out of their family homes, and they're building houses in those pastures. They all complain about my shooting, and I just find it all so ironic. I can't wait to start calling them a bunch of California liberals so I can watch their heads explode at the conundrum.
 
I'm dealing with the opposite issue right now. I'm a transplant living in South Texas. Bought a decent amount of land, surrounded by empty pastures. Got to shoot whenever I wanted, and everything was great. Now a bunch of the locals are buying up the pastures since they're old enough to move out of their family homes, and they're building houses in those pastures. They all complain about my shooting, and I just find it all so ironic. I can't wait to start calling them a bunch of California liberals so I can watch their heads explode at the conundrum.
Maybe we should pool our money and develop a shooting community with an HOA requiring every resident get in range time daily.
No club house, just a range.
 
Maybe we should pool our money and develop a shooting community with an HOA requiring every resident get in range time daily.
No club house, just a range.
"Uhhh, it looks like your range card hasn't been punched in a few weeks. We wouldn't want you to fall into the restricted list! This is just a friendly reminder to get your range time in, and make sure you get your card marked so you get credit for the time!"
 
I am going to be flying into salt lake this coming weekend and staying for 2 1/2 days.

Any suggestions for hikes, outdoor activities, must sees and eats ?

I am visiting solo to see if salt lake will be a good fit for me and my family.
 
I have a son in Salt Lake. There are several long distance shooting ranges nearby. He skis and snowboards in the winter and races on a nearby racetrack in the summer, or hikes in the mountains. He told me about a place with a spring and a pool he hiked to, and sat in the pool by himself. He was all relaxed and looked up and saw a mountain lion staring back down at him.
 
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I have a son in Salt Lake. There are several long distance shooting ranges nearby. He skis and snowboards in the winter and races on a nearby racetrack in the summer, or hikes in the mountains. He told me about a place with a spring and a pool he hiked to, and sat in the pool by himself. He was all relaxed and looked up and saw a mountain lion staring back down at him.

I mean.. define nearby?
 
Pretty sure they have a facility up in box elder county that's why I was asking. Well lots to do here and you will find a nice house for North of 800
I have a son in Salt Lake. There are several long distance shooting ranges nearby. He skis and snowboards in the winter and races on a nearby racetrack in the summer, or hikes in the mountains. He told me about a place with a spring and a pool he hiked to, and sat in the pool by himself. He was all relaxed and looked up and saw a mountain lion staring back down at him.
Please give me the coordinates! I would like to take a swim and hang out with the mt lion 🤣
 
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Kearns, West Valley, western Taylorsville aren't great areas. Don't know as much about parts of Salt Lake. I think South salt lake isn't the best as well. Used to live in Taylorsville and lots of homeless and illegal types in the area.

Bought my 1989 1750sqft house in Kaysville summer of 19 for $300k. Zillow says it is $440k today.
I finally made the visit to slc area this past week. Of the places I visited, kaysville is now my top choice of places to live in the slc area. Not far from ogden or slc.
 
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I am going to try and find a home in that same area Kaysville/Farmington . I had to take a pic of the Cabellas in that area. I thought it was pretty cool seeing the mountains in the reflection.
 

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I did a couple of hikes from the 27th and 29th trail heads in Ogden. The Bonneville shoreline trail to the Hidden valley trail and Malans peak trail were good workouts.
 

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They ignore you and you ignore them. They're generally polite and keep to themselves.


If you think you like cold, go sit in the walk in freezer at a butcher shop. Then realize that's warmer than the daily high during the cold spells.
I remember a time working in Anchorage, taking a break inside a walk-in freezer to warm up!
 
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I did a couple of hikes from the 27th and 29th trail heads in Ogden. The Bonneville shoreline trail to the Hidden valley trail and Malans peak trail were good workouts
2 hours from downtown for 1000 yards.

Sighting in almost downtown with 100-300 yards.

Public land abounds where one can shoot for free.

600 yards in Centerville.

Hmmm my 2mile spot is about an hour and some change away from slc.

Kaysville is decent area
 
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Me and the family are officially making the move to the SLC are next month. We have narrowed it down to moving to either the Layton area or Lehi area. Any last minute suggestions on why one would be better over the other would be much appreciated !
 
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Me and the family are officially making the move to the SLC are next month. We have narrowed it down to moving to either the Layton area or Lehi area. Any last minute suggestions on why one would be better over the other would be much appreciated !

Lehi blows... Layton over Lehi all day
 
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I actually got you beat... 0-1k in 5 min

45 for anything farther and no other people to bug me
Not me, this is my son who lives in Salt Lake, and I am going off what he told me.

If you have more ranges to share, I bet

WILLSMITH030382

would appreciate it, and I will pass it on to my son, as well.


I am in Georgia, which sucks for this sort of thing.

I have 100 yards out my back door, and I can make 200 if I clear a shooting lane for that distance, but that is about it.
400 yards is an hour
600 yards is over two hours, and realistically they never set the metal targets farther than 525 yards.
half mile and beyond is over three hours and not open to the public generally, so, special events only.

:(

I am thinking about taking up rimfire just to have more availability without having to go so far away.
 
Tell me you live in lehi without saying you live in lehi……

As everyone knows, @Huskydriver lives in beautiful air-conditioned downtown Des Moines, capital of Iowa and the jewel of the tri-county area.

He works an exciting job in insurance for Monsanto and really enjoys walks along the ornate riverfront balustrades that line the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers.

This is his spacious and well-appointed house:
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Lol ok this is a obv joke. Des Loins sounds like it sux royal ballsacks. @WILLSMITH030382 you should move there. Six min to a 25yd indoor range lol 😆
 
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After you have saved up $500k (cash money), come back and restate your question.


3-10 acres lol hard pass
 
3-10 acres lol hard pass


Good ranch land is going for $20k/acre. Problem is you need about 5000+ acres to live on. BIL has 7800 acres and can only raise 2-300 cows without spending stupid money on supplemental feeding.


Those places are all just houses in the mountains, likely on old mining or homestead claims. Good chance the surrounding area there's lots of forest service and BLM where you get harassed by tourists and rangers.

So why don't you want to join the crowd?
 
Good chance the surrounding area there's lots of forest service and BLM where you get harassed by tourists and rangers.
Is it that bad in Montana? I have spent a lot of time in the National Forest in Oregon and never even see a tourist or a ranger. I spent seven days hunting for elk sunup to sundown and saw only one other hunter during that entire 7 days. Is Montana that different? The population is less than Oregon.
 
Good ranch land is going for $20k/acre. Problem is you need about 5000+ acres to live on.

A lot of people have really unrealistic ideas about how much land costs, raising animals, and how much space they need, not to mention what life is actually like in rural areas. People with 100 acre parcels can have horrible neighbors too, it's not just a city thing.
 
Is it that bad in Montana? I have spent a lot of time in the National Forest in Oregon and never even see a tourist or a ranger. I spent seven days hunting for elk sunup to sundown and saw only one other hunter during that entire 7 days. Is Montana that different? The population is less than Oregon.

Yes, as people don't want to get far from roads. Once you get to the Eastern side you'll rarely get harassed, but it's not the mountains.

If you're willing to get 10 miles off a road it gets good. That's just hard to do.
 
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Yes, as people don't want to get far from roads. Once you get to the Eastern side you'll rarely get harassed, but it's not the mountains.

If you're willing to get 10 miles off a road it gets good. That's just hard to do.
Wow. Coastal Oregon, I just drive up a forest service road a mile or two from the ocean, park, climb up the dirt cliff, and then I am in the woods. I do not see or hear anybody until I decide to come back out.
 
A lot of people have really unrealistic ideas about how much land costs, raising animals, and how much space they need, not to mention what life is actually like in rural areas. People with 100 acre parcels can have horrible neighbors too, it's not just a city thing.
I have kind of given up on getting 100 acres in western Montana, as that definitely costs a small fortune.
 
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Wow. Coastal Oregon, I just drive up a forest service road a mile or two from the ocean, park, climb up the dirt cliff, and then I am in the woods. I do not see or hear anybody until I decide to come back out.

That cliff will knock out quite a few people.

Montana, especially the Western side, has been advertised as a forest tourist destination for 30 years now. We have rivers that you now need a lottery ticket to try and float once to fish, can't cast a fly rod without hitting the guy next to you, etc. Hiking trails that you'd never see anyone on when I was a kid, you now see people every few hundred yards.

Then you have the hunting shows. My local big elk hot spot has 25 tags a year issued. When I was a kid that was 4-6000 people a year trying to get them. Now that it's been on a hunting show, there were 68000 applicants for the same 25 tags last year.