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My name is Caleb, and I live in Northern Colorado. When I’m not at my job in the Beef industry, I’m running laps.

When not running laps, I’m smoking and grilling outside or exploring the outdoors with the family. When I’m not doing that, I’m a handgun addict. I turned 30 in November and realized that at some point or another, I’ve owned 34 different handguns since turning 21.

At one point, I was shooting about 10-12k rounds per year, combined between handguns and ARs. Now that I have an almost 2 year old, my range time has been cut drastically. I’m looking forward to the day that I can take the boy shooting with me because I have a feeling the volume of fire will increase dramatically.

I started hunting early in life in a Central North Carolina dove field, and eventually graduated to deer hunting at the family farm. Eastern Deer hunting involves more food plot management than anything, so it’s drastically different than the western hunting I have exposure to now. I love to waterfowl and upland hunt, but haven’t been in a couple seasons. I also need to make more of a point to big game hunt. I have some preference points that I intend to burn for pronghorn next season. Even though my sole focus has been being a gun guy and shooting as much as I possibly can, my intention is to I move my focus more toward including hunting in my repertoire. Either way, I’m sure that more shotguns and rifles will find their way to might collection.
 
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Shane Limbeck said:
We’ve got readers and subscribers scattered from the swamps of Florida to the mountains of Montana, and a few even further out. So let’s get a lay of the land.

Where do you call home base?
And when you’re off the clock, what’s your thing? Hunting, wrenching, fishing, forging, flying, sailing, training, tinkering, storytelling… whatever keeps you from staring at a screen too long.

Drop a quick note below. Photos are always welcome. Bonus points if your off-duty life looks like something we’d write a story about.
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Gulf Shores AL is home base and where I was raised. fishing and boating is great..Family owns private land in central bama we use for whitetail, turkey, dove and predator hunting. Excellent spot to do all within a few hours of each other.
 
Omega Watch Guy said:
My name is Caleb, and I live in Northern Colorado. When I’m not at my job in the Beef industry, I’m running laps.

When not running laps, I’m smoking and grilling outside or exploring the outdoors with the family. When I’m not doing that, I’m a handgun addict. I turned 30 in November and realized that at some point or another, I’ve owned 34 different handguns since turning 21.

At one point, I was shooting about 10-12k rounds per year, combined between handguns and ARs. Now that I have an almost 2 year old, my range time has been cut drastically. I’m looking forward to the day that I can take the boy shooting with me because I have a feeling the volume of fire will increase dramatically.

I started hunting early in life in a Central North Carolina dove field, and eventually graduated to deer hunting at the family farm. Eastern Deer hunting involves more food plot management than anything, so it’s drastically different than the western hunting I have exposure to now. I love to waterfowl and upland hunt, but haven’t been in a couple seasons. I also need to make more of a point to big game hunt. I have some preference points that I intend to burn for pronghorn next season. Even though my sole focus has been being a gun guy and shooting as much as I possibly can, my intention is to I move my focus more toward including hunting in my repertoire. Either way, I’m sure that more shotguns and rifles will find their way to might collection.
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Let’s catch up on guns at some point. I’d love to hear about the ones you’ve cycled through and which ones you regret getting rid of.
 
Hey all,

My name is Kyle and I’ve called Lincoln, NE home for the past 6 years. I was born and raised in small town Kansas.

I’ve worked in the grain processing industry since graduating college. When I can get away from that, my wife and our two boys (2.5 and 1) try to camp and fish as much as we can, even though fishing just involves wrangling the boys and putting worms on. I typically take a week or two off to go down to KS for whitetail bow season and night hunting coyotes with thermals. Hoping to do some hunts out west in the next few years once the boys get older. I’ve recently gotten back into shooting and building guns after taking a few years off. I also thoroughly enjoy drinking cheap beer and cooking in BBQ competitions, good way to stay busy in the summer months.
 
Originally from the Ozarks but now live in sprawling metropolis of Pleasant View, TN. Love to duck hunt and really chase after anything that can fly.
 
Indiana… in a strange place where we are far enough south to get armadillos and southern bald cypress, but also far enough north to occasionally ice fish, if you have the stones to try.
 
Good afternoon Gentlemen,

Born outside of Philadelphia. Moved down to St. Petersburg, Fl a few years back. Great place so far. Working in the commercial trucking industry in regards to sales/marketing.

When not at work I’m finding the closest area of water to fish. Started fly fishing up north and brought it with me to Florida. Pretty damn different from freshwater to salt. Learning how to fillet them now and making some recipes through em.
 
When not working I call the San Bois Mountains North of Wilburton, OK home. Off the grid and enough land to hunt, fish, and not see another human for as long as I need to unwind.
 
Born and raised in Northwest Arkansas, relocated to New Braunfels TX after 40 years and have no plans to leave.

When not working im either at a kids sport with my daughter (soccer, basketball, tennis, volleyball). I love to go upland hunting a few times a year, surf and land based shark fish, fly fish locally and I've recently taken up golf.

I need to go shooting more but since I moved I havent built up a group who likes to go to the range so that has been put on the back burner for a bit.
 
Hello Everyone! Currently calling South West Florida home. I have a lot of business interests in Maine, so in my spare time I either fish/hunt here in FL or travel north to chase woodland creatures!
 
Shane Limbeck said:
We’ve got readers and subscribers scattered from the swamps of Florida to the mountains of Montana, and a few even further out. So let’s get a lay of the land.

Where do you call home base?
And when you’re off the clock, what’s your thing? Hunting, wrenching, fishing, forging, flying, sailing, training, tinkering, storytelling… whatever keeps you from staring at a screen too long.

Drop a quick note below. Photos are always welcome. Bonus points if your off-duty life looks like something we’d write a story about.
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Home base for me was originally Ohio, but I currently live in Wyoming and love it. I’ve lived in Ohio, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Ohio, and now the great state of Wyoming. Off the clock, I have a new baby and when I’m not spending great time with him I’m hunting, off-season scouting, trout fishing, shooting, or just relaxing with a bourbon, vinyl, and a book.
 
Evansville, IN is home for me. When im not working, I am either shooting sporting clays or bird hunting. Or, working my second job which is a professional blacksmith of 14 years shipping axes and garden tools all over the world. Im a Forged In Fire alum, and have also ruined any chance I've ever had of being a hand model 🤙
 
Located in South Texas where I work as chemical process operator at a refinery. I only work 2 weeks a month so when I’m not there I’m usually outdoors chasing some kinda critter.
 
My name is Wendell, I live in North Texas. Have a 1000 acre ranch in NW Texas where we hunt Aoudad and 2700 acres outside Cisco TX (1.5 hrs West of Ft Worth) where we hunt exotics, Turkey & Whitetail.

I hunt all over the globe, as often as budget and wife allow, Africa, Europe, South America and Western US and Alaska. I run hunts on both my ranches and I have been a bookings agent since 1999.
 
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