Where’s home base for you and what do you do when you’re not working?

[Shane Limbeck]

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.

 

[Jeff Forrester]

Hey Shane, I am located in Orlando, FL and was born and raised in Gainesville, FL which is the home of the Florida Gators. I have been married to my wife Tammy for 19 years and we have a 17 year old son and a 15 year old daughter. We are a sports centered family right now so we don't do much else other than football and volleyball but when we do make the time our family loves to travel.

 

[Joe Ferronato]

I call the West home. Currently living in Idaho with plans to move back to Montana. I'll never leave. In my free time I'm in the mountains or on the water. Hunting, fishing, rafting, skiing, snowmobiling, you name it. The less cell service the better.

 

[Mike Schoby]

Hey Shane. I live in Bozeman Montana. It is a horrible, windswept place with very little redeeming qualities. It is frozen and buried with snow 9 months of the year. Hardly any public land and other than squirrels and catfish there is nothing to hunt or fish for anyway.

Now please go and tell everyone you know.

 

[Cagney]

Hey Shane. I call Clarkesville, Georgia home. Not a lot of free time currently with 4 kids still at home and every single one of them plays sports. But, I wouldn't trade it for anything. My oldest may be a little familiar to some, he was the FE intern this summer and is currently in his senior year of high school.

 

[Chad Adams]

Split time between Kentucky, where I coach football, and Georgia, where I'll eventually be full-time. And you'll find me on a river everywhere in between every chance I get.

 

[Tony Caggiano]

Central Florida....been here since 2018, when I managed to escape (soon to be) communist New York.

On the clock or off, hun ting and fishing is top priority, especially with my 2 sons whenever possible!

 

[Dave Eder]

Live in NYC
Wish I lived in the Bahamas

But since you ask @Shane Limbeck , home is....
Home:


@Jason Vincent

 

[Charlie Benton]

I live in Clarkesville, GA near FEHQ, up in the North Georgia mountains. I spent most of my life living in South Carolina with the most recent stretch being down in Charleston. When I'm not working, I'm either hanging out with my family or trying to master the art of still hunting in the Blue Ridge Mountains - an area designated as "low-density" when it comes to whitetail---as opposed to the "high-density" areas of SC I'm used to hunting. There is also a perpetually a 4-foot layer of extremely dry, crunchy leaves on the ground in these mountains which tends to telegraph my ever step to the one whitetail buck that lives within a ten-mile radius of where I'm hunting. Regardless, I dig the challenge.

 

[Cagney]

I live in Clarkesville, GA near FEHQ, up in the North Georgia mountains. I spent most of my life living in South Carolina with the most recent stretch being down in Charleston. When I'm not working, I'm either hanging out with my family or trying to master the art of still hunting in the Blue Ridge Mountains - an area designated as "low-density" when it comes to whitetail---as opposed to the "high-density" areas of SC I'm used to hunting. There is also a perpetually a 4-foot layer of extremely dry, crunchy leaves on the ground in these mountains which tends to telegraph my ever step to the one whitetail buck that lives within a ten-mile radius of where I'm hunting. Regardless, I dig the challenge.

Good thing the deer in my backyard are use to my kids being loud as fuck. You're welcome.

 

[Pete Correale]

Hey Shane. I live in Bozeman Montana. It is a horrible, windswept place with very little redeeming qualities. It is frozen and buried with snow 9 months of the year. Hardly any public land and other than squirrels and catfish there is nothing to hunt or fish for anyway.

Now please go and tell everyone you know.

I hear Bozeman is a gathering place for those who are into the dark art of autoerotic asphyxiation.

 

[Pete Correale]

Live in NYC
Wish I lived in the Bahamas

But since you ask @Shane Limbeck , home is....
Home:


@Jason Vincent

Ive heard the Pink Snapper fishery is very good in NYC?

 

[Andrew Court]

I live in Miami Beach but spend a few months every year LARPing as a hipster in NYC. When I’m not writing FE articles or hanging out with my son in South Point Park, you can normally find me riding my Triumph, playing very mediocre tennis, or drinking whiskey on my balcony.

 

[Keith Wood]

Born and raised in South Florida but now live in Alabama which is basically Florida in 1989. And I freaking loved Florida in 1989.

 

[JRQ]

I live in Oxford, Mississippi and teach 6th grade English and coach the track team at a little country school ten minutes from my house. I also teach night classes at a local JUCO, guide bird hunts and fishing trips, train bird dogs, write for FE, and shoot deer and turkey from my bathroom window.

 

[huntbirdz]

Hola compañeros! Born in Central America...but I hail from KC (on the Kansas side and a lot less crime)! I'm a retired LEO of 27 years. I worked for a large metro agency with 25/27 years in special units (Gang, Interdiction, Fugitive, Tac) and was a Federal Task Force Officer with DEA and USMS. I also did a decade in the Marines. I am a fanatic wingshooter and chase wild birds in wild places all over the country. Started writing and have been doing so for FE since I connected with Jason in 2020.

 

[John Warren]

I am from the PNW but currently living in Austin Texas working as the partnerships manager for Magpul. I am a former Army Sniper who still moonlights as an infantry tactics instructor for the Oregon Guard. I love hunting, wing shooting and precision marksmanship and as of late become obsessed with traditional archery and flintlock rifles. I started writing back in 2016 for the Journal of Mountain Hunting and have been lucky enough to contribute to FE, Petersons and a few others.

 

[Kyle Wright]

My name is Kyle Wright. I live in Cushing, Oklahoma, where I pastor a church and counsel addicts and alcoholics at an inpatient, substance abuse facility.

I hunt big game in Oklahoma and have an unhealthy obsession with fine-figured walnut stocks and red recoil pads.

 

[Andrew Wilson]

My home base is Big Bear Lake in Southern California. Even though I am only two hours from Los Angeles at an elevation of 7,000 feet, I can get into some real alpine experiences. When I'm not teaching Art, I am hunting and fishing. Many are surprised you can hunt deer and bear in SoCal, but trust me, you can. Just be careful not to accidentally shoot a tourist. With 40 million people living in the LA basin, it can get pretty busy in my woods. Yet, sometimes, midweek, you can be the only one within half a mile.

Oh, and when there's time, I illustrate and write stories for FE.

 

[iammattpowell]

I'm in Utah, Farmington Utah - originally from Georgia, moved out west after college, spent a good portion of my life living around New Mexico. If I'm not working, I'm probably hiking or hunting or preparing for hunting season with my dog Bridger - and even then I'm probably figuring out how to take calls for work when doing those things to not be the home office. I used to run a martial art company, Pramek, published a bunch of books on martial art and combative pedagogy and personal development, and now I've given up that life to save my back and brain from more damage. Glad to be here, always up to do something with like-minded people.