What do you like best about your home state?

[bigride]

I was just wondering what you all like best about your "home" state, not necessarily where you currently reside, but the state you call home.

I am from Missouri...a mule-headed, independent skeptic. Show me or shut it. But what do I like best about the great State of Misery...I mean Missouri?

Bowhunting deer with my dad and brother in the thick woods and rolling hills along the Mississippi River. Calling in big toms in the bean fields north of the Missouri River with friends from the little country church where I pastored. Reeling in big cats on reservoirs sustained by one of the best state consevation departments in the country...a 36 inch channel with Ralph...a 39 inch blue with Howard...and the biggest, by my brother, a flathead that bottomed out the 50 lb. scale at the local bait shop.

I like all these things...events...experiences, but none would mean so much without the people that I lived them with. Enjoying the great outdoors...God's cathedral...with family and friends who could properly appreciate the moment. I suppose these experiences could have happened in other locations, but for me, they happened right here. And that's what I like most about my home state.

 

[leswad]

Seems there is a song is written about my state

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[Iggy]

Wyoming.

It's dammed near full.

 

[6518John]

Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me)

By Wayland Holyfield

Verse 1

October morning in the Ozark Mountains,
Hills ablazing like that sun in the sky.
I fell in love there and the fire's still burning
A flame that will never die.

Chorus

Oh, I may wander, but when I do
I will never be far from you.
You're in my blood and I know you'll always be.
Arkansas, you run deep in me.

Verse 2

Moonlight dancing on a delta levee,
To a band of frogs and whippoorwill
I lost my heart there one July evening
And it's still there, I can tell.

Verse 3

Magnolia blooming, Mama smiling,
Mallards sailing on a December wind.
God bless the memories I keep recalling
Like an old familiar friend.

Verse 4

And there's a river rambling through the fields and valleys,
Smooth and steady as she makes her way south,
A lot like the people whose name she carries.
She goes strong and she goes proud.

 

[OLDNAVYMCPO]

bigride, I spent a few years working construction in Missouri. Besides the people, and the hunting, the thing I like best about that state is that when you order breakfast in a restaurant, you automatically get the best sausage gravy and biscuits.

 

[Frank237]

Montana.

The personal freedoms we are blessed with.

 

[carpriver]

The Great Lakes, the forests, the Independence of the people of the Upper Peninsula. the streams, and lakes. the cold weather. Michigan is were the Coney dog was invented. were the pasty is a complete meal.

 

[Rustyt1953]

It's easy to spell.

 

[italiansport]

What do I like the best about ARIZONA! It can be stared in one word FREEDOM. If I want to buy a gun I go into a store pick out what I want fill out the 4473 and since I'm a CCW holder it doesn't have to even be called in. I pay for the gun and walk out of the store with it. It it's a C&R eligible gun no paperwork is required I simply hand them a copy of my 03FFL and that's it.
Knife rights were covered in another thread. Bottom line in Arizona I can carry any kind of knife I like either concealed or out in the open.
Jim

 

[bigride]

It's easy to spell.

So you're not from Connecticut or Massachusetts?

I hope I spelled those correctly.

 

[DeathGrip]

The next six months.

Though I might put on a flannel a few times and if we really get lucky I get to wear one of two leather bombers.

 

[Old TexMex]

Texas: the weather is so predictable.

 

[Lee Barner]

Tennessee: good huntin and fishin, very 2A friendly and no state income tax. lee

 

[chopshopcop]

Tennessee one of the greenest states. I've been to the deserts in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and and other places, all beautiful in their own right, but I missed the green grass and trees. In a few hours, I can be in the mountains or on the Mississippi or Tennessee river. Just about anywhere I go, I can be at a civil war battle site.

Once outside the big cities of Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, the state is mostly rural, dotted with small towns of 5000 or less. Outside the big cities, we still say sir, ma'am, please, thank you and God bless. We wave at perfect strangers driving down a country road. Go more than a few miles in any direction and you'll find a good place to eat, from upscale dining to downhome cooking. In between, you're sure to find a church to suit your needs.

We have all kinds of game, great fishing, no state income tax and at least for now, we still have fairly common sense gun laws. Pretty satisfied here.

 

[Doug627]

It's not California or New York.

 

[rwsmith]

It ain't perfect, or even close....

What I like best is just being a place where I can do and live as I want. Things change, and people are pouring in here and they might not all have the same ideas, but we will most likely hold onto our 2nd amendment rights for a while. Like I said before. I fear the federal mandate. If we were left alone, we have enough people that hunt and shoot or just plain in favor of owning guns to determine our own way. But the feds are hovering overhead.

 

[m1gunner]

Trees, and those wonderful Ga Peaches and their adorable accent.

I lived in Colorado and Texas for a while, and neither place had the beautiful hardwood and pine forests we have here east of the Appalachians.

I know folks don't mean to assault my senses, but I'd rather stick ice picks in my ears than have to listen to some of the more obnoxious accents found in our great country. But, I think it was Jeff Foxworthy who said that when most people hear a Southern accent, they automatically deduct 20 points off your IQ.

I'll just stay right here and smile.

 

[rwsmith]

My folks didn't...

Tennessee one of the greenest states. I've been to the deserts in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and and other places, all beautiful in their own right, but I missed the green grass and trees. In a few hours, I can be in the mountains or on the Mississippi or Tennessee river. Just about anywhere I go, I can be at a civil war battle site.

Once outside the big cities of Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, the state is mostly rural, dotted with small towns of 5000 or less. Outside the big cities, we still say sir, ma'am, please, thank you and God bless. We wave at perfect strangers driving down a country road. Go more than a few miles in any direction and you'll find a good place to eat, from upscale dining to downhome cooking. In between, you're sure to find a church to suit your needs.

We have all kinds of game, great fishing, no state income tax and at least for now, we still have fairly common sense gun laws. Pretty satisfied here.

My folks didn't retire to the TN hills for nothing. They loved it up there for years until the end. The only problems they had was getting to good doctors (Knoxville) and the tourist traffic went from tolerable to critical mess. They lived outside Sevierville but the traffic just grew. I wasn't that big of a problem because the only place they needed to go was the bank, grocery store, Walmart and the dump.

 

[revolver59]

It would be easier for me to tell you what I don't like rather than what I like. After all I live in BEAUTIFUL UTAH!! Great hunting, fishing, hiking, beautiful mountains, deserts, lakes, canyons, the people, where a big part of the Old West still lives on!! Enough said!

 

[JohnRippert]

Tex Mex, pecans, clover honey, brisket, ladies in shorts during winter.