OK AT question time

[Mornin Beef]

OK You qualify as a Minnesotan, very similar. and youre near where I am thinking about moving, Ashburn Virginia. Talk to me. I love eating off the land for my main hobby. Pros/cons.

[FlintRiverFowler]

OK You qualify as a Minnesotan, very similar. and youre near where I am thinking about moving, Ashburn Virginia. Talk to me. I love eating off the land for my main hobby. Pros/cons.

I hear they call it "Trashburn" Virginia

[Mornin Beef]

Mind you, ample access to the potomic, which from what i observed is weak with maybe crawfish, catfish and smallies. didnt see a duck, but would have corn and soy fields for a goose showup that i am not sure is worth much. seems pretty dead and too far inland? effin dc suburb or what?

[Mornin Beef]

OK You qualify as a Minnesotan, very similar. and youre near where I am thinking about moving, Ashburn Virginia. Talk to me. I love eating off the land for my main hobby. Pros/cons.

I hear they call it "Trashburn" Virginia

im sure i will fit in with the people, just worried about the landscape

[FlintRiverFowler]

OK You qualify as a Minnesotan, very similar. and youre near where I am thinking about moving, Ashburn Virginia. Talk to me. I love eating off the land for my main hobby. Pros/cons.

I hear they call it "Trashburn" Virginia

im sure i will fit in with the people, just worried about the landscape

While we're waiting for Teague to show up, are you from Minnesota or New York ?

[Mornin Beef]

OK You qualify as a Minnesotan, very similar. and youre near where I am thinking about moving, Ashburn Virginia. Talk to me. I love eating off the land for my main hobby. Pros/cons.

I hear they call it "Trashburn" Virginia

im sure i will fit in with the people, just worried about the landscape

While we're waiting for Teague to show up, are you from Minnesota or New York ?

NY but same latitude as MN, which is lucky cuz AT is from there

[Mornin Beef]

Im serious here, Im getting tired of working my balls off for ducks, im ready for the easy deer life. im so sick and tired of 12$ a pound goldeneye meals.

[assateague]

It's a bedroom community for DC, for the most part. Close enough to the hills to spend some quality time, and there's decent fishing in the Potomac, but not what you're looking for. Pretty much everything upstream from great falls is rocky as fuck, and shallow, but there's some decent enough spots. Don't know about the deer- might be pretty tough to get spots in farmland. There's a ton of national forest sort of close, but, again, I don't know how the deer situation is.

If you have a choice, try to get a little further west, maybe Winchester. Out there in the Shenandoah Valley is beautiful.

[Eric Haynes]

There's no hunting on Sundays in VA. Fuck that.

[assateague]

Pretty sure you can hunt on Sunday in VA. The counties I've hunted in you can, anyway.

[capt1972]

Pretty sure you can hunt on Sunday in VA. The counties I've hunted in you can, anyway.

technically you can hunt on sundays in Maryland too, its just not "legal".

[Willie]

There's no hunting on Sundays in VA. Fuck that.

Not yet...things are looking like they may be changing.
Back to the original question. I despise anything about northern Virginia area. There's screwed up hunting laws on the Potomac, particularly the Md side. There's screwed up blind laws east of 95 too, unless you're a land owner or have permission from a land owner.
You'll be disappointed in va duck hunting, no doubt about it.
There's plenty of fishing and deer hunting opportunities, but the duck hunting isn't great.

[Willie]

Pretty sure you can hunt on Sunday in VA. The counties I've hunted in you can, anyway.

No Sunday hunting in va...yet.

[assateague]

Oops.

[Willie]

Being Hispanic, the man would probably let you go.

[Mornin Beef]

It's a bedroom community for DC, for the most part. Close enough to the hills to spend some quality time, and there's decent fishing in the Potomac, but not what you're looking for. Pretty much everything upstream from great falls is rocky as fuck, and shallow, but there's some decent enough spots. Don't know about the deer- might be pretty tough to get spots in farmland. There's a ton of national forest sort of close, but, again, I don't know how the deer situation is.

If you have a choice, try to get a little further west, maybe Winchester. Out there in the Shenandoah Valley is beautiful.

That doesnt sound good at all. id have the land for deer, that would be ample and quite exclusive, i could put up numbers. it could keep me busy and i would get major props for becoming a nightime coyote sniper, if i piled coyote bodies on this place they would cook for free and give me lots of wine. probably get a few handshakes too. and then some whiskey shooters. and then probably duel with shotguns.

[assateague]

I suspect I get a free pass. Both times were deer hunting, on a farm in Spotsylvania county, and an orchard in King George county. Oh well.

[Willie]

I suspect I get a free pass. Both times were deer hunting, on a farm in Spotsylvania county, and an orchard in King George county. Oh well.

Shit, no law there anyway.

[Mornin Beef]

it would be a gigantic disappointment of freshwater trades. I just get to stack deer. L

[Mornin Beef]

Is there a day trip to go and get seafood by hand in plenty AT? Clams, crabs, oysters, weird shit like sea cucumbers and etc etc.??? or is it just outrageous with the permits tolls park permits etc etc?

[Redbeard]

Assa shoulda stayed in AZ

[3geese4me]

Assa shoulda stayed in AZ

That's what I'm thinking.

[Willie]

Is there a day trip to go and get seafood by hand in plenty AT? Clams, crabs, oysters, weird shit like sea cucumbers and etc etc.??? or is it just outrageous with the permits tolls park permits etc etc?

You can go clamming on the eastern shore of va or md/ocean city area. There's crab houses and oyster bars too, but it's not like you can just go oystering and catch a bushel. You can crab, but there's laws/permits required if you have more than x number of pots. Md laws are probably different from va laws. I grew up in va, and when we wanted oysters and clams, we went to our buddy who was the commercial fisherman and bought them from him.

[Mornin Beef]

I really think its a shit trade for natural resources, complete shit tradeoff. the only thing cool is salt proximity period.

[Willie]

The striper fishing is really good, so you have that going for you.

[Willie]

The traffic up in the northern va/dc area is absolutely rediculous. It'll make you want to do bodily harm to yourself.

[Willie]

Then there's the redskins. Grew up watching them, but damn they suck.

[assateague]

The traffic up in the northern va/dc area is absolutely rediculous. It'll make you want to do bodily harm to yourself.

Yes.

[Redbeard]

Beef come to California my friend. You'll be welcomed with open arms

[Mornin Beef]

Is there a day trip to go and get seafood by hand in plenty AT? Clams, crabs, oysters, weird shit like sea cucumbers and etc etc.??? or is it just outrageous with the permits tolls park permits etc etc?

You can go clamming on the eastern shore of va or md/ocean city area. There's crab houses and oyster bars too, but it's not like you can just go oystering and catch a bushel. You can crab, but there's laws/permits required if you have more than x number of pots. Md laws are probably different from va laws. I grew up in va, and when we wanted oysters and clams, we went to our buddy who was the commercial fisherman and bought them from him.

Good info. TY. When i was on LI, i raked lil necks and netted blue claws and got all sorts of crazy shit. if i could make a day out of something like those activities it could be worth living there,