Auburn University, any good hunting around?
06-19-2007, 10:28 PM
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Auburn University, any good hunting around?
I am only a junior in high school but I am seriously considering Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama). It was in Outdoor Life as one of the top 10 outdoorsmen universities. The good thing for me is that I not only can get a degree in Wildlife Science, but I can go there on a Navy ROTC Marine Option scholarship (figured being a Marine Corps Officer could give me great weapons training
). I have been looking forever for a school in which I can do both of those simultaneously because I have always been intersted in the military and thought that it would be at least a great base if I did not want to go career. Anyway, to the questions: what are the best hunting and fishing oppurtunities here? Would being in the Marine Corps for anywhere from 6 to 10 years (if I do not go career) be fine if I wanted to use that degree and become a wildlife biolofist later in life? Thanks for any input!
). I have been looking forever for a school in which I can do both of those simultaneously because I have always been intersted in the military and thought that it would be at least a great base if I did not want to go career. Anyway, to the questions: what are the best hunting and fishing oppurtunities here? Would being in the Marine Corps for anywhere from 6 to 10 years (if I do not go career) be fine if I wanted to use that degree and become a wildlife biolofist later in life? Thanks for any input!
06-19-2007, 10:35 PM
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RE: Auburn University, any good hunting around?
I had an acquaintance who was a forestry professor for years and years there at Auburn (he was my wife's sister's father-in-law); he lived right across from Stillwater resort on Lake Martin. I can tell you; that's a beautiful lake -- probably one of the prettiest I've ever been on, and I'm privileged to live fairly close to some fantastic ones in the Ozarks (Norfork, Greer's Fairy, Bull Shoals, etc.)
The Robert Trent Jones golf trail has a bunch of super-nice courses winding around through there, too.
I bowhunted Alabama for several years on Christmas visits there when they lived there, but we always drove a couple hours away to hunt a friend's land bordering the Tom Bigbe river. Lots of deer, but they were the size of German Shepherds! [:-]Be sure to eat at Ezell's Fish Camp if you get down that way; it's a tradition.
The Robert Trent Jones golf trail has a bunch of super-nice courses winding around through there, too.
I bowhunted Alabama for several years on Christmas visits there when they lived there, but we always drove a couple hours away to hunt a friend's land bordering the Tom Bigbe river. Lots of deer, but they were the size of German Shepherds! [:-]Be sure to eat at Ezell's Fish Camp if you get down that way; it's a tradition.
