Is this considered west texas or north texas? It's in the panhandle by Oklahoma.

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It's right at the base of the panhandle so I don't know what they call it. Probably west tx. I hunted there for 5-6 years. I had no problem with the people but you could definitely tell the difference between the natives and the people who moved into the area to work at the prisons. And while there is your typical flat red dirt fields everywhere there is also a surprising bit of rough canyon land around there. We had mulies and whitetail a on our leases.

Had a great cheap motel on the east side of town. Came through 3 months later and the place was condemned.

Yeah, probably more Rolling Plains than anything, but Panhandle might fit, too. It's in that never land....too far south to be true Panhandle, too far east to be South Plains, too far west to be north Texas....though why in Hades the Dallas area, a full 3.5 degrees in latitude and 240 miles south of the north end of Texas is considered "North" Texas is something I've never figured out.

There's really no good name for that Childress - Vernon - Wichita Falls area, except hotter than hell.

Comanches seemed to love it!

"****ty land and shifty people."

Whoa there Cancer Boy. My parents had a half section there for 20 years and raised some pretty good cotton crops. Also, I, like many others around there, thought they were very fine folks. Of course this took place in the 20's - 40's so things may have changed since then,

Maybe I'm crazy, but I love that area of the state. Especially once you get into the canyon country that FS mentioned. Plus, that was part of the Comancheria, and still, at times, seems almost as wild today.

"The arm pit of texas" is what I've heard that area called all my life.

Guy at work went up to hunt mule deer last year near the river in some canyons. Nice deer just near impossible to get the deer out of the canyon. They helped an older disabled vet who had shot a small doe. He said that was the toughest he had worked for the smallest deer that he didn't even shoot but the old vet was sure happy they helped. He said it was worth it when they say the smile on his face and got to hear some old stories.

I thought the arm pit of Texas was Deer Park/Texas City.

Some of the largest bodied deer in the state are in the Childress area.

I've thought about putting in for the Matador WMA biologist positions severals times, but not going to lie, my wife would shoot me.

I call it south plains. Its about one county south of being "true panhandle"

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I thought the arm pit of Texas was Deer Park/Texas City.

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No, that's Joshua/Cleburne

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just near impossible to get the deer out of the canyon

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Bull$h!t.

Let me hunt there, and I'll prove that opinion wrong.

Does Childress fit in with any of these descriptions?

http://youtu.be/JREkqCvLzSo

Log, I think he means for the normal person. You need not apply.

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Maybe I'm crazy, but I love that area of the state. Especially once you get into the canyon country that FS mentioned. Plus, that was part of the Comancheria, and still, at times, seems almost as wild today.

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You are crazy, but not for this. I hunted a lot of quail in those canyons when I was a kid. It's beautiful country.

I don't know what to call it either. When we hunted in Paducah (30 miles south of Childress)I only knew to describe it as in the middle of Amarillo, Lubbock, and Wichita Falls. I just knew it's a terribly long drive from Houston.

As many have said I was thoroughly impressed with the size of the whitetail, mulies were so-so. Terrain was a blast to hunt. The deer were slippery in those draws, easy to lose.

Paducah is Rolling Plains, boss.

Do a Google maps search of the areas surrounding Paducah and call that topography what you will. Where we hunted was anything but flat. I think "draw" was an accurate description, maybe 20-40 feet from ridge to bottom. Basically walked those and/or set up on top waiting for the deer to traverse back and forth to the surrounding wheat fields.

Perhaps my description of Paducah was incorrect, more between Paducah and Childress.

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The Pease River Valley.

My last lease was halfway between Childress & Paduca in Cee Vee. A branch of the Pease River ran right through the middle of it. I loved that place. 6750 acres with year round access. 13 people on the lease. Everybody showed up opening weekend of WT season and opening weekend of Mulie season. The rest of the year there were 5-6 of us who came out on a regular basis. I was the only bow hunter in the group. I was almost physically sick to my stomach when they told us our lease was ending because the owner died and the heirs were putting it on the market.

I say north or west of Childress is the Panhandle. South or east of Childress is the Rolling Plains.

I'd say if you are north of Childress, Plainview, or Muleshoe, you are in the Panhandle. Anything south of that line is West Texas.

Some real nice country around Childress whichever way you label it.

No way that's west texas.

You want to know what's NOT West Texas?

Ft. Worth.

I'm always amazed people refer to it as the start of West Texas.

But I guess I shouldn't be. Seems like lots of Texans live with maps that have only empty space and the notation "hic sunt dracones" on anything west of I-35.

Everything west of 45 is the the desert "west Texas"






Joking of course. I live behind the pine curtain

I think Ft. Worth is more like the gateway to west texas. Much like St. Louis is the gateway to the west. Neither city is anywhere near their respective west, but back in the day they both served as major launching points for westward movement.

I live in Childress and have for years. The hunting is very good. Lot's of hogs for year round and even helicopter hog hunts. South of Childress is anything but flat. It was becoming a hunting mecca before a 3-year drought. Many local tanks and lakes were filled Easter Sunday when as much as 6 inches of rain fell here in four hours. Still need more...

Know some good folks from that area. Coach named Stephens '91, and a BQ bud named Crook '77. Latter lives near College Station, but still farms the home place near Childress.

We got about 6/100 of an inch of rain from that system, so am jealous of what you got.



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e=mc,

Would you consider Childress to be in the Panhandle? How would you label it?

I was born and raised in Childress.

It is known by locals as the gateway to the panhandle and in the rolling plains of Texas.

Great hunting....any direction from there.

Hopefully with the rain we will actually see the Quail population increase. Miss those days.