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Well, sounds like there might be enough of us to make a go of it. I will call Don when I return from my deer hunting trip October 8th. I'll check different dates with him if he seems open to the idea.
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Tejon is huge so you need to specify which area "around" the ranch you're talking about. It's actually bigger than Rhode Island.
Most of the land to the South is Angeles Nat'l Forest. To the Northeast it's the Sequoia Nat'l Forest. To the West and Southwest it's the Los Padres Nat'l Forest. Most of the land to the North is the central valley and privately owned by farmers. So yes, there's lot of public land around the ranch but the "best" is still on the ranch.
About 10 years ago I missed out on buying a 50% interest in a small 40 acre parcel in the middle of the ranch that included trespass rights to the ranch from a friend that didn't use it any more. It had a small cabin and a spring. Tough to get to in the dead of the winter but it was accessable pretty much 10-11 months of the year. The price was only $15,000 but as a starving college student at the time, that was a king's randsom (or at least another year at school). Today I'd pay multiple times that for that piece of land and the Tejon rights that went with it.
Most of the land to the South is Angeles Nat'l Forest. To the Northeast it's the Sequoia Nat'l Forest. To the West and Southwest it's the Los Padres Nat'l Forest. Most of the land to the North is the central valley and privately owned by farmers. So yes, there's lot of public land around the ranch but the "best" is still on the ranch.
About 10 years ago I missed out on buying a 50% interest in a small 40 acre parcel in the middle of the ranch that included trespass rights to the ranch from a friend that didn't use it any more. It had a small cabin and a spring. Tough to get to in the dead of the winter but it was accessable pretty much 10-11 months of the year. The price was only $15,000 but as a starving college student at the time, that was a king's randsom (or at least another year at school). Today I'd pay multiple times that for that piece of land and the Tejon rights that went with it.
Pig tags always in the truck :wink-yellow:
I talked to a PG&E linesman a while ago who was out with a small crew fixing one of their pipelines and he told me that they jumped a big sow and a bunch of piglets out of a deep canyon in the area. The area he was talking about was well south of the Tejon ranch and only about 15 minutes north of where I live in Santa Clarita.
I haven't seen anything yet but I'm still looking. I'd love to think that we'd get pigs down in my back yard.
I talked to a PG&E linesman a while ago who was out with a small crew fixing one of their pipelines and he told me that they jumped a big sow and a bunch of piglets out of a deep canyon in the area. The area he was talking about was well south of the Tejon ranch and only about 15 minutes north of where I live in Santa Clarita.
I haven't seen anything yet but I'm still looking. I'd love to think that we'd get pigs down in my back yard.
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Songdog, I live in West Hills. I'll be taking my 2 boys on the DFG Junior Pheasant hunt in 2 weeks in Gorman. Do you know any public areas around there for quail?
There are quite a few in the Nat'l Forest around there.
You might try going up the 5 and exiting at Templin Hwy. Go left and an immediate right will take you parallel to the freeway. The pavement is blocked after 5-6 miles at Frenchman's Flats. It's a decent spot to fish for native wild rainbows if you like.
It's all Nat'l Forest so anywhere down there is ok to hunt. If you backtrack up the way you came apx one mile you will notice a dirt road that turns off toward the freeway (still about a mile away) at the biggest westward bend in the road. I've jumped several coveys of quail there on a regular basis. You can hunt that canyon between Templin Hwy and the 5 freeway down to the south for about a half a mile or more.
I don't know why, but I've found more ticks in this area that anywhere else. They give me the willies (I see no use for animals with more than four legs). A little bit of bug spray will keep them off though.
Gorman is just up the freeway another 20 minutes so it should be close to where you'll be.
Good luck,
You might try going up the 5 and exiting at Templin Hwy. Go left and an immediate right will take you parallel to the freeway. The pavement is blocked after 5-6 miles at Frenchman's Flats. It's a decent spot to fish for native wild rainbows if you like.
It's all Nat'l Forest so anywhere down there is ok to hunt. If you backtrack up the way you came apx one mile you will notice a dirt road that turns off toward the freeway (still about a mile away) at the biggest westward bend in the road. I've jumped several coveys of quail there on a regular basis. You can hunt that canyon between Templin Hwy and the 5 freeway down to the south for about a half a mile or more.
I don't know why, but I've found more ticks in this area that anywhere else. They give me the willies (I see no use for animals with more than four legs). A little bit of bug spray will keep them off though.
Gorman is just up the freeway another 20 minutes so it should be close to where you'll be.
Good luck,
Tejon ranch is very expensive but I guess there are plenty of people out there that can afford it. I paid $400 in paso robles for a guided pig hunt this year which I thought was too expensive. Man, there has to be some public land around southern california that has descent hunting.
I have hunted in los padres national forest for rabbit but the brush is too thick and the jacks too fast. Anyway, I am just frustrated that there are not more public hunting land or reasonably priced private land to hunt in southern cal.
I have hunted in los padres national forest for rabbit but the brush is too thick and the jacks too fast. Anyway, I am just frustrated that there are not more public hunting land or reasonably priced private land to hunt in southern cal.
