October 2024 I will be retiring and leaving Illinois for good. Evansville or Lawrenceburg might be a destination for me. In no particular order I'm looking for a place to shoot, pool hall, dirt track racing, Casino, healthcare, a farmer willing to barter labor for hunting rights, peace and quiet!

Howdy,
I'm in Jennings County..........very small town,pretty quiet around here,not much to do here but not far from Indy,Louisville,Cincinnati.
very rural,lots of agriculture,hills and hollers.....very active gun club based in Bartholomew County has ranges ---indoor and out---in Brown County.Shooting complex north of Columbus at Atterbury.......free range at Crosley F&W area near Vernon (Jenning County)
anything else,send me an email......be glad to chat
Dana

Jackson and Jennings counties are a good place to live.  Good dirt tracks in Brownstown and Vernon.  Very good hospitals in Seymour and Columbus.

Please vote red?

Come on over, a few of my employees have made the move and aren't ever going back.  I live on the western side of southern Indiana but have lived a handful of places.  

There is a decent long-range range near evansville.  I am told there is one near Madison, which isn't too far from Lawrenceburg.  There is a great sporting clays range near Corydon.  The country gets more scenic and wooded as you move east.

What type of shooting do you like to do?

Gibson County here....Gibson, Pike, Posey, Warrick, Knox counties (all of SW Indiana) are conservative and very firearm friendly. Home prices aren't bad and you are driving distance to Evansville for "big town" shopping.

Stay out of Evansville.


If you need detailed info then IM me  and we can talk. I have lived here 20+ years.

what's wrong with evansville?

Repblicrat Mayor and general liberal shithole....no problem to visit/shop but wouldn't want to live there. Crime rate is climbing quickly.

Washington County checking in. Southern Indiana is mostly rural and truly Gods country.

AIRBORNE!!!!!

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With the exception of my insane county; Monroe.

I hate this place and am actively looking to move to Greene or Lawrence County.

Have school age kids? Do yourself a favor and stay away from the train wreck that is North Lawrence Community Schools.

I do, but one has already graduated and I'm sending her to a private, non-compromised university at considerable cost to me, but it's worth it.  The other one is entering high school and he will be going to school here, but he's based as hell, so I don't really worry about him.

I've heard that BNL school is a train wreck.

I grew up in Lawrence County. After I retired from the mil I went back to check the place out.

Nope, nope, nope. Moved my sons to Washington County to finish school.

I'll not be leaving here. That Airborne guy above is right, it is some  beautiful country.

Interestingly, there is pretty substantial prior military population here as well.

If you do decide to move to LC, you'll not be alone. There are some pretty cool arfcommers living in Bedford that I've linked up with on ham radio. No doubt others scattered around the county.

born and raised in chicago. three years stationed at Ft. Bragg. i've had way more then enough dumbfuckery in my life! i want to go someplace quiet and be left alone! the only thing i'll miss about chicago is the food. thanks for all the replies.
nice range to shoot at
dirt track for late model and sprint car racing
pool hall
casino and decent hospital

Nearly neighbors, Orange County here, and yes, southern Indiana is quite lovely. Not in any way the flat cornfield boring landscape people associate with
Indiana.

The schools are terrible in Lawrence county and have been for some time. The school board is very corrupt as well, I’m glad I don’t have any kids in school anymore.

Interesting. I have a few friends that went to school at BNL. Never knew this about the school system.

SE Indiana offers everything you're looking for sounds like, closest real range besides DNR is Camp Atterbury outside Columbus.

I'm an "outsider". I grew up in another county in Indiana that has similar demographics, towns etc to Lawrence County. The corruption in my home county pales in comparison. The good ol' boys club here is a big group of old white guys circle jerking and filling each other's wallets (and their friends wallets). Commissioners rejecting requests for Anerican Rescue plan funds for actual useful, beneficial things, then using the funds for things they weren't supposed to be used for jeopardizing those funds. Every time I think I like a local politician he gets elected and proves he's just another scumbag.

This year's Sheriff primary is BIG. We finally got a judge that wasn't in the circle jerk club 4ish years ago. 2 years ago we got a prosecutor that isn't in the circle jerk club. He asked the Sheriff's Dept to work with him in stemming the flow of drugs into the county, not just the local distribution. The Sheriff stonewalled him. So he went to the ISP. They were happy to put together an aggressive crimes team in a county that wasn't just going to be a revolving door for drug runners. In 2 years they've been hammering the drugs without the assistance of the Sheriff's Dept. So this year the team lead of the ISP aggressive crimes team (who lives in LC) is running for Sheriff against the chief deputy. I'm personal friends with some retired and ex deputies. Not a single one if them has a good thing to say about the chief deputy. Yet it looks like it's going to be a close race because good ol' boy has friends that don't actually care about law enforcemen, just want to see their buddy elected because he's put in time and "deserves it"... it blows my mind.

All that being said, LC is still a good place to live. It's beautiful, the rolling hills are beautiful. The rural landscape in many southern Indiana counties is just phenomenal.

Thanks for the perspective.

341 more days! what's Jeffersonville like?

Crazy how 18 months can change things.

The good Sheriff candidate won. The rotten members of the school board were ousted and the worthless POS superintendent was fired. School board has a new superintendent that is doing well and they're moving in the right direction to correct the mistakes of previous boards. We still have our issues, BPD chief and some officers have been involved in some questionable activities but overall I'm thinking things are going mostly in the right direction.

This. I still own property west of Seymour. Got a lot of relatives still down there. You want farm land? It’s there. You want a house in the woods off the beaten path? It’s there. Go west from Seymour and you’re not far from Nashville or Bloomington (Commie quotient is too high there but good restaurants and college sports.)

A little methbilly-ish depending on how deep in the sticks you get. Can’t go wrong near Columbus or Seymour.

Right across the river from Louisville.
I wouldn't want to be anywhere near there. There's a reason a lot of Cops episodes were filmed there.

AIRBORNE!!!!!

clear my brother!

If you want isolated and hilly then Perry or Crawford County are what you seek. Most of them is Hoosier National Forrest. Grew up near there and have lived in the Columbus area for the last 16 years.