Dream to Reality III: Salt Creek Ranch

[wingnut]

After much thought I decided to sell my Hughes county ranch a couple months ago. https://discussions.texasbowhunter.c...3#post15140383 With land prices climbing and my daughter attending OSU I thought it would be a great time to move. With the help of Darton he listed South Fork and it was immediately sold! Now I had to find a new property which I’m picky, so I knew it wouldn’t be quick. I’m a full time rancher and I really wanted a property that I could run cows on plus be able to hunt. Also being closer to OSU was a bonus. I also wanted to have the option to be able to expand the acreage size as well.

After looking at numerous properties I finally landed on a property in Seminole county. The property is North of Ada Oklahoma. I finally closed on it first of May before the interest rates started climbing. The property is 380 acres consisting of 200 acres that is fenced and crossed fenced so I can run about 50 cows on it. Within the 200 acres I can hunt numerous spots. The other 180 acres is solid timber consisting of a very nice creek bottom and rolling hardwood terrain. There is a 2400 Sq ft 3 bedroom 2 bath house on the property that we just finished adding a 400 Sq ft room on to. Also has a nice shop, pipe corrals and several out buildings. 8 ponds exist on the property and the fishing is great! I have alot of pictures to add because I’m way behind!

Beware I have lots of pictures especially of adding the new room from start to finish! No hunting has been done on the ranch for the last four years so I think it will take a little bit to get them started on the feeding program but I have several nice bucks already!

After 9 truck and trailer loads we had gotten everything moved. It’s a hour apart from both ranches😬

[DUKFVR]

Congrats! Sounds like a Great place! Darton is the Man for Oklahoma property!

[Royal21973]

Congratulations, good luck, and have fun with this new land and chapter of your life.

[txoutdoorsman24]

That's living right there!!! Congrats.

[BlessedVeteran0305]

Sounds like heaven to me, when we going deer huntin 😁

[Bone Thug]

Congrats on the new place!

[RascalArms]

Tagged...looks great and if it's an upgrade to the other ranch you are living large!

[Darton]

Its about time you posted this! Couldn't be happier for you and your family! It was a privilege to be a part of it! Looking forward to the journey

[wingnut]

Here are a few more pictures:

[wingnut]

Picture of the house and shop

[wingnut]

Thanks everybody for the kind words! I’ll post some more pictures to get us caught update tomorrow.

[scott1022]

Originally Posted by wingnut

Picture of the house and shop

The picture of the house makes it look like it's cut in half.

Very cool place. The more of these threads from a Darton property I see, the more that I'm interested in land in Oklahoma. :-)

[skinsfan]

Awesome, congratulations!

[JakeM]

Congrats on an awesome piece of property and location!

[wingnut]

Originally Posted by scott1022

The picture of the house makes it look like it's cut in half.

Very cool place. The more of these threads from a Darton property I see, the more that I'm interested in land in Oklahoma. :-)

Thanks! Come join us in Oklahoma you’ll love it!!

[KactusKiller]

Bout time slacker! Nice to have a neighbor close by.

[JTate]

Congrats man. Looking forward to more pics.

[Jon B]

Very nice sir

[lanceodom]

Nice

[miket]

Awesome, congrats

[spidermonkey]

Looking AWESOME! Congrats again brother! Good Huntin, and God Bless, Rusty

[stxbowhunter]

Awesome looking place, congrats!

[stickemhard3]

I would love to be able to move to OK and have a place like that. I drool at Darton's postings every time. Not sure my wife would agree but a part time after the kids have flew the nest is a possibility. Congrats to you and your family on a great place!

[JhuntsAlot]

Congrats on the great property.

The place sounds awesome.



J

[wingnut]

Thanks again for the nice comments on the new place everybody! I wanted to share some pictures of the first big project that we just finished. A little background on the house it was 2 bedroom and 2 bath 2000sq ft which was great. We like to have friends and family down so I thought we needed another room. Here are some pictures from start to finish. Only thing I didn’t do was the AC. Like at South Fork my FNL can do everything involved with house construction. So when I asked him about adding on a room and I thought we had a great spot to do it, he set let’s get after it! Glad he is also willing to help! One major concern I had was if we would be able to get all the building materials. One big trailer load from Lowes and time to get after it!

[wingnut]

Had some extra help from my friends along the way as well!

[wingnut]

Originally Posted by KactusKiller

Bout time slacker! Nice to have a neighbor close by.

It’s a small world for sure! KactusKiller place is just a little over a mile apart from mine. Going to be fun to share pictures and ideas with each other. Glad to be able to call you neighbor!

[youngbuck1]

Looks great!

[Rwc]

Congrats sir on another piece of heaven. Can't wait to follow along on the progress.


Rwc

[fish4food]

Congratulations!!!

[wingnut]

Just pulled into Salt Creek for a Labor Day family hangout and a little bit of deer hunting preparation! I’ll add some pictures with my project list!

[KactusKiller]

Dang wish I could have stayed longer. Could have visited. Had to head back today.

[wingnut]

Sorry we missed each other……been hard at it all day!

[Burnadell]

Looking good. Congratulations on another labor of love!

[wingnut]

I got two food plots all plowed up and was really surprised how good the ground plowed up! It’s so dry up here I waited to plant until the next rain.

[KactusKiller]

Don’t make them too nice, can’t be having you steal all the deer

[wingnut]

You shouldn’t have showed me your trail cam pictures….lol

[KactusKiller]

In my defense there hasn’t been a lot to show yet

[Darton]

Looking good sir! I am running behind on the planting and hope to get seed in the ground by the end of the week! Keep the updates coming!

[Landrover]

I LOVE IT SIR....and also congrats to Kactus Killer!!!
Hopefully we get our deal done in the next few weeks so I can finally buy a few new toys.......lol! Looks wonderful and always great for getting away from the grind of life. Yall done good!!!

[KingsX]

Looking good ,Brian!

[jshouse]

looks good man, good luck this season, hoping i can make something happen up that way

[Chance Love]

Let's see some TC pics...

[tfrye]

Looking good, congrats! Look forward to watching the progress, good luck this season.

We are southeast near Antlers.

[Agdog]

Attaboy! Awesome stuff!

[wingnut]

Finished my last project for the trip and caught a few fish before heading home!! This creek crossing was impassable but a little work with John Deere and it’s good to go now! Next trip up hoping to get the plots all planted!

[wingnut]

Thanks everybody for the kind words!

[wingnut]

Originally Posted by Chance Love

Let's see some TC pics...

Chance Love, the property hasn’t been hunted in the last 4 years so no feed has been fed. I hope with my feeding program and the food plots new bucks will start showing up. I have a few bucks showing up but no monsters yet. I have found two good sheds that I’m excited about. This is the biggest buck I have on camera.

[Bone Thug]

Very nice. Y’all are doing it right.

[KactusKiller]

Originally Posted by wingnut

Finished my last project for the trip and caught a few fish before heading home!! This creek crossing was impassable but a little work with John Deere and it’s good to go now! Next trip up hoping to get the plots all planted!

Interesting “cattle guard”