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Ex-NBA player owns 900-acre ranch in Central Texas
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:31 pm
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:31 pm
George Hill’s “Scenic Hills Ranch” is actually almost 2½ times the size of downtown Indianapolis where the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend is taking place. The 15-year NBA veteran’s riches helped him purchase this vast land about 45 minutes from where he once played with the Spurs in San Antonio.
The long-bearded Drash, a Louisiana-bred sportsman, taught Hill how to shoot and break down a rifle, hunt wildlife and even make deer jerky on ranches in Texas Hill Country. Since then, Hill has hunted in Africa, Mexico and all over Texas. The heads of a hippopotamus, giraffe, bear and several other prized game Hill has hunted are now hanging in his garage of his home on the ranch.
“Mr. Drash showed me what it was to really live,” Hill said. “And ever since then, I was like, ‘Man, if I ever make enough money and [I am] fortunate enough, I want to own my own ranch, put in a trust and pass down to my kids to start a generational wealth type of thing. They always say most African American kids, when their parents or their grandparents die, they’re left with debt and not with equity.
“I don’t want to leave my kids in debt. I want to leave my kids with something that’s going to start generational [wealth]. Start them off better, and to a better career path. So, I’m going to own a ranch and I will put into my kids trust fund and it’s going to be a family ranch forever. So that’s how this came about. That’s how the whole ranch started.”
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The long-bearded Drash, a Louisiana-bred sportsman, taught Hill how to shoot and break down a rifle, hunt wildlife and even make deer jerky on ranches in Texas Hill Country. Since then, Hill has hunted in Africa, Mexico and all over Texas. The heads of a hippopotamus, giraffe, bear and several other prized game Hill has hunted are now hanging in his garage of his home on the ranch.
“Mr. Drash showed me what it was to really live,” Hill said. “And ever since then, I was like, ‘Man, if I ever make enough money and [I am] fortunate enough, I want to own my own ranch, put in a trust and pass down to my kids to start a generational wealth type of thing. They always say most African American kids, when their parents or their grandparents die, they’re left with debt and not with equity.
“I don’t want to leave my kids in debt. I want to leave my kids with something that’s going to start generational [wealth]. Start them off better, and to a better career path. So, I’m going to own a ranch and I will put into my kids trust fund and it’s going to be a family ranch forever. So that’s how this came about. That’s how the whole ranch started.”
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Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:35 pm to yaboidarrell
Living the life
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He employs 16 ranch workers to tend to the big herbivores he houses on his ranch. There are dozens of species on the ranch such as fallow deer, sables, kangaroos, wildebeests, donkeys, elk, antelope, scimitar oryx, Arabian oryx, red lechwes, New Zealand red stags, kudus, ostriches, and zebras among others.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:42 pm to yaboidarrell
Living the dream.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:46 pm to yaboidarrell
CSB… seriously
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:48 pm to yaboidarrell
Who feels the need to hunt a giraffe?
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:48 pm to yaboidarrell
dudes gonna get shite on now for trophy hunting
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:50 pm to yaboidarrell
PETA hates George Hill
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:51 pm to Corinthians420
quote:As he should. Don't kill what you don't intend to use to feed you and your family.
dudes gonna get shite on now for trophy hunting
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:53 pm to Corinthians420
So he killed 1 in Africa, but he provides a refuge for 1,000 others at his home? He bought one for $70k
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Hill says his ranch has over 1,000 animals bought primarily from two different breeders in Texas. One female African sable cost $70,000. But there are hundreds of acres to hide in so it’s hard to see most of the animals that get scared from any automobile sound or human scent detected from afar.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:56 pm to yaboidarrell
900 Acres?
That's a hobby farm in Texas.
That's a hobby farm in Texas.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:58 pm to MemphisGuy
His animals he can do what he wants. How tf you know what he does with the meat?
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:59 pm to yaboidarrell
How much something like that cost and how much to operate it?
Posted on 2/16/24 at 7:59 pm to yaboidarrell
Thats a lot of animals for 900 acres. He has to do a lot of food supplementation.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:03 pm to danilo
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How much something like that cost and how much to operate it?
Varies wildly by location.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:05 pm to billjamin
Up in the hill country where he's at the natural forage is terrible, his feed bill has to be crazy.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:06 pm to yaboidarrell
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‘Man, if I ever make enough money and [I am] fortunate enough, I want to own my own ranch, put in a trust and pass down to my kids to start a generational wealth type of thing. They always say most African American kids, when their parents or their grandparents die, they’re left with debt and not with equity.
“I don’t want to leave my kids in debt. I want to leave my kids with something that’s going to start generational [wealth]. Start them off better, and to a better career path. So, I’m going to own a ranch and I will put into my kids trust fund and it’s going to be a family ranch forever. So that’s how this came about. That’s how the whole ranch started.”
George Hill always seemed like a really good, down to earth dude. This confirms it.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:06 pm to MemphisGuy
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As he should. Don't kill what you don't intend to use to feed you and your family
Exactly. I don’t see how anyone can even get positive gratification from killing a big game animal. You aren’t going to eat it. You are also using equipment that does not even make it a challenge.
If you want to prove you are a bad arse, go to Africa or India and kill some King Cobras or Black Mambas. Killing animals that don’t threaten your property and that you also don’t use for anything after killing them is retarded.
I also think using 900 acres on TX as your own personal safari or zoo is a waste of the land. With that amount of acreage you should be raising cattle.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:09 pm to yaboidarrell
Amen, George Hill.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:10 pm to Smoke239
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I also think using 900 acres on TX as your own personal safari or zoo is a waste of the land. With that amount of acreage you should be raising cattle.
If he’s high fenced and selling some exotic hunts here and there he’s making more money than slinging cows.
Posted on 2/16/24 at 8:11 pm to yaboidarrell
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George Hill
Wonder if Antonio McDyess and/or David West have been to the ranch
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