why would anyone want to hunt WY?

[ultra300mag]

Three of my daughters have drawn antelope tags on Deseret and one daughter drew a cow elk hunt there. It is a great deal if one can draw. They all shot nice animals and had a great time. The ranch skinned the animals, caped them weighed them etc so that they can keep good data on what is killed each year.

[savage]

Nice to find all there sheds

[azslim]

Hey Bill, you were in my old stomping grounds at the One Shot - my Uncle guided for it for many years, stopped for a while then started guiding again a couple years ago. He also finally got to be a hunter, out shot the Governor either last year or the year before. He has quite a few stories to share about the first-time hunters he has taken out over the years.

 

 

[billrquimby]

Hey Bill, you were in my old stomping grounds at the One Shot - my Uncle guided for it for many years, stopped for a while then started guiding again a couple years ago. He also finally got to be a hunter, out shot the Governor either last year or the year before. He has quite a few stories to share about the first-time hunters he has taken out over the years.

 

Who is your uncle? I may know him. It's been at least ten years since I attended, but if he was guiding from 1982 to about 2000 or so, I probably met him. I returned to Lander virtually every year until about 1995.

 

Bill Quimby

 

[azslim]

My Uncle was the Sheriff for many years, Tim McKinney, has a ranch SE of Lander on the way to Muddy Gap. Both side of my family are from that area, 5th generation ranchers on Mom's side and Shoshone on my Dad's, was related to half the county it seemed, had to get a wife from California so my kids weren't imbred's.....

[billrquimby]

My Uncle was the Sheriff for many years, Tim McKinney, has a ranch SE of Lander on the way to Muddy Gap. Both side of my family are from that area, 5th generation ranchers on Mom's side and Shoshone on my Dad's, was related to half the county it seemed, had to get a wife from California so my kids weren't imbred's.....

 

I never knew the real name of the sheriff of Fremont County in the 1980s and early 1990s, but everyone called him "Pee Wee." He guided me and Wyoming Governor Ed Hirshler the year I was on a team. I really enjoyed the morning I spent hunting with him. He informed me at breakfast that he already had flipped a coin to see who would shoot first, and the governor won, just as he did every year. Was he your uncle?

 

You would know my friends Jack Brody, Chuck Gustavsky (don't know if this spelling is correct, but his family owns Fremont Motors) and Jack Scarlett in Lander, I suppose..

 

I miss the good times we used to have up there so much that I may return in September. It's been a while since I hunted antelope.

 

Bill Quimby

[azslim]

Pee Wee McDougal was the Sheriff before Tim, knew him well - he chewed my butt a couple times when I was drunk in HS and he took the beer and made us go home. Went to school with the Brody boys - Pee Wee yelled as us a couple times and took our beer, and knew the others and their kids. I left that country in 1980, joined USMC, get back every now and then.

 

Lander ain't what it used to be. The conservationists have taken over due to NOLS. When Paul Petzol first started the school it was city kids that wanted to learn how to camp, now they seem to be the anti-hunting, anti-oil, save the bunny crowd. A lot of the old ranches have been bought up by Nature Conservancy crowd, places where I fixed fence and cleaned ditches for FFA don't allow anyone on them now, except for the NC crowd.

[dieselroe]

Wowzers!!

[bojangles]

you gotta be kidding me! that's incredible!