Probably moving to Sheridan, Wyoming. Anything I ought know?

[keith44spl]

I'm a figgerin' on maybe retiring to the Cowboy State....I like Sheridan purty good too

I've probably got mail in Ol Cheyenne right now


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[wyo-man]

Iggy's windsock joke ain't no joke. I retired to Kansas, it is windy here. 20-25 MPH at times. But, read on.

On my 1st Mule deer hunt in Wy those 40-50 MPH breezes felt like brick walls every time my truck crested a ridge and hit one head on.

I was 45 and walked 4 plus miles per day all summer and fall before my 1st hunt, I could buzz the Mtns and hills. I had a bonus doe tag and got a nice one about a mile from my truck. Humidity. All deer I have taken in MO or KS would drip blood 8 hours after field dressing. I field dressed the WY doe, spread her rib cage with a stick and propped her up on a sage brush for a few hours while I ate lunch and watched for a buck. I took the stick out and threw her over my shoulder, hmm no blood drainage. On the way out I found a Mule deer shed from the previous year. I picked it up. I then found a Tru Temper hammer laying on the sandy soil and picked it up. When I got back to the truck still no blood leakage. I dropped her and looked inside, it was like leather, dry as a bone, the humidity was so low everything wet that was exposed dried out. Maybe a local can expound on this.

Wyoming (maybe because of the elevation) has very low humidity. Ink pens without caps dry out pretty fast - and some of the women mention how dry their skin is so they have to put lotion on all the time. The benefit is the temps are "more" tolerable (yes it does get cold/hot) but some say that makes it easier to be outside when one has to.................

wyo-man

 

[Bat Guano]

Snowed here today. Made it hard to find my brass. But we're looking for 80 degrees again in a few more days.

 

[GatorFarmer]

The snow fell in Sheridan as well today. More than I had seen since a particularly bad set of storms that hit Virginia my last winter there. I do not remember a single flake in Beaufort. A gun trading buddy there told me it was a hundred degrees there today.

I was surprised to find beer and wine unavailable in grocery stores. I suppose the large number of drive up liquor stores makes up for it. It is apparently possible to pull up, order a margarita, have it made, and drive off with it in a to go cup.

22 long rifle seems harder to find here than back in SC. No one had 6.5 Carcano, 30-40 Krag, 9x18, 416 Rigby or 7.62x25mm either. I would have thought the Krag would have lived on here. I see a fair number of Trapdoors on consignment and the Remington load commonly considered safe for them seems easy to find.

Anyone have a hoarded box of 7.35 Carcano JSPs btw?

Though the Big R store did have a special, selling Blazer Brass 9mm fmj for 9.99 a box. That seems in stock most places (9mm).

I kept my Carcanos, since they are an interesting mix of virtually worthless to sell or trade, yet can serve the needs of a rifle to have around. Well, they would with ammunition anyway... Easy to find in Beaufort, even 6.5 Carcano is seemingly unknown here and dried up online.

My Krags, Trapdoor, elephant rifle etc have found themselves either sold or listed on consignment sadly. My wife needed a 4 wheel drive vehicle and there is a backlog of some months on VA disability benefits. Such is life. Hopefully I can avoid the wolves, bears, mountain lions, errant sasquatch and what not. My wife refuses to take trash out at night for fear or raccoons, which to be fair, ate her pet cat she had just before she and I knew each other.

I got to visit Fort Phil Kearney and the monument to the Wagon Box Fight. I have not been out to the Fetterman Massacre location yet. Odd to end up in a place I read about as a boy, Fort Phil Kearney being only a few miles from me. One can walk a reconstructed part of the stockade.

 

[JcMack]

A friend of mine lives in Wyoming and tells me there's a woman behind every tree.

 

[vigil617]

A friend of mine lives in Wyoming and tells me there's a woman behind every tree.

I sure hope that's not because it's where the men insist they stand.

Could be because that's the only way to keep 'em from blowing away, though.....

 

[williamlayton]

I blew thru Wyoming one time.
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