Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Wyoming Game & Fish bars rifles for Spring Turkey.
Ah crap.
The Wyoming Game and Fish is barring the use of rifles for Spring Turkey Season.
Every turkey I've ever taken has been in the spring seasons. In the fall I'm hunting something else. At least in the fall, you are limited to Tom's.
This poses a problem with a shotgun, as you have to be really close. I don't call turkeys in, as I'm too impatient to do that. I basically stalk them. I'm not the only one, but it's fairly rare.
If you stalk them, you are probably going to use a rifle. You might get close to them, I have, but chances are you are going to be shooting form some distance. A scoped rifle is the best option for that.
Every single turkey I've killed was with a rifle. I tired to take turkeys with a shotgun once, and it was an utter failure. Usually I've shot them with scoped .223s, but not always. I've shot them with iron sights as well.
Well, I guess no more, or I have to added to the list of things to go for in the fall.
As Trump Moves To Allow ‘Cyanide Bombs’ To Kill Coyotes, Some Worry Dogs Will Die
I'm really against this:
As Trump Moves To Allow ‘Cyanide Bombs’ To Kill Coyotes, Some Worry Dogs Will Die
It's not that dogs might die, they will.
I'm not in the camp that suggest that predators need to be left alone, I've shot plenty of them myself. I also think the danger they pose to livestock is exaggerated and tends to be seasonal.
Anyhow. since when I was young I've hunted coyotes from time to time. I view it the same way that I view other hunting to a large degree. I love hunting, but my hunting is purposeful. When I've hunted coyotes I've done it to think predator populations, or for their furs. When I was of high school age I supplemented my meager income this way quite a bit. Fur prices were high then.
But I don't care for cyanide bombs at all. Inevitably some private pet, probably a hunting dog, is going to get into one. And frankly, stockmen can take care of this problem by staying out with their livestock more. Or inviting the coyote hunters in.
And frankly, if ranchers did the latter, they'd receive a fair number of volunteers. The county and Federal trappers are competition, really, for private individuals who would fill most of this role if allowed to.
Friday, May 22, 2026
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: National Park Service Uprooted on the National Mall
Lex Anteinternet: National Park Service Uprooted on the National Mall: When I become President, every golf course in the United States will be grazing land. Same thing with shopping malls. National Park Service ...
National Park Service Uprooted on the National Mall
When I become President, every golf course in the United States will be grazing land.
Same thing with shopping malls.
National Park Service Uprooted on the National Mall
I know how to play golf, but I don't golf. It's boring and sanitized. The kind of sport for people who want to go outside, but fear the outside, or are hopelessly urban. Granted, that's not the fault of all of the hopelessly urban, and that's the place for golf.
Golf is one of those sports that's underwent an evolution in my mind when I was quite young. I won't say that is rational or correct.
My mother was a first rate golfer. My father didn't golf at all. None of the men I knew when very young golfed, and when I came to know some that did, as I aged, they were men who didn't do the things, or didn't do them to the same extent, as the men I knew. Golfing men didn't hunt much, they didn't fish much, they were going to be found at brandings. They all tended to be from the upper upper middle class, or the lower wealthy. In my mind, they were effeminized as they were playing what seemed to me to be an effeminate sport.
That view of golf hasn't changed much for me and indeed its been reenforced as I've grown older. I know that there are some really manly men that golf, but I don't know very many. Of guy's guys that I know that golf, there's one really nice guy I know who does, and that somehow fits him. He's a computer guy. And there's one that's just too out of shape to do anything else, and you can be pretty out of shape and play golf if you use a cart.
I don't think, actually, that these feelings are as unique as a person might think. At one point in time lawyers were associated with golf (not anymore) and some golfed as they felt they had to. This was particularly the case with new lawyers. I've known at least two new lawyers who golfed as they thought that's what lawyers did. Interestingly, of those two lawyers, I know a third person, a woman, who insists that one is "gay" just by her observations of him, even though he's been a married man for years. Maybe the golfing was too effeminizing.
In a weird sort of way, Donald Trump emphasized this a couple of years ago when he simply gushed over his probably totally fictional observations of the size of Arnold Palmer's penis.
Seriously?
Oddly enough, golf was definitely associated with lesbianism at one time. This was the case for decades, and in some ways it cuts against what I'm noting here. As a sport, it was a sport that women could participate in and do very well as professionals, and so perhaps, maybe, women who were sort of masculine in their internal inclinations participated at a higher rate that would have simply existed in the general population.
I can't say much for golf.
Golf also seems to me to be the ultimate boring urban upper middle class excuse for a sport, at least at one time. Manly men might shoot hoops, or go play flag football, or something, but at one time towns and real estate developers but in golf courses as it was the default sport for aging white people.
Tennis is the other urban sport, or was. It's joined by basketball and pickle ball in that category. The thing is, however, that to play any of those sports well, you really need to be in shape. The same kind of guy that can really drive a tennis ball over the net can drive a baseball right down the field at lethal speed..
Supposedly golf has declined in popularity in recent decades, and its notable that at the same time the demographics of the country are changing. Golf was heavily racist at one time and indeed it was more recently than a person might imagine, although there have been some really notable Hispanic and Black golfers. Golf is apparently of Scottish origin, where it would have been pretty darned manly, so its an import of the British Isles. People from other cultures don't really have any roots in it, and for that matter, lots of European Americans don't. Shooting was the sport for Germans, and competitive shooting, like polo, was a major military sport. Shooting was, and in fact is, a major civilian sport in many parts of the country. Basketball is an American sport, as is baseball, and both were played by rural and lower middle class demographics at first. Basketball is particularly interesting this way as it comes from farming country with bitter winters, so its a good indoor sport for a lot of pretty athletic people.
Football is actually of British origin, but the origin is from the British lower class and it reflects that origin to this day. Hunting is a male human universal, which recent anthropology suggest had more female participation in antiquity than previously imagined.
Gardening, hunting, shooting, walking, running and nearly anything just seems to have more merit that golf. But it hangs on in the minds of the elderly, a game of privilege from their youth.
So that a bloated old man with money would choose to wreck things for golf, makes sense. People tend to hang on to the era in which they were young, and the wealthy have more of an ability to do that than other people. The super wealthy have the ability to afflict that on everyone else.
Citing Wyoming corner-crossing case, hunters sue Montana for public land access
Citing Wyoming corner-crossing case, hunters sue Montana for public land access
While not obvious at first blush, this risk creating a situation in which this issue goes to the United States Supreme Court which right now is rather far to the right.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: Friday, May 19, 1911. Parks Canada established.
Lex Anteinternet: Friday, May 19, 1911. Parks Canada established.: Parks Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the US National Park Service, was founded. Maneuver Camp, 1st Separate Brigade, Galveston, Tex. May...
Ft. Crockett, Galveston, Tex., parade 2nd Prov. Regt. May 19, 1911.
Friday, May 19, 1911. Parks Canada established.
Parks Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the US National Park Service, was founded.
Maneuver Camp, 1st Separate Brigade, Galveston, Tex. May 19, 1911.
Last edition:
Thursday, May 18, 1911. Zapata takes Cuautla.
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Friday, May 15, 2026
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: The 2026 Election, 10th Edition. The Setting the s...
Lex Anteinternet: The 2026 Election, 10th Edition. The Setting the s...: We start off this edition with what might be a little light at the end of a tunnel: GOP Senate Challengers Emerge To Take On Harriet Hagem...
Jarvis captured House District 57 from WFC far right member Jeanette Ward, a carpetbagger from Chicago who had just relocated to Wyoming when she took over the seat that had been occupied by the universally disappointing Chuck Gray. Ward is trying to get the seat back.
May 9, 2026
Protect Wyoming ran an ad in today's Trib in favor of Julie Jarvis.
Jarvis captured House District 57 from WFC far right member Jeanette Ward, a carpetbagger from Chicago who had just relocated to Wyoming when she took over the seat that had been occupied by the universally disappointing Chuck Gray. Ward is trying to get the seat back.
Late in the day change for Landon Brown.
Frankly, without a better reason than the one he's given, Brown's action is chicken, as it gives other people who would have run very little time to ponder running.
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus is engaging in complete bullshit here:
Wyoming Freedom Caucus Criticizes Nethercott For Calling For “Lawfare"
I listened to Nethercott on this and she's not calling for lawfare. The WFC is just a bunch of ignorant babies.
Nethercott nearly became the Secretary of State, barely loosing to Lying Chuck Gray. The WFC has never had any love for her in the first place, and basically hates the rule of law.
Bear Spray Is A Placebo. A hiker in Glacier National Park was just killed by disinformation. Here’s how to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen to you.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: The 2026 Election, 10th Edition. The Setting the s...
Lex Anteinternet: The 2026 Election, 10th Edition. The Setting the s...: We start off this edition with what might be a little light at the end of a tunnel: GOP Senate Challengers Emerge To Take On Harriet Hagem...
May 7, 2026
Elissa Campbell is running for reelection in Wyoming House District 56.
Reid Rasner went to Gillette to speak this week at a meet and great at the city's Prime Rib restaurant and drew a whopping huge crowd of three people, according to the Tribune.
Three . . . pretty much tells you where that campaign is going.
At it he suggested that the 50/50 proceeds swap currently existing on public land rental proceeds be made 90/10 with the State getting the 90. He claimed there's a lot of support in D.C. for this. There isn't.
Rasner has been dumping a ton of money into his campaign and apparently Chucky accused him of spending his mother's money. I'm not a Rasner fan but that's ironic for Gray, who also is spending money that came in some form from his family. Rasner denied the charge sort of, asserting that he's a highly successful businessman without really fully denying the claim. Whatever the truth or distruth of it, it is circulating the internet now. Anyway you look at it three candidates who should not get this office, Gray, Rasner and Freiss are dumping piles of money into it.
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Pollice Verso. The 2026 Political Negative Endorsement. The Don't Vote For List.
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