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.

M44 Cyanide bomb.  The coyote pulls up on the device and receives a blast of cyanide in the mouth.

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.