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  1. Cornell Cowboy

    Unsuccessful Wyoming Resident. Options?

    I think you'd have to make them a lot more expensive to have any effect on demand.
  2. Cornell Cowboy

    Unsuccessful Wyoming Resident. Options?

    I'm in the same boat as you (as are at least 41% of the other resident applicants), with my 12-yr old looking forward to his first antelope hunt that will now have to wait -- we'll get to still try for deer and elk, but antelope is really the perfect first hunt. The reality is that applicants...
  3. Cornell Cowboy

    What am I missing? Wyoming Antelope 38-2

    Sorry, I should have clarified that I was looking at resident tags. I guess I could see GoHunt affecting nonresidents, but I don't know any residents that use it.
  4. Cornell Cowboy

    What am I missing? Wyoming Antelope 38-2

    The number of first choice applicants for a Wyoming 38-2 tag jumped from 74 in 2021 (2nd choice was 114, 3rd was 30) to 233 in 2022 (2nd choice was 255, 3rd was 101). That's a bump of more than 300% for an area with very little public land and a dwindling antelope population (as evidenced by the...
  5. Cornell Cowboy

    Wyoming 2022 draw results!!!!

    I can't make any comment without snark right now...loving my resident benefits! At least I can hunt general elk. But my 12-yr old son was looking forward to his first antelope hunt this year, that apparently will not be had.
  6. Cornell Cowboy

    My Diatribe, 2nd edirtion

    You win. I guess you're just a better hunter than me. I like my 338 for elk (although I've killed elk with a 270, 30-06, and 300 WM) because if anything goes wrong, I'm not a African bushman-esque tracker, plus I'm usually about 150 yards from private, so I need them down when I shoot. I try to...
  7. Cornell Cowboy

    Bill to expand WY Wilderness areas

    My sense on this is that it was less about Wyoming wanting more wilderness areas and more about giving conservation groups a "win" (but they're not happy because they want significantly MORE wilderness) while releasing the "study" areas from effective wilderness designations. I suspect that the...
  8. Cornell Cowboy

    My Diatribe, 2nd edirtion

    This seems great...for whitetails in the Midwest.
  9. Cornell Cowboy

    County roads passing through private lands?

    You are correct, at least as far as my portion that runs through State land. The public can walk on it, just not drive on it. It is, as you say, very similar to the rights the previous agricultural lessee had on it -- now it's leased by the county for mountain biking and hiking for the public...
  10. Cornell Cowboy

    County roads passing through private lands?

    If it hadn't been for the vehicle restrictions, that's how the State would have had mine too. The section gets used by 100+ people per day, which would amount to an enormous amount of traffic.
  11. Cornell Cowboy

    County roads passing through private lands?

    They would get cited for violating the no motorized vehicle restrictions... the sheriff rarely gets out quickly enough to catch the ones running away. The others have left after I talked with them. The nuances of my situation are somewhat unique, as the public land is part of a pedestrian/biking...
  12. Cornell Cowboy

    County roads passing through private lands?

    Preventing damage to my road and trespassing (remember that the public land my road runs through prohibits motor vehicle use unless specifically authorized). 95% of the time, the folks that ignore the "No motorized vehicles" signs also ignore my private property signs later on. Usually, these...
  13. Cornell Cowboy

    Wildife Task force 90-10, etc.

    They kept citing how NM and MT "valued" their outfitters and that WY should be doing the same.
  14. Cornell Cowboy

    Wildife Task force 90-10, etc.

    I too was listening while working, but you nicely summarized what I heard. It just seems like there's a lot of changes with significant additional confusion created for proposals that benefit a very small portion of hunters, in exchange for a "compromise" that amounts to very little for the...
  15. Cornell Cowboy

    Wildife Task force 90-10, etc.

    Is anyone watching the Wyoming Wildlife Taskforce Meeting now? I submitted comments early when it first formed on but it has fallen off my radar in the past few months. What a change it has undergone! I've never seen a discussion with such lack of focus or clarity. Somehow it seems like the...
  16. Cornell Cowboy

    7MM-08 for youth

    A 223 will always make a great coyote gun!
  17. Cornell Cowboy

    7MM-08 for youth

    Just my two cents. I worked pretty hard to find a rifle that my 9-year old could use to hunt deer that wouldn't make him recoil shy. I ended up going to a 223 compact bolt action shooting 75 gr Swift Scirocco II. He double-lunged his first deer at 130 yards and it fell 60 yards from where he...
  18. Cornell Cowboy

    County roads passing through private lands?

    No. The public land has motor vehicle restrictions on it -- I and my invitees are the only ones permitted to drive on the road. I can't keep people from walking on the road where it crosses the State section, but I absolutely can keep people from driving on it.
  19. Cornell Cowboy

    County roads passing through private lands?

    Not legally -- I feel like no one here has read, purchased, or litigated a private road easement before.
  20. Cornell Cowboy

    County roads passing through private lands?

    Correct!

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