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bajaguy
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bajabuddha
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When I was a teenager a Wyoming rancher would give us each a case (12 boxes of 50 rounds) of .22 rounds due to cattle injuries in their burrows. Back
then we called 'em "pop-guts" (a play on "pot-guts").
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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John Harper
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Quote: Originally posted by bajabuddha  | | When I was a teenager a Wyoming rancher would give us each a case (12 boxes of 50 rounds) of .22 rounds due to cattle injuries in their burrows. Back
then we called 'em "pop-guts" (a play on "pot-guts"). |
Where did you live in Wyoming?
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bajabuddha
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Was living in Salt Lake City at the time, did the plinking in SW Wildoming, just up outa Echo Canyon.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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bajabuddha
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Another fun ground squirrel story: A former owner of Ray's Tavern in Green River UT always had a dream of retiring and running a fishing guide
service on Lake Bowell. Then along came the Navajo coal fired power plant down by Page, AZ and the byproduct was acid rain, so the big stripers
turned into little toothpicks and the fishery crashed, just about the time he was ready to cut loose.
So, being the dreamer/schemer he was, he decided to try another kind of fishing; for ground squirrels or prairie dogs which are both very abundant in
that desert area. He talked about setting up his boat with a cooler of pop/beer/lunch, taking out 'fishermen' on the desert to a well-stocked
'squirrel-ry', setting up poles with slip-nooses on the lines and putting the nooses around the burrow mouths. The intrepid hunters would kick back
under the Bimini top sipping suds, and when the Li'l beggars would rise up, YANK! FISH ON !!!!
Never did say what he'd do with the rascals. 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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John Harper
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I was in Cokeville, Afton, and Kemmerer area. Fished Hobble Creek, Lake Alice, Ham's Fork, and Smith's Fork. Drove up to Tri-Basin Divide and took
it all the way to Alpine, fishing the Greys and the Little Greys rivers. The Little Grey's was epic fishing for Snake River Cutthroats. I probably
C&R'd 50 trout in about 3 hours on the Little Greys, from dinks to monsters. Almost every drift of the fly got hit.
John
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