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LittleLebowski
11-20-2013, 01:39 PM
My brother (http://rationalgun.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-brothers-award-writeup.html), father, and I.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/IMG_2511_zpse05446b8.jpg

Me herding.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/null_zps7af7e08e.jpg

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/null_zpsc194d658.jpg

Sunrise from the front porch

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/null_zps1decaf57.jpg

rsa-otc
11-20-2013, 02:05 PM
Trying not to hate right now, jealous. :o

My family farm lost in my parents divorce. :mad:

Many a happy childhood carefree day spent wandering the field, pastures and woods.

LittleLebowski
11-20-2013, 02:11 PM
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/null_zpsb1c20cf7.jpg

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justintime
11-20-2013, 02:12 PM
I wish it snowed in Texas.

JV_
11-20-2013, 02:13 PM
Yea, there's no family resemblance between you three :p

LittleLebowski
11-20-2013, 02:16 PM
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/null_zpsb70f3b3f.jpg

Three legged Lab retreiving a shot duck. Yes, there was ice on the water he was swimming in. Having three legs does not slow him down at all. Guy with the duck works for us.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/null_zpsdfdfa838.jpg

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/null_zpsabf7bdeb.jpg

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LittleLebowski
11-20-2013, 02:18 PM
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/null_zpsc1add9cf.jpg

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LittleLebowski
11-20-2013, 02:32 PM
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/Wyoming/null_zps693041b8.jpg

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/Wyoming/null_zps0dd61460.jpg

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LittleLebowski
11-20-2013, 02:43 PM
The ranch houses, arena, and corral.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/null_zps7158e66d.jpg

This is a common sight.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/null_zpsabf7bfcc.jpg

justintime
11-20-2013, 02:43 PM
Haha I have one of those shots too

http://i1043.photobucket.com/albums/b431/davisjustin10/CF3FA94A-7F7C-4E5A-98B2-C0D98E819B1D-12189-00000870DF9B5AFC_zpsa16babdd.jpg

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LittleLebowski
11-20-2013, 02:44 PM
Taken on the ranch.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/BJSheperdsonAntelope.jpg

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/baxshep/100_0044.jpg

LittleLebowski
11-20-2013, 02:50 PM
How's your AAC-SD treating ya?

Clyde from Carolina
11-20-2013, 02:52 PM
You're a blessed Dude. I hope if I can come back as something else in another life it will be as a Westerner.

Great photos and thanks for posting them. I especially like the shot from the front porch.

justintime
11-20-2013, 03:47 PM
How's your AAC-SD treating ya?

It is an awesome rifle rifle for what it is. I like how handy it is as mine has a 16" barrel. pretty easy to stay on a 10" at 800 yards which is more than I need out of it :D I thought I had ruined it as my friend dropped it out of a mule and it cartwheeled multiple times over the crown. Held zero and still works like a champ ;) I had a 20" barreled version as well and it was just too heavy to lug around everywhere.

Matt O
11-20-2013, 04:56 PM
Those are some great pics man - you're very lucky to have had the opportunity to grow up in that sort of an environment. I hope your family can continue to operate the ranch for generations to come.

NETim
11-20-2013, 05:27 PM
And there's a girl behind every tree! (Find a tree though.) :)

Love Wyoming.

Suvorov
11-20-2013, 05:42 PM
Wonderful photos!

Really makes me wish I was still there, the fact that I find myself above it at 36000 feet every week only makes it worse. If only I had the coin to purchase some land before I left - now there is only the hope and dream of retiring there.


And there's a girl behind every tree! (Find a tree though.) :)

Love Wyoming.

Ain't that the truth though. For all my love of Wyoming, I do have to admit that it wasn't the best place for a single guy as far as ratios were concerned. Even U.W. had more guys than girls in the student body and forget it if you were an engineering student. Fort Collins, Boulder, and Greeley were our salvation. Heck, I even remember hanging out with my buddy in Scotts Bluff thinking how good they had it ;)

SeriousStudent
11-20-2013, 06:54 PM
Purty place. Good to see your father, brother and yourself out on the land. That's a source of strength to any man.

I miss our place so bad sometimes, it's like a part of my soul was clawed out. In our family for 70 years, then lost to pay off the inheritance taxes.

I've driven out there a couple of times, but it's just not the same. Do whatever you have to do to keep your ranch.

1911Nut
11-20-2013, 09:07 PM
Gorgeous. But beyond just the scenery. It's the lifestyle.

I was raised on a 68 section cattle ranch in western NM/eastern AZ (right on the state line with the house about a mile east of the AZ/NM state line). Over the years and with the passing of my grandfather and my uncle and some divorce thrown in for good measure, all the property is now broken up into smaller pieces and owned by at least two owners along with national forest land.

A power line built through the property opened roads to regular pickups that can make a trip from the front of the property to the back of the property in an hour when it used to take real 4WD and half a day. The hunting is ruined. I can clearly remember when we would go two weeks without a visitor, and now it seems there is somebody standing on every road curve and behind every tree.

I returned for a final mule deer hunt four years ago and while it stirred strong emotions to see the old place, along with some corrals I had personally built, it was just not the same. Don't know if I'll ever muster up the gumption to go back.

I admire any and everyone who has roots in places like this and especially those who have the means and opportunity to hold on to it for posterity. God bless you and your family.

jlw
11-20-2013, 09:22 PM
Good stuff!!

I grew up on what had been my grandfather's dairy. My uncle is still running Angus/Limo crosses there.

Sadly, my horse of 25 years went to the end of the trail a few years ago.

Joseph B.
11-20-2013, 09:50 PM
Nice place!

LittleLebowski
11-21-2013, 06:59 AM
I was raised on a 68 section cattle ranch in western NM/eastern AZ

Damn....

ToddG
11-21-2013, 11:16 AM
How far is the nearest Chipotle?

LittleLebowski
11-21-2013, 11:23 AM
How far is the nearest Chipotle?

163 miles.

ToddG
11-21-2013, 11:47 AM
163 miles.

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/UNACCEPTABLE_e48fc6_2502516.jpg

LittleLebowski
11-21-2013, 11:51 AM
Sure if you don't like steak :D

NickA
11-21-2013, 12:12 PM
Insanely jealous, what a beautiful place and a blessing for your family. A friend has a place (not nearly as big as yours, but big enough) that's been in his family a few hundred years and we used to go down a few times a year to hunt or just run around in the great wide open. Sadly it's on the way out of the family due to his brothers disinterest; it's a cryin' shame.
I guess my ancestors didn't want to burden our family with any valuable property that we'd have to keep track of :mad:

justintime
11-21-2013, 02:36 PM
Sure if you don't like steak :D

that's the best part about ranches, there is no being lazy and running for cheap fast food! Gotta cook every night and you end up eating really well ;)

LittleLebowski
11-21-2013, 02:45 PM
that's the best part about ranches, there is no being lazy and running for cheap fast food! Gotta cook every night and you end up eating really well ;)

Stop scaring ToddG away!

justintime
11-21-2013, 02:56 PM
Stop scaring ToddG away!

just convince him that picking up firewood is a fun game and the person who comes back with the most doesn't have to cook ;) which really at night there is not much to do besides cook :P

SecondsCount
11-22-2013, 12:23 AM
It is all fun and games till the wind starts blowing or the cows show up in your front yard.

I live on the edge of about 200 acres and I walked out tonight to find half the herd that escaped from the neighboring field gnawing on my lawn. First thought was STEAK! but like a good neighbor, Mrs. SC called the rancher.

LittleLebowski
11-22-2013, 06:09 AM
The wind does blow a bit in Wyoming.....

justintime
11-22-2013, 07:46 AM
Seems like a fun place to get into extreme long range shooting.

sammage
11-22-2013, 02:40 PM
Great photos, looks like central Wyoming, maybe Natrona County? Last month I got to visit my uncle in Casper, and hunted some antelope with him. Beautiful country out there, I need to find a job to relocate.

LittleLebowski
11-22-2013, 04:53 PM
Great photos, looks like central Wyoming, maybe Natrona County? Last month I got to visit my uncle in Casper, and hunted some antelope with him. Beautiful country out there, I need to find a job to relocate.

Near Douglas, actually.

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Tamara
11-23-2013, 11:08 AM
Great photos, looks like central Wyoming, maybe Natrona County? Last month I got to visit my uncle in Casper, and hunted some antelope with him. Beautiful country out there, I need to find a job to relocate.

Antelope hunting? Every time I get out west, I wanna start house hunting.

LittleLebowski
11-23-2013, 11:29 AM
Antelope hunting? Every time I get out west, I wanna start house hunting.

I like Fort Laramie Ranch (http://www.newmanrealty.net/properties.php?PropertyType=Farm). Good realtor, I know him.