"dazed and confuzzed" <dedmann@comcast_remove.net> wrote in message
news:WtWdnaUL--

Will it be well marked by road kill?

I drove up from Ft. Lauderdale to Louisville where I linked up with Rick.
From there, we went where Mapquest/Garmin/TomTom suggested to get to KC,
Missouri. We diverted a bit to pick up a couple of portable shooting benches
from Cabala's in KC, Kansas and drove on to Kaycee, where we were staying.

We spent three days shooting. Two of them were disappointing. The wind was
blowing like crazy, making it very hard to manage the long shots we came
for. I had a new Ruger 204, which shoots a very light bullet at very high
velocity. With the wind, I could not even get it sighted in, let alone hit
anything at long distances. As I recall, Rick's 17 didn't even come out of
the bag. My .223, with it's heavier bullets, did better and my 22-250, with
the same 60 grain bullets, but with a lot more velocity, did even better. My
longest successful shot was from just under 600 yards.  The group we joined
were hunting deer and antelope. They were successful.  The number of
antelope in the area are remarkable. They appear truly stupid, making it
hard to understand how there can be any left. Management of the herd must be
quite good. When shooting at prairie dogs, we had to stop several times
because antelope wandered in line with our shots. Had we been hunting them,
we would have filled out tags the first day, or the second, or the third. In
fact, one of the hunters, who had an extra doe tag, stopped by one
afternoon, shot his doe, and packed up and was gone in just a few minutes.

Contrary to the expectations of some liberals in the group, nobody in our
party, or anybody we are aware of that was in the area, damaged anything or
any animal they were not specifically authorized to shoot.  We did better
than the cops in Wisconsin.

From there, we headed to Yellowstone. A snow storm followed us into the
southern entrance to the park. It caught up with us at night, while we were
still in the park. We paid $25 to drive through the park at night, in the
snow, and saw nothing but the road . . . when we could see the road. It was
an E ticket ride for sure. We made it safely out the eastern entrance and
did not look back. The park was closed the whole time we were near enough to
have returned.

We drove all over Wyoming and parts of SD.  We saw Cody, Wy, Mt. Rushmore,
the Devil's Tower, Hell's Half Acre, a couple of waterfalls, the Crazy Horse
Memorial, Wall Drug Store and the Corn Palace. I've probably forgotten some
of what we did, but you may assume we covered a lot of miles and shot a lot
of pictures.

We ran out of things we wanted to see and headed back to Kentucky a couple
days early. I drove straight through from KY to Ft. Lauderdale yesterday, a
bit over a thousand miles. I was ready to be home. Our cat was most pleased
to see me and I was happy to see her.  My wife and Rick's return to Ft.
Lauderdale tomorrow.

Lee