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Rock Springs WY.

timeout

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I have a friend that may be temporarily relocating to Rock Springs, WY. What is the terrain like there and what kinds of hunting are available? Also, Is most of the land private or public? Thanks for your insight.
 
Wyoming=land of wind.

We stopped for a picnic when travelling thru. Needed sandwich on paper plate to keep it on the picnic bench. Kids picked up sandwich and plate w/ chips blew away.

Wife and I stopped in same town 5 yrs later and just as windy.
 
wyoming .260 said:
Lot of public land ,but limited tags for antelope and elk. Terrain is mostly windy and desert like.!
Thanks! How about prairie dogs, mule deer, bobcats, coyotes? Lots of snow in the winter?
 
That is why Wyoming begins with a "W" ;)
langenc said:
Wyoming=land of wind.

We stopped for a picnic when travelling thru. Needed sandwich on paper plate to keep it on the picnic bench. Kids picked up sandwich and plate w/ chips blew away.

Wife and I stopped in same town 5 yrs later and just as windy.
 
timeout said:
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Thanks! How about prairie dogs, mule deer, bobcats, coyotes? Lots of snow in the winter?

Yep, those too. Along with Elk, Moose, and lots of other game. Rock Springs is a good jump off point for hunting the rest of the state. I've hunted deer up around Casper/Buffalo and Prong Horn over around Lander. But if you don't like weather issues like wind, snow, rain, and all the rest that goes with it Wyoming probably isn't the place you'll want to set up housekeeping.
 
Rock Springs is an ugly desert wasteland in an active part of Wyoming's oilfield. But you have beautiful mountains not far to the South and also to the West.
 
Lapua40X said:
timeout said:
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Thanks! How about prairie dogs, mule deer, bobcats, coyotes? Lots of snow in the winter?

Yep, those too. Along with Elk, Moose, and lots of other game. Rock Springs is a good jump off point for hunting the rest of the state. I've hunted deer up around Casper/Buffalo and Prong Horn over around Lander. But if you don't like weather issues like wind, snow, rain, and all the rest that goes with it Wyoming probably isn't the place you'll want to set up housekeeping.
Shhhhh .... you can not let it out. let people think its horrible, People are bad. themore people the worse it is!!!!!!!!!!!! :)


P.S. look on google earth, and then look north and east of Rock Springs.It kinda looks where NASA got there Mars pictures from!
 
I lived in Green River in 60's. Hunted antelope south of RSprings, North of Browns Hole. Saw elk every day. Great fishing in FGR (after dam built about 1962) and Green River. LOtsa arrowheads.
Wonder why Craig Co., can't remember the County, wants to secede to Wyoming? Oh, Red Desert, White Mountain, elk everywhere. Sage grouse North a ways. Big Piney, Afton areas in Wy Range pretty close. Knew a rancher on Green River, used to catch wild horses. Front range Co, keeps trying to steal their water. My best catch, my bride, from just south a ways, in Utah!
 
zillla said:
I live here and have since 72. It's a terrible place. Tell your friend he'll hate it here.. The only thing there is an abundance of is imported Texans..

Desert wasteland? Hardly. But that's our secret weapon for keeping the riff raff out. Wind? Not any worse than other places. Laramie and Casper are the worst. Pubic land? We are surrounded by BLM land.. Kick off place for other parts of the state for hunting? If you like to travel ok, but the hardest draw areas in the state are right here and with good reason. Fishing? Two words: Flaming Gorge.

Well if those aren't pictures of a desert, I don't know what is ;)

Had to drive 35 miles out of town just to find green grass???
 
zillla said:
Just what is your problem? You live in Montana.. If you don't like it here than stay there as I am bettin you will. You're the kind a riff raff I am talkin about.

It is what it is. I've been there and know exactly what it's like. Not trying to offend anyone, just letting the OP know what it is, nothing more. It's a desert know matter how you paint it. ALL of my very good friends and co-workers who were born and raised in Wyoming agree with me as well. They all think of Rock Springs as the "black eye" of Wyoming.

PS: And don't you worry, this "riff raff" won't ever be coming down to that dump again.
 
I lived in Green River for a few years while the oil boom was on, worked in around Rock Springs. It is a high desert, lots of sage brush, buttes and mesas, and yes it is windy, sometimes extremely so.

Lots of pds, coyotes, antelope and mulies around Rock Springs, some elk but folks are right, it isn't the nicest part of WY by a long shot. Its not a bad place at all but a cple hrs north and you get up around Pinedale and into the mountains, that's where its really beautiful and lots of elk.
 
Thanks for all the replies. This will give my friend a good idea of what to expect terrain and game wise. I know he would like to shoot some prairie dogs while there. I would imagine elk would take some years of applying for a chance at one of those. I really appreciate the extra effort to post the pictures. We all have to be somewhere. Most times where you are is what you make of it. As usual, you Accurate Shooter fellows have been very helpful!
 
I've got 160 acres in Sweetwater, just outside of Carbon County on the north side of 80. It's not the prettiest land, but it's mine. There's plenty of pd's, NICE pronghorn, mule deer, coyotes. The Elk show up every year. 40 miles south is Medicine Bow, close enough for me, here where I live in N.Florida you can't drive 40 miles and see anything like that!!! Soon I'll have a little something out there, for semi annual.
 
Dgd6mm said:
I've got 160 acres in Sweetwater, just outside of Carbon County on the north side of 80. It's not the prettiest land, but it's mine. There's plenty of pd's, NICE pronghorn, mule deer, coyotes. The Elk show up every year. 40 miles south is Medicine Bow, close enough for me, here where I live in N.Florida you can't drive 40 miles and see anything like that!!! Soon I'll have a little something out there, for semi annual.

I live in N. FL as well, I am thinking of moving my rifle building business to SE Wyoming after my kids graduate. Small world!
 
wapiti25 said:
Nobody is talking about the cold winters, it will be a shock to those from Florida.

You think, I was born in Albany, New York...My buddy that I grew up with down in S. Florida, and he was born in S. FL. bought property next to mine. He has been living out there ever since, almost ten years now.
About six years ago I was working out there for him, he told me then, I'll never go back to Fl. And he's still there, he has not been back yet.

I'm going to be semi-annual....
 
timeout said:
wyoming .260 said:
Lot of public land ,but limited tags for antelope and elk. Terrain is mostly windy and desert like.!
Thanks! How about prairie dogs, mule deer, bobcats, coyotes? Lots of snow in the winter?

Shot a lot of Prarie Dogs years ago. I was a Corporate Pilot and would have layovers and we shot many Dogs!
 

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