Open carry vacation to Wyoming, day 6 and 7
“Excellent!”:
So, we are having a BLAST! Loving this place. We’re really psyched to move here, and we’ve totally fallen in love with Casper. That’s where we’re pretty sure we’re going to live.
We arrive in Casper and go out to dinner at a Red Lobster full of families with kids, while both openly packing. No one blinked. People saw, but it was no issue. Food was yummy!
Next morning we go out to breakfast at the Cheese Barrel diner on W. 6th and S. Center. Open carried no problem. Food was great, service was nice. Very friendly place.
Ever see a snow shovel in June? Casper has ‘em!
We drove around for a few hours and got used to the lay of the city. Casper is a nice place. We looked at houses that were listed for rent in the paper, to get an idea of how much rentals are, and what different neighborhoods are like.
Stopped at a Walgreens. We open carried, no problem:
Went to lunch at Wonder Bar with a bunch of our new friends. Seven of eight open carried, no one cared, food and service were really good:
We have a far richer social calender in Wyoming than we do in California where we’ve lived for decades.
Four folks, four guns:
The Free Caballeros loafin’ at the Loaf & Jug:
Went to the Poison Spider Shooting Range. Spent about five hours there. Shot many many hundreds of rounds, 9mm, 45mm, .223 and .308. Even a few hundred rounds of .22. We were the only people there, and it’s totally remote. A nice change from the range we go to in Los Angeles that has about 100 people at it at any given time. Would have loved to shoot longer, but a thunderous downpour sent us seeking shelter and dinner (and I suppose it was getting late).
Bowling with guns:
DJ bowls a perfect 300 with a borrowed .45:
Me shooting a cool Israeli Galil
DJ with an AR-15:
I lose my battle rifle virginity! Me shooting the wonderful FAL. Hit a metal deer silhouette at 200 yards. DJ hit it repeatedly too.
Me shooting a Remington 700 (.308:) counter-sniper rifle:
I hit the same deer-sized metal target at 200 yards more than once. DJ hit a cougar-sized target at 300 yards - but only took that one shot, the kick was just a bit much for her post-surgery shoulder after the AK and the FAL. What an elegant weapon that Remington is!
Went out with our new friends afterward to Tacos Mexicanos. Yes there is Mexican food in Casper, and it’s good. And we open carried no problem.
Was a wonderful, gun-tastic day! Much thanks to our generous friends for sharing their weapons and the marvelous range.
Back at the hotel now, about to jump into the hot tub and then sleep. Tomorrow we continue on to other wonderful towns in Wyoming on our tour of liberty and bison!
MEW!
June 9th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
I think we ate at a Blimpie’s in Casper. That’s the extent of my knowledge about the place. Looks like an OK town, though.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Sounds like you had a wonderful time!!!!
How are smokers treated, was it ever illegal indoors?
June 10th, 2009 at 8:13 am
I just love the picture titled “Excellent”
You look like a kid in a candy store!
June 10th, 2009 at 9:14 am
SoCalSerf: It was legal when I was a kid. I remember people smoking in restaurants about 40 years ago.
Big Ugly: I felt exactly like a kid in a candy store! Or like Mr. Burns!
MWD
June 10th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Shawn: I can see Blimpies out the window of our hotel. But Haven’t been there. There’s more to this city for sure!
When I was in a band, my opinion of a town was the bar we played and the girl I slept with. I used to think that Omaha was paradise and New York City was a crap hole.
Come to think of it, with my new standards, I’d probably still feel that way!
MWD
June 10th, 2009 at 10:24 am
I left a comment earlier, but it must’ve been too long or something, LOL. Imagine that.
Anyway, looks like the Appleseed helped your aim a bit. Awesome job on the silhouettes! Great job DJ on the pins too! Them suckers are hard to knock over, just a little off center and the darn things will just spin a half round and sit there rocking back and forth like they’re teasing you. At least that’s the way it was the couple times I’ve shot them. I was shooting a .357 magnum back then though, which doesn’t have quite as heavy of a bullet as a .45. I’m sure that wouldn’t hurt, but either way I’m impressed. You go girl!
Cool to see you got to shoot a .308 too. Now you’re bordering on “big” guns, LOL.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Thanks! And I’ll tell her when she gets back from her job interview!
Bowling pins was a “blast.”
Gotta pack up and check out now. We’re on tour! It’s like when I was in a band, but I love, rather than sometimes hate, my traveling companions, we reach as many people, don’t have to lift gear, and lose a little less money with the Nestlandia tour!
MWD
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Hi Michael,
I just saw your trip pictures thanks to a link from ocdo. It’s great that you got a chance to carry, very freeing isn’t it? I noticed something in the closeups of your gun pictures, you might have heard this already though.
The thumb break strap should be on the hammer side of the beaver tail. In the picture “four folks, four guns” above, the guy top left has it correct. You want to be fully gripping the gun before you release the thumb strap. With it on the grip it is in the way of your grip.
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:59 pm
thanks!