I don't care how you kill 'em. Blow 'em up with dynamite. Run 'em over. Punt 'em like footballs. This elicits a good deal of laughter from the 100 or so people I've joined in the small hunting lodge at the Circle G Shooting Park, just south of Gillette, Wyoming.
Mustaches hang like awnings over upper lips.
There are bellies. One wall is decorated with a poster of the cartoon character Wile E. Coyote, overlaid with crosshairs. The game warden is reviewing the contest rules. When the warden is finished and the dinner is over, the competitors hurry out of the lodge, climb into pickup trucks, and head onto the back roads of Campbell County, ready to hunt. These days, however, ranching is in trouble.