The ultimate in politically incorrect ammo: Jihawg [1]. (Made in Idaho, of course.)
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I recently watched a few episodes of the murder mystery television show Longmire [2], via Netflix. The show is supposedly set in Wyoming. But the timber just didn’t look right to me. So I did some checking and it turns out that they actually film the show in and around Las Vegas, New Mexico. (Coincidentally, the same town where the original Red Dawn [3]
FWIW, I think that Wyoming was a very unrealistic choice for a murder mystery show locale. In just the first season of Longmire there were something like 14 murders in the fictional “Absaroka County.” Talk about a crime spike! If that happened in my county, then I’d be living in undiluted mortal fear. In reality, Wyoming’s murder rate bounces around 2 people per 100,000 per year. In 2011, for example, there were only 11 people murdered statewide–and that in a state with only 568,000 residents. (By the way, just a couple of double homicides [5] thoroughly skews the statistics for some years.) Well, do the math! Absaroka County must a have a murder rate more like Chicago than Cheyenne. If they were making realistic television, then Wyoming would be much better suited to a “mailbox vandalism mystery show” or better yet, a “unsolicited zucchini delivery [6] mystery show.”
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WSU starts sperm bank for honeybees [7]. (Thanks to RBS for the link.)
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Saturday, June 22nd, the Sustainable Business Council is sponsoring their Garden City Localfest [8] at Caras Park in Missoula, Montana from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m..
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Idahoans file lawsuit against Oregon fruit company [9]
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If you want to get some serious pepper spray, then consider Counter Assault [10], which is made in Kalispell, Montana.