Bill,
You are right about a big difference, but I live in the foothills too and the ranchers around here have the same rights as you do to protect their livestock except they can't enter another persons house with a gun out and shoot anything in the house. Several have shot dogs that were attacking their live stock while the dogs were in their fields. But I don't believe that you have the dope problems we do. I have been miles up in the canyons and stumbled across an old camping trail, God only knows how they got it there, that would be a Meth lab. We used to have lions and a variety of other animals and still have several bears and wild hogs that you need to watch out for. But I would prefer to run into them any day than some of these dopers.
Edited to correct some mispelled words. Just so you will know Jamo
Ron
