Wyoming Hero Outdoors

08/22/2026

Would anyone be interested in Trying something new?

We’re looking at transferring a hunting license to a disabled veteran who is not already part of our program. I'm thinking If you’re a Casper resident with a valid hunting license, and you’re willing to take a veteran with a rating of 50% or higher hunting, we would handle the transfer. You provide the license and act as the guide. Our only job is the paperwork.
Our goal is straightforward: get veterans into the field. A lot of us come home from combat zones broken down and struggling even decades later. Sometimes the difference between staying stuck on the couch and finding a little light again is just getting outside with someone who gives a damn.

I don’t know yet if this is a good idea or not, but I’m willing to try it and hear your honest thoughts.

The Requirements would be:

-the Veteran must have a 50%+ disability rating
-The Guide must already hold a transferable license
- The Veteran can be from anywhere but the guide NEEDS to be from Casper.

We've spoken with Game and Fish and we have the green light So If this describes you and you want to take a veteran hunting we would like to transfer the license so you can make it happen. I'm thinking we start off with maybe 2 or 3 transfers.

The goal is to change and even save lives... Lets work together to give it a go.

08/14/2026

Only in Wyoming does a gun winner kneel next to a Corvette holding a Tommy gun and no one bats an eye!

08/14/2026

07/23/2026

We're currently updating how part of our organization operates. Our original goal was to build Wyoming Hero Outdoors into a program that gets veterans outdoors while fostering camaraderie among veterans themselves. Other groups do excellent work bringing veterans together, but we wanted to focus specifically on veterans mentoring and hunting with other veterans. We have an outstanding team of non-veteran guides and generous ranchers who provide both licenses and land, and we're deeply grateful for their support. At its core, our program teaches veterans that there's more to life than sitting on the couch, isolated and struggling. However, recent changes by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission under Chapter 49.4 have made our original model unworkable—veterans can no longer return year after year to hunt with the next generation because licenses are now limited to two per five years. We had recommended one license per year to keep the chain going, but we'll adjust our approach. Our new model will aim to give the broader community the ability to take veterans hunting on a much larger scale. To move forward properly, we need pro bono legal counsel. We're a small nonprofit with no budget for legal fees, so we're looking for a lawyer or legal team willing to review our documents and business model in about a 30-minute conversation. If anyone knows of an attorney who supports veterans in this way, we'd be grateful for the introduction.

07/16/2026

We’re taking care of our own here. Gary Cook, one of our original guides, and his wife Heather are struggling right now, so we’re putting on a fundraiser for them.
Facebook won’t let me post it, so shoot me a message if you want the details. Buy your tickets through the organization and Venmo me, and I’ll send you pictures of your ticket stubs. Every penny goes straight to Gary, Heather, and their family.

07/13/2026

So there’s a veteran in town, an army veteran who’s hunted with us before who was recently lost his leg. An ongoing battle, surgeries gone wrong at the end of the day, they just decided to take it below the knee. He came to our event at the tent, and he was struggling even with his family pushing to get around in that wheelchair
Today Matthew and Melanie Beardsley donated on mobility chair specifically so this Veterans can get around. They were at the tent and they saw him struggling and they chose to help him out.

God bless America

07/06/2026

We’re going to run it the same way we did last year, and we plan to make this our tradition moving forward. The fundraising will first cover the full cost of the hunts and our big community dinner. Any money left over will go straight into our veterans’ food pantry, which runs from December through January — the hardest time of year for many of our brothers and sisters.
From my own experience after the war in Iraq, I noticed something in the first ten years that really stuck with me. Every single one of the guys who took their own lives had one thing in common — they were alone. They were estranged from their families, their wives, and their friends. That’s why we’re out here doing this. We’re fighting that isolation by making sure no veteran has to spend the holidays alone and hungry.
If you can, please head down to the Bayou or the Elks Lodge and grab some raffle tickets. We’re a nonprofit that keeps zero profit — every dollar raised goes to the hunts, the dinner, and feeding veterans when they need it most.
Thank you for your support. Let’s take care of our own.

06/02/2026

In today’s times it’s important to know when to stand up..

There is a public input meeting in Casper on Thursday, June 4, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. at the Wyoming Game and Fish Department Casper Regional Office, 3030 Energy Lane.

Please come support your veterans