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For One Colorado Rancher, An AR-15 Is A Tool To Protect His Herd

By Leigh Paterson

Published December 17, 2018 at 10:49 PM EST

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Of the dozens of firearms Scott Shepherd owns, he says the AR-15 is probably his favorite. [Leigh Paterson / KUNC] — Of the dozens of firearms Scott Shepherd owns, he says the AR-15 is probably his favorite.

Scott and JJ Shepherd live in a white house at the end of a dirt road in Walden, Colorado, a small town near the Wyoming border.

The picture window above the sink in their kitchen frames a view: black cattle and a barn in the foreground, mountains in the distance, dark and dusted with snow.