username J
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What’s your plan?
Putting in for the red desert.
Putting in for the red desert.
Wyoming antelope
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Guy Miner
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- Apr 6, 2006
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I've taken five, all in northeast Wyoming... May or may not go back for another. They sure are fun to hunt, and taste great too.
Best of luck! Guy
Best of luck! Guy
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My wife and I will be putting in again this year, north of Laramie, WY
JD338
JD338
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Putting in the same place as JD....
cloverleaf
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- Sep 10, 2006
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Good reminder - maybe I'm already late for WYO. deadline!?! Always forget to check.....Dont see Non Resident Antelope listed. Hate GFP web sites! Got a couple points for SD. Some of those bucks spend the night in Wyoming and migrate across the border for the day. 
CL
Guy- did you take the photo of the buck in your post? Nice shot! Also, 5 pronghorn? I remember when you hadnt had a tag yet. We've been hanging around here a while! CL
CLGuy- did you take the photo of the buck in your post? Nice shot! Also, 5 pronghorn? I remember when you hadnt had a tag yet. We've been hanging around here a while! CL
My pronghorn....well everybody else was....
Well, I am back from one of the most fantastic hunting experiences of my life. I cant say it was a marvelous stalk or a 400 yard shot but I was fortunate enough to hunt with some of the best people anywhere. I was a guest of "helluva hunt" in Douglas Wyoming. special thanks to Marv, Mike...
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salmonchaser
Ammo Smith
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I’ll apply in Oregon, long odds there but it happened once before for me. Hunted near Casper two years ago, that was fun. I’ll apply again in Wyoming and Montana this year.
Guy Miner
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Yes, I photographed that pronghorn while I was in Wyoming for a pronghorn & mule deer hunt a few years ago. He was on the wrong ranch!Good reminder - maybe I'm already late for WYO. deadline!?! Always forget to check.....Dont see Non Resident Antelope listed. Hate GFP web sites! Got a couple points for SD. Some of those bucks spend the night in Wyoming and migrate across the border for the day.
Guy- did you take the photo of the buck in your post? Nice shot! Also, 5 pronghorn? I remember when you hadnt had a tag yet. We've been hanging around here a while! CL
My pronghorn....well everybody else was....
Well, I am back from one of the most fantastic hunting experiences of my life. I cant say it was a marvelous stalk or a 400 yard shot but I was fortunate enough to hunt with some of the best people anywhere. I was a guest of "helluva hunt" in Douglas Wyoming. special thanks to Marv, Mike...forum.nosler.com
I didn't have permission to hunt there, so I settled for the camera out the window of my Jeep... Sigh... Ya, I made five trips to the same ranch over ten years and tagged both a pronghorn and a muley buck every trip. My last trip there was 2020, thought I'd broaden my horizons with some different hunting the past few years. Sometimes I do miss hunting that ranch though - it was dependable. Seldom saw a really big muley or pronghorn, but there was always something. It's sold as a guided hunt, but the rancher didn't mind at all if I'd set out walking on my own for a few hours. I understand that the muley population there has slipped quite a bit the past few years, but it should come back given favorable conditions and a few years of light pressure.
Guy
I believe the end of May for Antelope. Non resident elk was the end of January.Good reminder - maybe I'm already late for WYO. deadline!?! Always forget to check.....Dont see Non Resident Antelope listed. Hate GFP web sites! Got a couple points for SD. Some of those bucks spend the night in Wyoming and migrate across the border for the day.
Guy- did you take the photo of the buck in your post? Nice shot! Also, 5 pronghorn? I remember when you hadnt had a tag yet. We've been hanging around here a while! CL
My pronghorn....well everybody else was....
Well, I am back from one of the most fantastic hunting experiences of my life. I cant say it was a marvelous stalk or a 400 yard shot but I was fortunate enough to hunt with some of the best people anywhere. I was a guest of "helluva hunt" in Douglas Wyoming. special thanks to Marv, Mike...forum.nosler.com
Dr. Vette
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Considering a visit near Gillette if the tag allocations are similar to the last 2 years - as poor as those were.
It has been a rough go throughout the state. There is a unit west of Casper that I've hunted a couple times and where there used to be 500 tags, last year there were 25. Blue Tongue and a brutal winter in 2023 hit the herds hard. I never like to see them bunch up into big herds when it gets cold. A few weeks ago I counted 43 in a herd behind our house. We're on the edge of a neighborhood. It's 100 yards to the neighbor behind me.
Dr. Vette
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Same for the area where we go. I tried for one of those 25 tags, but gave up last year and this year when I realized I was just donating ~$200 to the State of WY.
We appreciate the donation to our wildlife.
No, I completely get it. I go back and forth with tags every year and haven't even applied the last few years due to not being able to draw a youth antelope tag for my son and also the continued spread of CWD in deer and elk. I really have to pick and choose what I apply for. I would venture to estimate that the tags issued have gone down roughly 60% in the last 3-5 years.
The last deer unit I drew had 23 tags issued for 2024 and 1125 resident applicants. Great unit, but bordering on impossible.
Dr. Vette
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In the several years we went, I got mule deer doe tags twice. Once I successfully harvested a doe, and the other time I never could get a shot with them on our land.
They haven’t had MD doe tags there for a few years now, and I doubt they will.
I sent you a PDF for 2024 non-res doe fawn. Happy to post to the thread if anyone else wants to take a peek.
My dad and his hunting buddy finally drew in Oregon last year. They managed to draw Wagontire and it only took 23 points.
Dr. Vette
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Notice how the vast majority of current doe permits are for whitetail deer.
Most areas have zero for mule deer.
I’ve never seen a whitetail buck or doe in the area we hunt, and neither has the ranch owner.
