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Calling all Wyo nonres! Are you aware that with 90/10 that 1/2 of the current high demand nonres tags would be stripped from nonres? Cutting nonres limited tags in 1/2 carries a major impact to nonres while it only provides a handful more tags/unit to Wyoming residents. If you think point...

Buzz, you were questioning about younger bucks in the 2 to 3 1/2 year classes even making B&C. Straight from the horse's mouth....."I doubt there's many, if any B&C bucks in Wyoming that are 2 years old...probably a handful at 3 years old. A vast, vast majority are 4+." In reality there are...

I've always wondered about age and trophy potential of B&C pronghorn bucks. It's been an eye-opener once I started looking into this in more detail. Similar to what Buzz and JM have said I always thought that it took 4 to 6+ years to produce B&C pronghorn bucks but it's been a shocker to learn...

For all it's worth.....Grimmetts post on hunttalk was back in 2005 when he was guiding in NM and AZ. He started guiding in Wyoming in 2006.

Buzz, I agree with you that there are a lot of 4 1/2 year old B&C bucks from Wyo. Twist and twirl things all you want but there are more B&C 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 year old B&C bucks harvested in Wyo and the Western US than you may think! I guess we will agree to disagree on this? Let's go back to...

Good for you Buzz! That's great you and your buddy Larry have harvested a few older age bucks. Grimmetts have harvested 128 bucks that are 82+ B&C in Wyoming since 2006 so have a pretty decent pool of B&C bucks. Since most of their bucks are lab tested for age they have a pretty a good...

Buzz........Like usual you are rambling in circles! Twisting and turning facts with our odd comments? The Boone and Crockett article mentions this fact: "The highest scoring Boone and Crockett pronghorn trophies, in which the animals’ ages are known, are three years old or younger!" I think...

Buzz, as always we will agree to disagree on another topic! I almost always try to have sound data to back up my statements. Obviously there are exceptions to my comments above. I guess I would ask you this question. If you invested 14 years of applying for a trophy Wyo antelope unit would...

I've been hunting trophy Wyo antelope since I was a kid (50ish years). Two of my all time best bucks were shot in years with historic drought. In fact, one of the best year's I have seen for Wyo B&C entries was in a historic drought year. I waited years for mild winters and a moist spring to...

I use and abuse a kifaru duplex frame with emr2 bag. It may a little more than an ultralight but it’s so comfortable I hardly know it’s on my back. I can cinch down small loads when scouting or pack out bulky 100 lb loads. I wouldn’t worry about the weight of a pack! I can pretty much...

I bought an almost new Swaro off the rockslide classified adds for about that price. Well worth every penny!

There's a lot more to antelope horn growth than conditions that exist in 1 particular year! I've learned a great deal over the years from what I've seen in the field as well as learned from several knowledgeable antelope hunters/guides. It helps to know the conditions that exist, winterkill...

One of the toughest parts in the lower 48 western states is drawing a tag. You may not draw in your lifetime?

The best units often change from 1 year to the next depending on winters, moisture, fawn recruitment, etc.

Do yourself a favor and buy the best...Leica or Swaro! I bit the bullet a couple years ago by buying a pair of Leica bino-rangefinder combo. No need to buy both. It used to be a pain in the rear having to go back and forth between binos and rangefinders before a shot. I bought a new pair of...

Here's a map to give you started: https://www.nwtf.org/hunt/wild-turkey-basics/habitat Many years ago turkeys were scattered across the mid west and west. Turkeys obviously moved with time and it's getting tougher and tougher to find pure strains. Unfortunately Western states didn't stay...

I wonder if they’ll have season quotas out soon?

Colo continues to be one of the nonres friendly states in the West. I'm sure a lot of guys are applying for a tag rather than pts in 2021 to take full advantage of the later deer rifle dates. I thought it was time to get the monkey off my back. I applied for a 2nd season tag with 17 res pts...

I travel to Alaska on a fairly regular basis. It’s a lot cheaper to pay excess baggage fees on airlines rather than sending up and/or back any other way. The other nice thing is that it is waiting for you still frozen at the airport. Last trip I paid $50 each to ship 5 x 50lb insulated fish...

I think the RWF have come a long ways from what they were when they first started. Obviously it helps to shop around and know all the details of each hunt. Some ranches can be loaded with cow elk hunters the same dates as bull. Some ranches may be the toughest time of year to hunt a...