By "safari-style" I mean having multiple tags for multiple species in an area. My kids are just the right ages that they will all three be eligible for youth hunts together for only a year or two. It sounds like fun to me to make a family trip to Wyoming knowing we could hunt deer, elk, or antelope, whichever we found on a given day. Dollars and cents are going to be an issue, so I'm thinking of doe/cow tags, and "trophy potential" is not really a consideration. Mostly just a family adventure with a good animal numbers and a chance for everyone to have multiple opportunities for success. And lots of steaks in the freezer.
If anyone has done this, how do you get started planning? Not being from Wyoming, I don't have much of a sense of which parts of the state hold more or less of each species. Then, since Wyoming uses different unit boundaries for each species, it's a juggling act to research anything. And then some units have zero antlerless licenses while some have hundreds. Furthermore, antlerless hunts tend to be concentrated around private lands, which makes access an issue. I've looked at the G&F website to read about HMA's and WIA's, but that becomes two more layers to juggle. I'm feeling a little cross-eyed right now. Anybody ever done it?
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If anyone has done this, how do you get started planning? Not being from Wyoming, I don't have much of a sense of which parts of the state hold more or less of each species. Then, since Wyoming uses different unit boundaries for each species, it's a juggling act to research anything. And then some units have zero antlerless licenses while some have hundreds. Furthermore, antlerless hunts tend to be concentrated around private lands, which makes access an issue. I've looked at the G&F website to read about HMA's and WIA's, but that becomes two more layers to juggle. I'm feeling a little cross-eyed right now. Anybody ever done it?