Umpqua Hunter
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For those long drives for hunting trips I keep a list of audio books I want to listen to. It really helps the time pass.
Well I did it...
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Rooster410
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Wyoming will not disapoint, I concur with the audio books, I would only add a big bag of spitz and your drive will fly by.
50bowhunter
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I'm coming from western VA. 25 hours to Douglas and I'd peddle a bicycle if I had to.
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Umpqua Hunter
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So to be serious, my Wyoming hunt plans really have been about as simple as I have stated. We've hunted there many times, and we typically look for and area gentle terrain topo lines with lots of public. I have gotten specific advice twice on antelope hunts, one was on a small section of public on an easy to draw tag, the other was my most recent tag and a bio had been encouraging me to apply for the unit, so I asked where he would focus and we narrowed it to the NW corner of that unit. Other than that we have just shown up and start hunting.
Ever since one of my first Wyoming antelope hunts (around 1984) we have stopped going for the opener. I far prefer to go at least after the second weekend of the season and you have the place to yourself with most hunters tagged out and moving on to deer.
I have learned over the years that antelope are quite territorial. My next hunt will be after the opener (minimal hunting pressure) and include a Phone Skope and a GPS to "inventory" a bunch of bucks with photos and then go back and hunt the best bucks.
Ever since one of my first Wyoming antelope hunts (around 1984) we have stopped going for the opener. I far prefer to go at least after the second weekend of the season and you have the place to yourself with most hunters tagged out and moving on to deer.
I have learned over the years that antelope are quite territorial. My next hunt will be after the opener (minimal hunting pressure) and include a Phone Skope and a GPS to "inventory" a bunch of bucks with photos and then go back and hunt the best bucks.
Thanks for the information everyone. I plan on skipping opening weekend, heading over friday morning before second weekend from eastern oregon (about an hour from boise in I-84). I was thinking about camping at one of the campgrounds at fontanelle reservoir and just hitting the roads for a while and look over the country. I will more than likely be solo. Kinda sucks not having anyone with you, but at the same time I wont have someone talking me into shooting something too early. I am planning to take a full week including the two weekends, so I will have plenty of time to just hang out and wait for the right buck I think...of course I have to draw the tag first...