Wyoming "Limited Public Access" Leftover licenses

[WapitiBob]

Create an overlay of the roads you want to travel on and send it to the person who has the authority to tell you which roads have easements and if/where that easement ends. An email to the head of the local BLM will get you the appropriate contact info within that local office.

 

[Againstthewind]

Create an overlay of the roads you want to travel on and send it to the person who has the authority to tell you which roads have easements and if/where that easement ends. An email to the head of the local BLM will get you the appropriate contact info within that local office.

That is probably the most sure way, I would say. In this area we run into the chips, even this years chips, not being current enough with all the leases and transactions. The chips don't tell much about if a road is public or private from what I have played with either, just the land around it, but I might have missed something on them. Sorry to hear that the ranchers are getting grouchy. I don't like to call ever, and am pretty fortunate not to need to most of the time. Calling early (its a little late now, sorry) is the best way to avoid that before they get the rush after the draw results come out.

 

[LCH]

That is probably the most sure way, I would say. In this area we run into the chips, even this years chips, not being current enough with all the leases and transactions. The chips don't tell much about if a road is public or private from what I have played with either, just the land around it, but I might have missed something on them. Sorry to hear that the ranchers are getting grouchy. I don't like to call ever, and am pretty fortunate not to need to most of the time. Calling early (its a little late now, sorry) is the best way to avoid that before they get the rush after the draw results come out.

What exactly do you mean by leases? I once had a rancher try to bluff me about the state land I was on being off limits to hunting, since he leased it from the state. That's a grazing lease, not a hunting lease, which he admitted when I called him on it. I'm not aware of any instances in Wyoming where the state or Feds lease hunting rights to anyone.

 

[cntryep3614]

by chips you mean gps chips? (like my garmin and Wyoming onyx hunt map) It should keep me on the state land but as far as I know it says nothing about the ownership of the roads. I wish I would have had a little bit more knowledge before I bought the gps btw I hate it. seems hard to navigate and accomplish anything on Garmin Etrex 40

 

[kesand72]

I surely wish that public road ownership on the chips would show up in neon ( take your pick; pink, purple, or green for go ) when you get them!!

 

[Musket Man]

Some of those units will most likely have tags left when the season starts and some probably wont sell out at all. Typically the worse access is the longer tags will be left. That GPS chip will be your best friend in these units. I have not used the gps you have but it works very well in my Garmin Oregon 450t.

 

[sambo3006]

Most counties have websites with a map and list of public roads. Go to those websites and look at the maps. Take that information and look at a public land map and make sure the roads you want to travel are actually public. And that you can get to the public land.

I did that last year when I hunted unit 22 on a left over buck and doe tag after not drawing other states. Do your research before hand so you know what public land is accessible by public road. I went in mid-October for a solo 3 day hunt. I probably put on 300 miles in 3 days hitting lots of different parcels. I didn't see large amounts of antelope but they were there. I shot a doe on the second day and killed my buck on the third day, a decent 12" buck. Out of perhaps 15 bucks I saw on public in 3 days, he was the only one that had cutters to any extent and the only one with decent sweep back to his horns. Even on private the biggest buck I saw was probably 75".

I take pride in doing it myself on public land but if you can't do the research ahead of time, paying a tresspass fee is the way to go for sure. My first two bucks were taken on private land on two day tresspass fee hunts near Gillette and scored low 70's. (That was 20+ years ago before I knew what a big one was. Probably could have shot bigger if I'd held out.) My second two bucks were taken in the last 4 years on left over tags in different units on BLM and both were 12" bucks. I'm just as proud of those medium sized bucks as I am of the bigger ones due to the effort involved.

 

[Murdy]

I've only been to Wyoming once and I bought over the counter tags for unit 16. That was 2 years ago. There were antelope all over the area but there were also hunters all over. Everyone was road hunting and people were driving vehicles where they shouldn't have.

Antelope are all over. Just be prepared to compete on the public land with all the other hunters.

I drove from michigan and will be driving back again this fall with a leftover license.

For what it's worth, I hunted this area last year late in the season. I saw some hunters on the weekend, but very few during the week, and by about Tuesday, I started seeing more antelope on public land -- not a ton, compared to private, but some

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

A fella for sure needs a GPS with a land status chip in these areas.

This is a must! Investing in a NR tag, cost of the trip and other incidentals will make the cost of a good GPS & chip seem cheap.