Hard one to answer. There are something like 130 Seperate Elk areas in Wyoming. They can each have a different set of regs like opening, closing, general, limited quota, spikes excluded, cow only, closed to hunting, stuff like that. However, many of them have the same regs as another. Especially those areas in the same geographical location.
BUT! Most areas start archery on Sept 1 to Sept 30. And rifle Oct 15 - 31st. You have to check rewgs to make sure.
See if this helps link to the info: http://gf.state.wy.us/wildlife/hunti...dent/index.asp
There are rifle areas that go into December most years, but that can change. An unfortunate fact about our G&F is that they only have "TENTATIVE" regs this time of year for resident and non-resident. Kind of sucks. A guy has to make his hunting trip plans based on tentative regs!
Hope this helps.