Originally Posted by
Topgun 3006
Thanks again! I just figured that with the Pike County area now being the big deer mecca that it is that it wouldn't be that easy to get a tag. Like you mentioned though, getting a tag and finding a decent place to hunt are two different things. In my younger years all I did was bow and gun hunt for whitetails. Then in the early 90s I went out to Wyoming and it's so great out there with all the different animals that I've been going out there every Fall ever since. I met several residents out there that are now great friends along with a couple ranchers that I help out a little in exchange for a little elk hunting now and then such that it's what I look forward to every year with my hunting here not having that big of a priority these days. I'm heading out there in 3 weeks for two months and will be helping them on elk and antelope hunts and I have a guided horseback hunt for big mulies up in the high country south of Jackson in late September myself and will probably buy a leftover cow elk tag to use during October where we always hunt near the BigHorn Mountains.
Wyoming is pretty hard to beat. Ive never hunted there but Ive been there. It is beautiful. I was surprised to see so many animals just roaming about outside the parks. In pike in certain areas you can see the deer in huge numbers coming out right before dark but in Wyoming it seemed to be all day long. I was always seeing something roaming about.