I want to take my son on a antelope hunt in Wyoming. Can anyone tell me a really good unit? I was told by the Game and Fish Dept. that the NorthEast corner of the state is the best. Anyone have a specific unit that they know is good and has fairly good public access or access at a reasonable rate? I am told you can pay a tresspass fee to hunt on private land for like $50.00-$200.00 per person? So if I can find the list of landowners to do this, I might just make a few calls and pay the fee to have a better hunt.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have never hunted in Wyoming before or even been there!!
Thanks ahead of time for any help.

You need to get and license application filled out immediately and sent in. The deadline is fast approaching (march 15th, I believe). Unit 28 has a lot of goats, but little public land. Tresspas fee would be the norm. You need to call the G&F and get them to email you a landowner list. Call those numbers and find a place to hunt.

The hunt areas around Casper have decent goats, really good numbers, and tons of public land. Don't waste your money paying trespass fees in Wyoming. There is public land everywhere you go, and you can shoot goats that are just as big or bigger than the ones you will find on private land. One area you might want to consider looking at is area 48. It's very accessable, there are tons of antelope, the drawing odds are pretty good (100% for resident, not sure about non-resident), and there is public land everywhere. It's some pretty neat country too, with the Miracle Mile on the west side of the area if you want to do some fishing (and if you're willing to fight off all of the greenies).

As a non-resident you will want to consult the non-resident draw probabilities for Wyoming pronghorn units. Some have very good odds -- 100% -- and some have very poor odds -- some less than 10%. I have hunted in unit 23 near Gillette and can tell you that the odds of drawing there are very high (100% in many recent years) and there are lots of pronghorns there -- although the horn size is not trophy sized, generally speaking. You will want to submit a party application. Read your instruction booklet to figure out how to submit this party application. Call the Buffalo office of the Wyoming Department of Fish and Game for landowners accepting trespass fees in the Gillette area and then call some of these landowners. Alternately, you can find public land and hunt on public land.

Hunting success is about 90% in Wyoming. You WILL take your pronghorns. Have a plan for taking care of the meat. Many people recommend field dressing immediately and getting the animal skinned, quartered, and on ice quickly.

If you hunt in an area with lots of pronghorns, such as unit 23 near Gillette, if you blow one stalk don't fret because you can locate another group of pronghorns immediately and start another stalk on them. Take binoculars to locate the pronghorns and identify an probable stalking approach. Use a rifle with a scope chambered in a flat shooting cartridge such as .243, .25-06, .270, .30-06, .300 Win mag, or any of a large number of other flat shooting cartridges. Pronghorn are not difficult to kill.

By the way, I have noticed that they sometimes stand still after you shoot them and don't fall to the ground for maybe 10 to 15 seconds, though they are fatally hit. You can unnecessarily pour additional bullets into them, spoiling meat unnecessarily, in this case. If you have reason to believe you made a good shot you might give the animal about 20 seconds to fall down before shooting a second time. Others may feel this advice is poorly thought out, so consider other opinions on this. It is hard to be patient and wait on them in this case -- those 20 seconds seem to drag on forever!!!

One thing not mentioned, your son needs to be 12 years old by the time the season opens to hunt big game in Wyoming. And any person born on or after Jan 1, 1966 (40 years old) must provide a hunter safety certificate of completion.
I strongly advise:
*Use of flat shooting calibers emntioned above. PRACTICE shooting out to 300 yards.
*Know your balistics. Bullet drop at certain yardages.
*Bring water jugs and cooler(s) big enough to hold 4 quarters, etc. because in order to fully appreciate Antelope meat at the dinner table, you should field dress it on site, skin it out, and wash it down good, then wrap in plastic and put on ice in cooler (not freezer). Otherwise, it can get gammey tasting and you've got 50 pounds of jerky.
*As mentioned, get aps in soon and be sure to check the "Party Application Block". This ensures that all who apply get a licence. All aps and instructions are available at the Wyoming G&F website.
As far as where? . . . The application allows you up to 3 choices. 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Because of the sheer number of animals, huge amounts of public land (BLM), liklyhood of drawing,and ease of access, I'd have to recommend an area called the Shirley Basin. Hunt area 47 covers most if not all of it. It is north of Medicine bow and south of Casper. The only downside is that there is not much more to eat there than sage brush and prarie grasses so some would say the diet adversly effects the taste of the meat. I don't necessarily agree. I believe quick and proper handling of the game is much more important than what it ate.

Pretty windy aren't I? Its usually windy here in Wyoming too!

Don't mess with a trespass fee. Get maps from the Bureau ofLand Management; you can get one for the whole state and then check on Wyoming's Fish and Game website and find an area that is close to 100 percent draw rate. Then apply to one of those or several according to anarea with lots of public land that you like. Once you get your tags, you can order smaller maps from the BLM that are more specific to the area you get your tag. Good luck, it's a fun hunt.

If you want smaller scale maps after you look at the BLM maps the USGS quad maps are the way to go.

Couple more things . . .
If you are stuck on hunting around Gillette (NE Wyoming), go to the G&F site and go to "Public Access" link. There is a lot of private land that is available in Wyoming called "Walk-In areas" and "Hunter Management Areas". They are listed by county. The Walk-Ins are just that, the HMA's require written permission which you can apply for and recieve right off the web site.
As far as maps, I like the book by DeLorme called "Wyoming Gazeteer and Atlas". It is an atlas showing the entire state. Shows land ownership and highways and such. Blue: state, orange: BLM, green: Nat'l Forrest, etc. DeLorme makes them for a lot of states.

Are there any Mulie oppourtunities in the areas stated for Antelopes. Where would I want to do that and What are the odds? Thanks. I am planning a trip to Montana or Wyoming and want a chance at antelope or Mulies.

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