2025 Wyoming Elk Draw/Questions

[Mr.Ktm]

Look into epic outdoors or huntin fool magizine. Lots of good info on there once you sign up

 

[ThorM465]

Dumb question but how do you hear gun shots if you’re road hunting?

Yes the majority of that unit is void of elk. I hope you didn’t spend any time on the eastern half.

How would we not hear it? We were scouting not hot rodding or rocking out. I should have specified 1 of those days was spent in a UTV.

No we didn't. I never considered that they would be so difficult to find on the west side with all of the "great" spots I had e scouted on onX/GoHunt. We did spend a little time in some BLM in the central section.

You need to look at total mass not animal numbers....here we have all kinds 75-100 lbs does....7 or 8 of those probably eat the same amount as 1 cow elk.

That's probably true. They also have 100x the land mass to forage compared to what our deer have. At least they would if they would do something about all of the deadfall.

 

[Mojave]

How would we not hear it? We were scouting not hot rodding or rocking out. I should have specified 1 of those days was spent in a UTV.

No we didn't. I never considered that they would be so difficult to find on the west side with all of the "great" spots I had e scouted on onX/GoHunt. We did spend a little time in some BLM in the central section.


That's probably true. They also have 100x the land mass to forage compared to what our deer have. At least they would if they would do something about all of the deadfall.

The deadfall will get taken care of on the next burn. We don't sit around crying about deadfall, it is part of western hunting.

We have low quality food sources, zero mast or fruit like acorns or persimmons, grain crops are pretty uncommon in Wyoming. The majority of the agriculture is alfalfa (which is great) but lots of issues with food quality. We have ok minerals, but nothing like what Arizona and Utah have for wildlife.

We also have a lot of totally worthless creosote, Russian olive and cottonwood.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

At least they would if they would do something about all of the deadfall.

It will burn in the next fire...I already know a few units where there will be less dead fall next year.