Reasonable points

[bnewt3]

Looking at hunt planners for WY, it looks like for a non-resident ill need minimum 6 points, probably more like 7 or 8 to draw a unit with good harvest %(good animal #s), good amount of accessible, public land, and not a type 2 private land tag.

Does that sound right?

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Not in all cases. I know units that fit SOME of your definitions that only take 3 or 4 , they used to take 1 or 2 a few years ago. You have to stay on top of the conditions that are causing the extra points. Wyoming has had some tough winters and dieoff of antelope. It changes from year to year and their biologists do a good job of adjusting the tag numbers. My favorite antelope has had no doe/fawn tags for 5 years and fewer buck tags also. Demand is still there for fewer tags, point required to draw a tag go up.
Pick your unit and do some historical research of the data and see what is happening.

 

[Chad E]

The points required to get "good" antelope tags really keep creeping at an accelerated rate after the bad winter. Demand is up and for the most part tag numbers are down. Tough combo

That being said I highly recommend doing some escouting vs simply looking at public land percentages. Ill take less public but its legally accessible and is actually antelope habitat vs more public that's not accessible or is not in antelope country. The % doesn't tell the whole story.
Everyone can look at the stats and all the tag services make the stats easy to navigate so the days of finding a " hidden gem" that way are over. Try to find difficult or overlooked public access into antelope country in a lower point unit and you can have a good hunt for a lot fewer points.

 

[TaperPin]

Statistics are deceptive. You only need one good goat. We’ve hunted horrible areas with hardly anything alive for miles and came out with a whopper.

A friend drew for an area with very low numbers last fall and he was stressed, but I reminded him it only takes one good one. For days he didn’t see anything scouting or hunting, but then a good one came along and now he is so happy he drew that crappy area. Lol

 

[EdP]

I drew one of the "low public access" units in eastern Wy in the special draw with 2 points. Antelope numbers and quotas were way down from when I hunted the same unit in 2015, 2018, and 2019 when no points were required to draw in the regular random. Hunter numbers were way down also and the public land access was good enough for me to take a buck I am happy with the morning of day 3. I'm not picky. Any mature buck will do me fine and will eat as well as a monster. I had fun walking a lot of country that is very different from what I hunt in the east even though I didn't see an antelope for the first day and 1/2. I didn't see another hunter in that time either. All that walking paid dividends when what I learned the 2nd half of day 2 paid off the morning of day 3 with a buck down within a 10 minute walk of my truck.

It's just a matter of what makes you happy in a hunt. I would rather hunt this unit every 3rd year than accumulate enough points for one hunt in a "prime" unit, especially since antelope numbers and quotas are a crap shoot year to year.

 

[wytx]

Not all Type 2 tags are private land only.