WY archery help

[sivart]

Gonna burn my 10 points this year. I’m looking at the Shirley mnts unit and the unit north of that. Will only be able to hunt the 3rd week in Aug. please pm me if you have suggestions. Thanks.

 

[sivart]

I should also mention I prefer spot and stalk

 

[Muledeerfanatic]

You will see antelope and stalk many

 

[wytx]

Lots of prairie rattlers too.

 

[huntabsarokee]

Tell me more about these snakes. Thinking about taking my 16 year old daughter to Wyoming on an antelope archery hunt due to the timing with school summer vacation. Only been to the mountainous elk units in September so never ran into a rattler yet. We have them in PA but I am not usually stalking through the brush at home. Do folks worry enough about them to wear snake boots? Would probably try and minimize tent camping for this trip.

 

[wapitibob]

I've been all over the Shirleys and have never seen a snake.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

Tell me more about these snakes. Thinking about taking my 16 year old daughter to Wyoming on an antelope archery hunt due to the timing with school summer vacation. Only been to the mountainous elk units in September so never ran into a rattler yet. We have them in PA but I am not usually stalking through the brush at home. Do folks worry enough about them to wear snake boots? Would probably try and minimize tent camping for this trip.

We've never seen one on a bunch of September trips, we wait for the crowds to die down though so if it matters it's a littler later in the season. We deal with snakes weekly back home so not a concern on our radar, but admittedly let our guard down when up there in WY. I wouldn't think snake boots are required, we have multiple pairs per person for back home but I wouldn't consider bringing them up there. You can see where you're walking, just watch your step and look at the ground when you're crawling on your belly, you're gonna be doing so anyway since there's cactus everywhere.

 

[wytx]

We take the time to leave early for the machine Gun shoot in June so we can get rattlers off the highway as we go through Shirley Basin and up into the other area.
There are a ton of snakes in Shirley Basin. I know where a big den is.
Not going to find them up in the mountains.

Prairie rattlers are not aggressive so to speak and before we started just relocating them we took a few, longest is 58 inches and that is big for these guys. Most seem to be about 3 ft ish or so long.

 

[bdan68]

I've seen three rattlesnakes in Wyoming, two were in September and the other was in October, if I remember correctly. They never seemed too aggressive though, even though a couple times we nearly stepped on them.