Wyoming Antelope - Bad News

Hey but at least guys every year before it gets bad shoot 4 does a piece in a party of 5 or 6. Of course the numbers are horrible. Stacking up does year after year then get a bad winter or a drought...now throw in disease. What the hell does everyone expect.
 
We lose a few whitetails almost every year here in MO it seems, but we have had a couple years where it was terrible. Walk along a river or check ponds and find several. Seems like it is hard on older bucks here for some reason.
 
I'm sitting on 5 points, wanted to hunt this year, but will need to research. I drove from Cheyenne west to the Utah border several times this year (great antelope units) and the numbers shocked me. I have great eyes, and sightings that usually number in the 100s from the HWY resulted in just a handful.
 
Coveyleader said:
I'm sitting on 5 points, wanted to hunt this year, but will need to research. I drove from Cheyenne west to the Utah border several times this year (great antelope units) and the numbers shocked me. I have great eyes, and sightings that usually number in the 100s from the HWY resulted in just a handful.
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Very few bright spots in Wyoming for pronghorn, will be horrific if we get any kind of a bad winter. So far, its been pretty mild.

I've talked to a lot of pronghorn hunters and nobody is happy with numbers across a vast majority of the state.

The GF is in denial about the low numbers.
 
Me and my BIL hunted a unit in NE Wyoming. We hunted the same unit 5 years ago, shot nice bucks for the area in a couple days and saw hundreds of antelope every day. This year, after driving around the entire unit a couple times, we chose not to try to fill our tags. It was just awful. There were 100 doe tags issued in the unit as well. We didn’t see 50 different does in 4 days. Its a shame any doe tags were issued at all. There was almost no grass in the unit. Drought and grazing made the pastures look like they had been mowed.

We deer hunted a unit to the SW. There were better numbers of antelope there, and it’s managed more conservatively, but the locals we talked to said the unit was a shell of what it used to be too. It’s a real shame.
 
We can hope the winter stays mild and pray for lots of spring and summer rains... Maybe the GF will error on the side of caution and cut sum tags again or at least dont raise tags numbers..
 
Another trip East to West, and West to East on the I-80 corridor, and did see some pretty sizeable herds, but there was a lot of dead space without any animals.
 
This is terrible news. Hopefully quotas will be reduced enough to allow for a recovery in a few years. One of my favorite species and a great state to hunt them in.
 
Can anyone verify how deer winter kill northwest of Casper was this year? I unexpectedly drew a deer tag in the random. I haven't heard the Casper area mentioned specifically in any of the winter kill reports I've read.
 
Lil-Rokslider said:
Can anyone verify how deer winter kill northwest of Casper was this year? I unexpectedly drew a deer tag in the random. I haven't heard the Casper area mentioned specifically in any of the winter kill reports I've read.
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I haven't heard much from that area so it can't be too bad. Congrats on the tag.
 
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