Flyjunky
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I'm looking for some advice from the Rokslide braintrust on hunting Wyoming over the next few years.
A little backstory...I grew up in Iowa before moving out to Oregon when I was 13. During the 70's and early 80's my dad and his friends would drive out to Wyoming every year to hunt and he just loved it. He hasn't been back there to hunt since then and a few years ago, as age is creeping up, he mentioned that he wants to go back and hunt. So we started buying points and right now we have 3 deer, 3 antelope, and 2 elk points, we already bought points for this year. We are planning to do our first hunt next year.
We are looking to do one hunt each year but I'm struggling on what order to do them in when you take into account the points needed for a "decent" hunt for each species. I'm not real concerned about shooting anything of particular size but I know he would like to get a decent antelope and any bull would be a success in his eyes. More than anything he wants to have a great hunt, some chances at animals, and for us to experience Wyoming since I was way to young to go with him back in the day.
Right now I'm leaning deer, antelope, and then elk? Is it really going to make a difference on the quality of the unit/general area by waiting one year to gain an extra point for a certain species? Here in Oregon, for the most part, a 1 point difference, makes very little difference in getting a better unit.
With all that being said, what order would you go with the amount of points we have? If it makes any difference in your thoughts my dad will be in his 70's so the super steep and deep stuff is mostly out of the cards for deer and elk. He really likes the breaks/open type country.
Thanks in advance for the advice!
A little backstory...I grew up in Iowa before moving out to Oregon when I was 13. During the 70's and early 80's my dad and his friends would drive out to Wyoming every year to hunt and he just loved it. He hasn't been back there to hunt since then and a few years ago, as age is creeping up, he mentioned that he wants to go back and hunt. So we started buying points and right now we have 3 deer, 3 antelope, and 2 elk points, we already bought points for this year. We are planning to do our first hunt next year.
We are looking to do one hunt each year but I'm struggling on what order to do them in when you take into account the points needed for a "decent" hunt for each species. I'm not real concerned about shooting anything of particular size but I know he would like to get a decent antelope and any bull would be a success in his eyes. More than anything he wants to have a great hunt, some chances at animals, and for us to experience Wyoming since I was way to young to go with him back in the day.
Right now I'm leaning deer, antelope, and then elk? Is it really going to make a difference on the quality of the unit/general area by waiting one year to gain an extra point for a certain species? Here in Oregon, for the most part, a 1 point difference, makes very little difference in getting a better unit.
With all that being said, what order would you go with the amount of points we have? If it makes any difference in your thoughts my dad will be in his 70's so the super steep and deep stuff is mostly out of the cards for deer and elk. He really likes the breaks/open type country.
Thanks in advance for the advice!