OK, the way it stands is 2010 is mostly history. I killed one elk with a bow and one with a rifle and one antelope with a pistol and one with a rifle. Average distance was 45+450+501+1080 = 2,074/4 = 518 yds.
Now it’s time to get back to the real nitty gritty and start sending in the applications for the 2011 hunts. So, you can look around and see if you are lord and master of all you survey or whether you are a beaten down belly crawling worm who trembles in fear when SWMBO speaks.
First up is Wyoming. Their application period for antelope (and all other animals) hunting is January 1 – March 15. Probably will be some doe antelope licenses “leftover” for the indecisive willynillys who never know what they are doing tomorrow much less 9 months from now.
So if you wish to go antelope hunting, which is about the easiest hunting there is, then now is the time to decide and send in your application.
I have helped lots and lots of people by email and online to go antelope hunting successfully and am willing to help anyone who is serious about it. Here are two articles I have written on how to be successful in drawing a tag and how to be successful in killing an antelope you will be proud to hang on your wall.
http://www.longrangehunting.com/foru...99/index2.html
http://www.longrangehunting.com/foru...00/index6.html
Here is another article that basically says the same thing.
http://www.longrangehunting.com/arti...antelope-1.php
Here is the Wyoming Game and Fish website
http://gf.state.wy.us/
The documents you want to download are on that page.
Ii always use the Wyoming Atlas and Gazetteer for determining public land availability but for you guys who got new phones and handhelds there are some great e-maps showing landuse that are available for them and well as the device will gps you right in.
A buck tag will cost you $286 and a doe tag will cost $48 and you can buy two of them up front and more later. So for $382 you can shoot 3 antelope. There is a conservation stamp required but it is just pocket change. There are a lot of ways to save money and a lot of ways to waste money antelope hunting. The two most common ways of wasting money is paying for a guide and a butcher. Other than licenses, your major costs will be gas/diesel and lodging.
As I have said already, each year I get emails and PMs from guys who want to hunt antelope for the first time and I help them out and get some satisfaction from it. You can look at this thread and see two very nice trophies. I seldom hunt for trophies for myself and just go for distance, but if that is the name of the game then OK, I can do that.
http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...ad.php?t=21790
Utah deer and elk hunts have to be applied for between February 1 and March 1 and once again I can help you with those tasks and give you a basic idea of what to do and what to apply for. My own schedule of hunting is dependent upon what permits I draw and what consulting projects require my attention. Last year I came home for two weeks in the middle of hunting because I got finished bowhunting early and we had some consulting work to be done. It’s great to be retired, that’s for sure.
For all you guys who still have to work and support families – all joking aside- that is an important responsibility and one I always put first. Many years, while raising a family, I never killed anything nor had any new guns. My bow was 32 years old when I finally retired and got a new one. But for all of you retired guys who are just sitting around wearing out your keyboard complaining about the sad state of affairs you should get out and do something before you fall over dead from atrophy and apolexy.
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