I just got back yesterday from Wyoming , hunted antelope areas 9, 11, & 12, our group of 4 guys got 14 goats, 1 buck and 13 does. I wait until the leftover reduced price tags become available online about early August, there were only 9 either sex tags for area 9 and they were sold out in the first few minutes that they became available and there were 79 either sex available for area 12 and they were gone after 2 days. There were alot more hunters this year than in the past
and I dont know why since they now open deer and antelope on Oct. 1, where antelope opened a week earlier the past couple years.
Anyway the antelope numbers seem to be down a little from the past few years but still very plentiful, and the antelope rut is pretty well over by Oct. 1 because we were seeing groups of 15- 25 does along with 6 or more large bucks in the same group and when the season opened the week earlier the dominate bucks didn't allow any other bucks to graze along with a group of does. its a 1250 mile drive for me to go there from NW Ohio but its still the best bargin and greatest hunting I know of , many ranchers in the area allow goat hunting for free and there is plenty of walk on land available also, I have gone out there nearly every year for the past 11 years and have allways come home happy and with a frezzer full of good meat and plan to keep going as long as the population remains high and my health holds out.
Jedman
