Hunting near Lander, WY

Beretta_7

Can't help you with the area, hopefully someone can.

Wanted to say WELCOME though.

For Mule Deer hunting I doupt if there's a better place to be located than Lander. You have great hunting in every direction. Do you know where beaver rim divide is? Look on your map. Drive East toward Sweetwater Station. At the top of the hill is the devide that separates the Bighorn drainage from the Platte. Take the Atlantic City Hudson trail South or North. Most of the rough country is West and North of Beaver Rim.
Don't get caught down in the rough country if it snows, your truck will be there until Spring.
Good Luck

mnmt

Just got back from there - saw one great big 4 pt. yesterday morning - real deep forks and perfectly symmetrical, not much on mass and decent width at around 26 ill say to be safe. (only width view i got was looking away so he looked much bigger than he was im sure). We pulled off one a the many dirt roads up there to take a break and let the dogs run around for a while.. we were there for a good 5 minutes at least before I noticed him. We were after antelope but this whole trip all I wanted was to see a big muley, so after i fixed myself a pb&j a started glassin the bottoms of the hilly country and spotted this bad boy about 250 yds. from us just slowly sneakin through the sage brush and he mosied his way underneath a lone pine tree and bed there for the day. I don't see a lot of mature deer so it was pretty cool for me.

I hunt pronghorn out there every year but this trip was my first time exploring the whole area we hunt and getting to know it really well and also my first time ever going to this part of the area. If I had a map I could point you a lot closer (so lemme know if you have some online map i can look up or something) but its just a couple miles east of Atlantic City I think? Or somewhere around there (sorry). Here's a pic of the backround, it shows a big main dirt road i dunno if that helps at all. Where I spotted that buck is directly to my right. - After forever of glassin the buck I FINALLY remembered to shoot a pic, but by this time he was way off and nearly to his bed for the day - but if you are able to look around this area at all then heres where I saw him (not that this pic shows the area at all, haha. sorry)
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Anyways, there are some great deer around this country - never had the opportunity to hunt it but have been there later in the year before and had the chance to talk with some hunters and have seen some great bucks pulled outa those sage brush hilly country, just check each n every little coolie out there.. im sure theres some even better hunting up in the piny mountains and stuff though, i dunno. mule deer hunting is my favorite but I know hardly nothin about it, haha.. good luck

Thanks for the welcome to the site, seems to be right up my alley. Everyone seems to enjoy buck hunting just as much as I do.

I have scouted the beaver rim area quite a bit and have seen lots of deer. I was told that the area gets a lot of pressure on the opener, but I guess that what you have to work with some times. I have seen even more bucks on the foothills of the Winds but I know elk hunters have likely moved into those areas. Anyhow I really appreciate the help. Good luck baggin a biggin'

Beretta7, Welcome to MuleyMadness. :) I hope you find a good spot by Lander.

hound hunter, Nice photos and story, Thanks.

It does seem like a lot of deer hunters use the Beaver Rim country. I would say that most don't leave or go very far from their pickups. If you can walk a mile or so you won't see many hunters. Problem is you will
have to pack out your buck. So make it worthwhile. thumb