unlimited or easy draw antelope areas

you best option is WYOMING, the place is infested with goats. i went a few yrs back and you could basically stalk antelope from daylight to dark, if one stalk went wrong--- you just sat down located another nice goat, and started a new stalk.. it was great!

killer how was hunting pressure?

Ox and Ben -
I hunted Wyoming again last year. I went during the archery season, and didn't see any other hunters except those in our party. I didn't connect, so I went back during the rifle season. I purposefully went near the end of the rifle season - to miss the masses of people that tend to show up opening weekend. I didn't see another hunter, except the buddy I was hunting with.
We saw lots of animals, and as killer said, if one stalk didn't work out, there was always another just over the hill!

Here's my reply to your mule deer question. I think it is applicable here also.

"maintguy47" wrote:Eastmans Bowhunter (and hunting journal) Magazine puts out an
issue every year that breaks down the western states,how to,where to, things like that. You might find what your looking for in there. Good luck.

The over-the-counter Eastmans magazine won't have the info maintguy47 mentioned. It's the MRS section or members research section available only to subscribers. They include it in the back of each issue. It's very well thought out. They time the reasearch so your reading about odds and drawing dates ect. a little before you have to act to put in for the tags. The section gives hunter success rates, a percentage of public vs private land, typical number of points required to draw the area, record book potential and so on. They do this research for all of the western states. I think Maintguy's suggestion is spot on. Subscribe to Eastmans and you'll get a ton of info that your after.

"The Ox" wrote:killer how was hunting pressure?

we never got hosed on a stalk, or spotted goat that someone else was already on. really pressure was very low. it's deffinatly a hunt i consider one everyone should do once or twice or more. what more can you ask--- lots of animals to hunt, throphy quality- if you wanted to look at a ton og goats.
i went to help my dad and his buddy, they were just looking for representable animals. they both killed a 13 1/2 and 14 1/2 bucks.

to tell you how good it was, my dads buddy, a life long family friend, goes deer hunting with my parents EVERY year, for over 20 yrs. he has NEVER killed a buck ](*,) misses, not seeing them, whatever it has been [ but he hasn't ever wounded a buck]------- his only kill he has ever had was a nice 14 1/2 goat on that hunt! it was awsome to see him be succsesfull!

and my dad was going to try and kill a big goat but he dropped the ball on a bedded, upper 15" , heavy horned goat at 200 yrds ](*,) a little frustrated- he shot the next repectable goat we stalked.

it was a fun hunt!

Orduckhunter and killerbee...what units in wyoming did you hunt? Were you hunting public land? Is this land open to nonresidents?

Thanks for the tips everybody!

I will have to sign up for Eastman's bowhunting journal

ben - I hunted area 7 - up in Weston County (near Newcastle)
good amounts of access - some on public land, some on private land with walk-in access

Wyoming has more opportunity for antelope hunters than any state in the west. There is plenty of public land to hunt and there is 2 types of private land to hunt through the Fish and games agreement with landowners, Hunter managment areas and Walk in hunting areas.

Also there are plenty of landowners that allow hunting for a fee or for free.

Repeat after me: "There are NO antelope in Wyoming. There are NO antelope in Wyoming. All of the antelope are in Colorado. All of the antelope are in Colorado."

"Snake River Marksman" wrote:Repeat after me: "There are NO antelope in Wyoming. There are NO antelope in Wyoming. All of the antelope are in Colorado. All of the antelope are in Colorado."

I can do that - but it'll cost you lol

there's still 400+ type 1 and doe/fawn tags left in area 7, Joe Sandrini is the Biolgist up there, he's in the New Castle phone directory and will be helpful getting ya headed in the right direction.

I believe there region B deer tags too.

Montana has the 900 series Archery antelope that covers a lot of area. Not a hard draw. These applications are due by June 1st. Season open mid August. You can also hunt archery with the general region/area antelope licenses with the archery permit. And like mentioned, even though WY has few lopes zzz hunting opportunities are plentiful. :-$

Thanks for the tips everybody!

The best lope hunting is in wyoming pretty much anywhere in the state but everyone seems to know that now so I might suggest montana's eastern side. Montana has a fair amount of lopes and a little better terrain to hide and stalk behind plus less out of state hunters and virtually no archary lope hunters. I lived there for a long time and flung a lot of sticks from my string at those lopes. Good luck on your search for a good hunt.

"Snake River Marksman" wrote:Repeat after me: "There are NO antelope in Wyoming. There are NO antelope in Wyoming. All of the antelope are in Colorado. All of the antelope are in Colorado."

No there all in florida now try there LOL!!!

I agree that Wyoming has the most opportunity for goats, but don't overlook the hunts in states such as Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and New Mexico. These states offer great hunts and should be put in for by someone who is serious about antelope hunting. If you're dedicated, California has been putting out some huge bucks lately but is hard for a non-resident to draw. Oregon has good goats in some areas as well, but again, you'd better be patient. So if you want a quick fix, head to Wyoming like everyone else, but I can attest that great antelpe hunting is available all across the west. Good luck!!! Antelope hunting is so much fun that you might want to start savin those points as you will want to hunt them again and again!----shooter