Future Wyoming hunt

[400bull]

I'm hopping to be able to do my first Non-resident hunt ever in Wyoming the fall of 2009 or 2010. Unless deer numbers go south between now and then I am strongly considering region G (Unit 135). I have started studying maps of the region to try identify possible areas to scout a couple of times over the next two summers. In studying the maps the Bull Mountain and Lake Mountain areas, look promising to me. Anyone willing to give a fellow hunter information on access, hunting pressure, and over all probability of having a fun successful hunt in this area? Not looking for any honey holes, I'll find them if they are there. I just need to know if it's an area worth looking into or should I keep searching.

Thanks for any help or advise you are willing to give.

400bull

 

[peez3006]

I've hunted G a couple of times. I don't have any info on the specific areas that you mentioned, but you need to do it. Tons of public land. Pressure can be high at the first of the season, then taper off fairly quickly. It's a great place to be buck hunting. Just make sure to be in your best shape. After a few days those mountains get real steep.

Don Pezer

 

[jbricejr]

I use to backpack bowhunt that area for elk, and have done one deer hunt there. Shot a cow elk on Bull Mtn with my recurve back in 92, and shot a doe there a few years back when I had a couple of llamas that made packing out no big deal. It's a better elk area then a deer area, but there are some deer there. I never saw any really nice bucks though. The bigger bucks in G tend to come from the really rough high country to the north, in the Salt River and Wyoming Ranges. It's pretty down there though.

 

[HunterScout]

If you haven't already been purchasing the preference points your probably going to be dissapointed with the results in the license drawing as G & H are the hardest regions for non-residents to draw.

The deer hunting isn't anywhere close to what it was 20-30 years ago in those areas. Fewer deer more elk.

Keep in mind the wintering ranges for these deer herds are being severly impacted by the energy boom and extensive drilling on their wintering grounds not to mention the increased poaching by rig hands, stress mortality, road kills etc.

These areas are falling way short of the reputations they earned back in the day. But thats the price you pay for oil & gas.