gutshootem
Active member
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2014
- Messages
- 162
Ok guys, I apologize ahead of time because this is going to be a little long winded. Trying to decide on a 2017 hunt with my brother and could use a little direction.
A little background first. Most of my experience is chasing whitetails in the east and midwest. I did buy a leftover WY antelope tag a few yrs back and was successful shooting a dink buck and a doe and had a blast. I went out solo, hunted public and camped out of my truck.
My brother wants to hunt the west so I'm trying to put something together for us in 2017. We're strictly looking into a rifle hunt at this point.
As of right now I haven't looked at any specific units or anything of detail. I just want to get some general thoughts to determine if I'm even going in the right direction.* Once I determine this, I'll start digging into everything-the fun stuff.
Basically, I've got two ideas.
First, an antelope and maybe cow elk hunt in WY. Of course this would only work if the draw odds and season dates line up for us. I'll have 4pts going into 2017 and he'll be buying his first this yr so he'd have one.
Second would be a Montana general mule deer or possibly deer/elk combo.
With either of these choices, neither of us are really comfortable tenting it out in the backcountry yet. I think we'll probably just set up camp and hunt out of there daily. We'll probably only have in the neighborhood of 5 days to hunt figuring in 2 days for driving each way and setting/packing up. Trophy potential isn't an issue. We'd both be happy with a decent mule deer or antelope. I guess I'd say numbers of game would be more important if anything.
Again, not looking for any real specifics here. Just wanting to know if I'm headed in the right direction with this?
A little background first. Most of my experience is chasing whitetails in the east and midwest. I did buy a leftover WY antelope tag a few yrs back and was successful shooting a dink buck and a doe and had a blast. I went out solo, hunted public and camped out of my truck.
My brother wants to hunt the west so I'm trying to put something together for us in 2017. We're strictly looking into a rifle hunt at this point.
As of right now I haven't looked at any specific units or anything of detail. I just want to get some general thoughts to determine if I'm even going in the right direction.* Once I determine this, I'll start digging into everything-the fun stuff.
Basically, I've got two ideas.
First, an antelope and maybe cow elk hunt in WY. Of course this would only work if the draw odds and season dates line up for us. I'll have 4pts going into 2017 and he'll be buying his first this yr so he'd have one.
Second would be a Montana general mule deer or possibly deer/elk combo.
With either of these choices, neither of us are really comfortable tenting it out in the backcountry yet. I think we'll probably just set up camp and hunt out of there daily. We'll probably only have in the neighborhood of 5 days to hunt figuring in 2 days for driving each way and setting/packing up. Trophy potential isn't an issue. We'd both be happy with a decent mule deer or antelope. I guess I'd say numbers of game would be more important if anything.
Again, not looking for any real specifics here. Just wanting to know if I'm headed in the right direction with this?