Trslabaugh
Member
Hey guys and gals,
I've been researching my tail off trying to decide to which region to go with to do an archery hunt in WY. This will be my first out of state archery hunt and first mule deer hunt. I have 3 Regions that I have been toying with, One being good access and two being poor access. Coming from Oklahoma, the "poor access" units still have more public land than we have! I've picked regions with fair success rates to know I should be able to get on a buck. One of the my questions is... how do you guys tell how busy an archery season is going to be? I ask because a couple public land areas I hunt in OK are ghost towns during archery. Granted, we don't have out of state hunters in the number that WY does. One of the regions, Eastman's lists it as poor for hunting pressure but I'm sure that's due to rifle hunting and being close to a populated area. So do I go off entire season data and say pressure with more public or less pressure with less public? Narrowing it down to "the one" unit to go to is driving me nuts. I do have 2 PP but from what Go Hunt says...I don't need any to draw these regions.
I'm not after a trophy, just a fair buck that represents the area I am hunting. In Oklahoma while hunting, I probably haven't laid eyes on anything bigger than a 130" whitetail so it shouldn't take a lot to get me fired up.
I've been researching my tail off trying to decide to which region to go with to do an archery hunt in WY. This will be my first out of state archery hunt and first mule deer hunt. I have 3 Regions that I have been toying with, One being good access and two being poor access. Coming from Oklahoma, the "poor access" units still have more public land than we have! I've picked regions with fair success rates to know I should be able to get on a buck. One of the my questions is... how do you guys tell how busy an archery season is going to be? I ask because a couple public land areas I hunt in OK are ghost towns during archery. Granted, we don't have out of state hunters in the number that WY does. One of the regions, Eastman's lists it as poor for hunting pressure but I'm sure that's due to rifle hunting and being close to a populated area. So do I go off entire season data and say pressure with more public or less pressure with less public? Narrowing it down to "the one" unit to go to is driving me nuts. I do have 2 PP but from what Go Hunt says...I don't need any to draw these regions.
I'm not after a trophy, just a fair buck that represents the area I am hunting. In Oklahoma while hunting, I probably haven't laid eyes on anything bigger than a 130" whitetail so it shouldn't take a lot to get me fired up.