Antelope hunts are the easiest diy hunt on the planet here in wyoming they out number people 10,000 to 1. Its impossible to drive, hike, boat, or motorcycle anywhere without seeing dozens of them.
Find open sage that has an incline. A half hour before sunrise start at the top and walk down towards the wooded creek bottom slowly. the antelope come up from the creek bottoms at sunrise. They graze a bit in the open before they go close to the tops of ridges and bed for the day. They like to have a view. If you dont manage to shoot one on their way up from the creeks, sit at the bottom of the inclines with 15x56 and glass the shawdows 20% down from the top of the ridge.
Once you shoot one its 20 minutes to gutless quarter. If your lucky you will get a big one and get upwards of 60 lbs of meat. The one i shot lengthwise with 300 win mag last year at 50 yards came over a ridge while i was setting up for a 200 yard shot on a big buck in a herd. It started blowing and i shot it before it spooked off the herd. Ended up being a runt. Im embarassed to say scraping every bit of meat off the bones only netted 20 lbs.
If you can manage shooting a deer, quartering it, and packing it out, an antelope hunt without a guide will be a breeze.
Only problem with antelope hunting in wyoming is tag numbers are super low. Im a resident and ive only drawn 3 in the last 5 years. Usually put in for the roughest, toughest, most un navigable areas. I usually have rocky mountain big horn sheep waking past me where i antelope hunt. Be prepared to shoot in open wind, though its rare to need to shoot more than 200 yards on any game animal in wyoming.
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