WY Deadline Is Coming

[Bigdawgridge]

For those of you wanting to try to draw antelope in WY, the deadline is the end of this month. Don’t delay!

Last year I unfortunately missed the WY elk point deadline for my youth son & it cost me taking him to WY this year for that back country elk hunt with my friend who lives in Cody. Missed the draw by 1 point. Thankfully I’ve got one more chance next year before he turns 18 & the price of the tag goes up significantly.

I did have a “legitimate”excuse though for missing......whitetail rut hunt with no internet service.

 

[Short Track]

I have no place to hunt in Wyoming. Are outfitters still available? or should I just apply for a public land tag? But I really need an outfitter..

 

[Bigdawgridge]

I’m sure you could find an outfitter still but that’s some important research to do on your own. Make sure you research well!

 

[HUNTCOAK]

I completely missed the deadline! Does WY do any OTC tags or am I just hosed this year?

 

[wapitibob]

leftover draw

 

[wytx]

I have no place to hunt in Wyoming. Are outfitters still available? or should I just apply for a public land tag? But I really need an outfitter..

Why an outfitter? Public land hunting is great and pronghorn are abundant.

 

[Marmots]

Why an outfitter? Public land hunting is great and pronghorn are abundant.

+1
My experience pronghorn hunting Wyoming has been a lot like my experience picking out a Christmas tree. You could often tag out five minutes into legal shooting light if so inclined.

If you want a trophy animal an outfitter could help with the scouting and field judging, but I've also heard stories of guides telling a client to shoot when they wanted the hunt to be over, then preying on the client's lack of knowledge to convince them the average goat they dropped was one for the record books. Pronghorn are easy to hunt and hard to judge.

 

[rfertig]

Why an outfitter? Public land hunting is great and pronghorn are abundant.

+2

No need for an outfitter for antelope in WY--they're not hard to find or pack out and don't require much in the way of backpacking.

 

[scrubs]

Looks like I missed the deadline. Is it possible to buy more than one point per year? I don`t know anything about applying for out of state hunts, this was going to be my first try.

 

[mahnster]

Looks like I missed the deadline. Is it possible to buy more than one point per year? I don`t know anything about applying for out of state hunts, this was going to be my first try.

You can only buy one point per year. July 1 - October 31 is when you can buy a preference point.

 

[bdan68]

Looks like I missed the deadline. Is it possible to buy more than one point per year? I don`t know anything about applying for out of state hunts, this was going to be my first try.

No, only 1 point per year. You can apply for a leftover tag in July, if you really want to hunt this year.

 

[scrubs]

Thanks mahnster & bdan68 for clarifying that. I`ll look into the left over tag draw.

 

[drtony]

Are the draw results in yet? When do they usually post?

 

[kda082]

Think the website says 20th.

 

[drtony]

Think the website says 20th.

13 more days! This'll be my first Pronghorn hunt!

 

[blutooth]

I have zero points and applied for a 0% chance unit as a first choice and a 100% draw chance unit as my second choice (the plan all along is get a point and hopefully hunt in my second choice). So just for grins I checked results today and I see that I now have 1 preference point. I am assuming that means they did the draw and I did not get my first choice - as expected. Anyone else apply with just a first choice? Curious to see if this is a valid backdoor (since I also applied for a 50% chance at a mule deer and I don't have any points there yet)...

 

[bdan68]

I don't think the draw has been done yet. I believe it's actually done the same day the results are posted. But, I could be wrong.

Also, you can't get a point during the application process anymore. You have to buy your points later.

 

[Cant hit em]

Here is an ez link to check

WGFD User Account

gfdrawresults.wyo.gov

 

[zacattack]

The wait is agonizing. I was so excited being my first year to apply for a west hunt, that I put my application in the very first day they were open. Seems like years ago