Hey everyone, I am looking for information on Region A in Wyoming for a mule deer hunt I am tentatively planning for 2018.
This year my dad decided to go deer hunting for the first time in 3 or 4 years with me, at 63 years old and having worked in the West Virginia Coal mines all his life, he has had surgery on his back, and neck so far and has arthritis in his back, neck, shoulders, wrists and now knees. He used to be able to climb the mountains with the best of em. But now not so much.
I didnt realize how much I missed hunting with him, sure i didnt hunt as hard as I normally do this year (no 2 mile hikes into the national forest up here for me this year) because I went with him in places he could go. But I enjoyed it alot, and it made me think often of the old days when I was growing up and hunting with him etc.
So one night I was scrolling through facebook and a picture of a mule deer went by, he asked "who killed that" and I was like "oh some guy out west, I dont know, it's just in one of those mule deer groups i am in on facebook" my dad then says "boy I'd like to kill one of them mules one day"
And so now here I am a few weeks later, I have scoured the internet, e-mailed Robby Denning and aggravated him trying to pry info out of him...lol and I "think" I have settled on wyoming region A to take the old man on a mule deer "western" hunt.
I know it doesn't hold "trophy" potential, and isn't as epic as an idaho or colorado high country hunt etc etc. but non residents can draw 100% and of course my dad has no preference points for wyoming. Plus the Black Hills he may be able to handle much better than Idaho backcountry etc. and of course I can get my feet wet out there, and get some experience under my belt before I use my preference point on a really good unit a few years down the road.
So my question to my fellow roksliders is, can you provide me with any information that would help our hunt be successful? I knwo the whitetail outnumber the mule deer there, from what i have read in my research so far, so we will have our work cut out for us finding mule deer "pockets"
Thanks in advance, and pm me if needed with the info
This year my dad decided to go deer hunting for the first time in 3 or 4 years with me, at 63 years old and having worked in the West Virginia Coal mines all his life, he has had surgery on his back, and neck so far and has arthritis in his back, neck, shoulders, wrists and now knees. He used to be able to climb the mountains with the best of em. But now not so much.
I didnt realize how much I missed hunting with him, sure i didnt hunt as hard as I normally do this year (no 2 mile hikes into the national forest up here for me this year) because I went with him in places he could go. But I enjoyed it alot, and it made me think often of the old days when I was growing up and hunting with him etc.
So one night I was scrolling through facebook and a picture of a mule deer went by, he asked "who killed that" and I was like "oh some guy out west, I dont know, it's just in one of those mule deer groups i am in on facebook" my dad then says "boy I'd like to kill one of them mules one day"
And so now here I am a few weeks later, I have scoured the internet, e-mailed Robby Denning and aggravated him trying to pry info out of him...lol and I "think" I have settled on wyoming region A to take the old man on a mule deer "western" hunt.
I know it doesn't hold "trophy" potential, and isn't as epic as an idaho or colorado high country hunt etc etc. but non residents can draw 100% and of course my dad has no preference points for wyoming. Plus the Black Hills he may be able to handle much better than Idaho backcountry etc. and of course I can get my feet wet out there, and get some experience under my belt before I use my preference point on a really good unit a few years down the road.
So my question to my fellow roksliders is, can you provide me with any information that would help our hunt be successful? I knwo the whitetail outnumber the mule deer there, from what i have read in my research so far, so we will have our work cut out for us finding mule deer "pockets"
Thanks in advance, and pm me if needed with the info