Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game My 2 day Wyoming antelope hunt

Well, after missing my annual trip to Wyoming last year due to work obligations I decided I'd go this year come hell or high water:) Missing a season due to work is just wrong IMHO! Anyway, work was still causing issues but I had a small window last week where things looked good and I could sneak off to Kaycee for a quick hunt. I double checked the weather forecast for Wyoming which also was great so Thursday morning off I went! Always look forward to seeing this after a long drive!


My plan was to arrive in Kaycee, check in at the KC RV where I stay Friday mid-morning, check in with the rancher who's place I hunt on and try and get in a couple hours of hunting later that afternoon. Since I had a buck tag and 2 doe tags to fill and only that afternoon, Saturday and part of Sunday to hunt I figured I better get after it:)

So Saturday was probably the most frustrating day of antelope hunting I have ever had. The season in the unit I hunt had been open for 2+ weeks so the antelope where way skittish- usually on past hunts the does would at least let you get pretty close. Not this year they would run as soon as they saw the rig if you got within a mile of them, then run 2 more miles and then maybe stop to look back! But after a most frustrating day where I think I made a lot of mistakes due to always feeling rushed I did manage to fill both doe tags but never did get close to a buck. I was solo and didn't have my camera so not field shots that day. But according to my gps I walked 16 miles that day, which was plenty for this old guy:)

Sunday morning started off the same as Saturday, several more missed stocks on bucks where I usually made one mistake or another and never could get a good position to take a shoot. I was basically ready to call it a day and was walking back to the rig when I figured what the heck try one more spot to see if I could find a buck. Well, I did find one and actually managed to make everything work. I did 9 miles that morning so was more than happy to take this little guy:) He isn't the biggest buck I saw, heck I saw several bigger and a bunch at least as big but I'm sure happy to have gotten this one at the last minute. And like several others have mentioned I never did see any really big bucks this year, saw two really nice ones but no monsters. So anyway here is the hero shot, rifle used was my Kampfeld .243 which sure works well for antelopes!




I usually never remember to take any scenery pictures but here are a couple. The cactus in this first picture covers about everything and is lots of fun to crawl through-grin.
But Wyoming is a wonderful place and great people!!