Antelope Hunting in the Medicine Bow Region of Wyoming

I've been hunting in this region for approximately fivedeer both out on the prairie, and in the mountains.
years. In fact I've never hunted anywhere else. IThere are also elk in the wooded areas around here.
grew up as a city kid in the Pacific Northwest, andThere are even moose up there. Smaller ones, but
even though I had friends in high school who wouldthey are there.In my opinion, antelope is the easiest
disappear to hunt, I never took the opportunity tospecies to hunt out here on the high plains of the
do so myself. Learning as an (middle aged) adult isRocky Mountains. They tend to occupy any parcel of
quite a bit harder.The urge to hunt began when weopen land on which they can find ample grass and
lived in eastern Montana. The whitetail deer were allsage. As the temperature drops, they do group
over the wheat fields (I managed to take one outtogether into larger herds. But in the Summer and Fall
with our mini-van, but I don't think that counts).you will find them in smaller groups. These smaller
There were also a large amount of ring-neckedgroups are what you come across during the hunting
pheasants. I quite often thought that if one was toseason, which is in the latter half of September
carry a shotgun in their car, that they could get youthrough the first half of October.Antelope are skittish
year's worth of pheasant during one 40 minute tripcreatures, and they will run as soon as they see you.
to town. (I wouldn't advise actually doing that!) ThenHowever, they usually don't run far. Some even say
we moved to Wyoming, and we saw the largethat if you take your shot at an antelope and miss,
amount of antelope that lived here. Our new homeall you have to do is wait. They will eventually come
also happened to be within easy driving distance ofaround in a circle.
the Medicine Bow National Forest. There are mule