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