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