Wyoming Unit 7 Elk scouting trip

Jesslife · Jul 9, 2015

Drew a Elk tag in Unit 7 WY and I have never been their before, Next week I will be heading out their for 4 days to try to learn the area a little bit. Just thought I would post to see if anyone had any suggestions on some places to check out. And if any one has contact info to some landowners that will let you hunt their property for a reasonable price. Any thing would be greatly appreciated. I will be mostly doing the archery hunt out their so hopefully I can fill my tag with my bow. Thanks Guys!

30Hart · Jul 10, 2015

Call Fish and Game and get a landowner list. Also call the nearest chamber of commerce and do the same. There are some but you have to call around to find them...good luck.

gil_wy · Jul 11, 2015

Two big chunks of public are the Black Mountain area (ashenfeldter) and the Cow Creek range... I know the Cow Creeks just get hammered all season long but if you put some miles on, you can still have a good hunt in the Black Mountain area. Also, Deer Creek toward the North end of the unit has a large roadless area and is one of the primary calving areas in the unit...

This will be a good start... Just have a lot of options. There will be plenty of competition.

As far as landowners, I have no idea on that.

elkcrzy1 · Jul 13, 2015

Look for places that are out of the way and not obvious because those places like Cow Creek that have elk right now wont hold elk after opening day, or very few. It gets hammered bad ! Gil is right, have plenty of options.

Jesslife · Jul 14, 2015

My father in-law hunted this unit back in 2013 and he keep trying to tell me to go to cow creek, thats where he hunted, but this tells me it is easy to access. And probably has high hunting pressure. So I will check it out but probably not hunt it, trying to find areas that are hard to get to with normal public access. I have the onxmaps for this area so hopefully will find a good area. Thanks for your guy's input!

huntin50 · Jul 14, 2015

It has high hunting pressure about everywhere which is public.

Jesslife · Jul 20, 2015

>Two big chunks of public are
>the Black Mountain area (ashenfeldter)
>and the Cow Creek range...
>I know the Cow Creeks
>just get hammered all season
>long but if you put
>some miles on, you can
>still have a good hunt
>in the Black Mountain area.
> Also, Deer Creek toward
>the North end of the
>unit has a large roadless
>area and is one of
>the primary calving areas in
>the unit...
>
>This will be a good start...
>Just have a lot of
>options. There will
>be plenty of competition.
>
>As far as landowners, I have
>no idea on that.

Do you know if Cow creek or Larmine Peak has a lot of Archery hunters?

gil_wy · Jul 20, 2015

>>Two big chunks of public are
>>the Black Mountain area (ashenfeldter)
>>and the Cow Creek range...
>>I know the Cow Creeks
>>just get hammered all season
>>long but if you put
>>some miles on, you can
>>still have a good hunt
>>in the Black Mountain area.
>> Also, Deer Creek toward
>>the North end of the
>>unit has a large roadless
>>area and is one of
>>the primary calving areas in
>>the unit...
>>
>>This will be a good start...
>>Just have a lot of
>>options. There will
>>be plenty of competition.
>>
>>As far as landowners, I have
>>no idea on that.
>
>Do you know if Cow creek
>or Larmine Peak has a
>lot of Archery hunters?

It all does... But probably less on Laramie Peak because of the harder access...

Wyobowhunt · Jul 21, 2015

Went up last weekend and black mountain area had 3 horse trailers at the bottom. I bet they are bow hunters in scouting.

Jesslife · Jul 23, 2015

I was up there last weekend for 3 days and got a lot of scouting in, and thought I found some good areas, but on the last night we turn up a side road from the main and found 2 different herds of cows and calf's. They were like 100-125 in each herd. Got me pretty excited to find that much elk up their but was kind of weird to because I have never seen them in that big of herd this so early in the season. But then as we were glassing at them a rancher came out of no where and said we were on a private road, then he explain to me that the only roads I can access where the forest roads. Which was not much. His road had no sign on it so pretty much most of the roads we found elk on was private roads. Got me pretty much bummed out but also made me more committed of looking harder for a nice bull. I knew when I put in for this area that there where a lot of private but I thought I could access most of the roads that got you to alot of public. All well we will see what I can pull off up their. Thanks guys for all your input!

gil_wy · Jul 24, 2015

Get the FS road use map... Remember just because it is a Forest Service road with a number doesn't mean it is a public road... In fact, in area 7, most FS roads are private... Landowner and FS personnel only...