Wyoming Region M

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rkurelowech

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LAST EDITED ON Jun-03-11 AT 09:51AM (MST)[p]A friend and I put in for a Wyoming region M deer tag, which covers Areas 35, 36, 39, 40, 42, 43 & 164, to get together and do some hunting for the first time in many years.

Just wondering if any one has experience with any of the areas and can give me some direction on where to start and areas to stay away from. Good place to setup a camp and where to hunt.

We will be hunting on foot only and roughing it in a wall tent. Any help will be appreciated.
 
Unit 35 is almost all private land and not really worth messing with. Unit 36 to the south of it is almost all BLM land, but IMO doesn't have enough deer to make it worth your time if you want to see a decent number of animals. However, it will probably not have many hunters because of that and there are hardly any decent roads for access in the unit, so you could hoof it and maybe find a good buck that hasn't been pressured. Unit 164 has a separate season (10/1-10/10) that is earlier than the other units, has very few deer on public land and even fewer hunters because the locals call it "the Badlands" for a reason! The biggest area of BLM land where you would not have to worry about trespass issues is pretty much everything you can access to the east off of the Bluebank Road, which is the boundary separating unit 164 from the others. It goes north/south and is hit from highway 16 on the north side of the units. If the weather is dry, it is all easily accessible country, but have a full gas tank as you are 30+ miles from the nearest town with gas in either direction as soon as you leave the highway. If it's wet, the roads out there in all the hunt units are very nasty as soon as you get off gravel or blackop, so have at least a 4x4 with chains just in case and even then it can get dicey. There is quite a bit of Hunter Management accessible private land in the southern part of that area that is mixed in with the BLM and state lands. Go on the F&G site and go into that public access section and you can click on Wahaskie County and print out passes for the time you would want to hunt any of it. The vehicle needs a printed piece of paperwork and each person needs to have an individual access pass, all of which can be done by yourslef right on the F&G website. The eastern half of Region M as you go east up higher into the mountains has some BLM lands, but you would need to make a good map to avoid trespass issues. I would suggest that you use extreme caution if you go over that way because the boundaries are not marked well and the few ranchers that own all the property over that way are not nice guys and the properties are patrolled regularly!
 
Thanks Topgun, just the type of info I was looking for. This really helps break down a huge hunting area into manageable pieces.
 
I hunted region m 4 years ago and hunted around the town of ten sleep. there is a lot of private in ten sleep and it got a lot of pressure so we hunted the foothills and shot a couple good bucks
 
>I hunted region m 4 years
>ago and hunted around the
>town of ten sleep. there
>is a lot of private
>in ten sleep and it
>got a lot of pressure
>so we hunted the foothills
>and shot a couple good
>bucks


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