Henerys Buffalo Cow hunt HELP

deaddog406 · May 25, 2017

So my wife drew a cow buffalo hunt on the Henerys and I would appreciate any starting points to look....her hunt doesn't start until December 16 but would like to start researching some areas/roads ect. Thank you in advance for any help as I know this can be a tough hunt.

deerkiller · May 26, 2017

LAST EDITED ON May-26-17 AT 06:48PM (MST)[p]>So my wife drew a cow
>buffalo hunt on the Henerys
>and I would appreciate any
>starting points to look....her hunt
>doesn't start until December 16
>but would like to start
>researching some areas/roads ect. Thank
>you in advance for any
>help as I know this
>can be a tough hunt.
>

My brother drew the same hunt in 2012. Everyone I talked to said it was going to be really hard to find success. We didn't go down and scout at all. We pulled our house trailer down the night before the hunt and went into this totally blind. We camped off of notam (sp?) road and got up early and headed up towards airplane springs. We drove all over that mountain just learning the different areas people
Told us the buffalo would be. Spent the whole
Morning just getting familiar with the roads and terrain. Cut a set of fresh tracks in the snow on our way back from the morning hunt, around be McMillan camp ground and decided to go back there and glass that afternoon. 10 minutes after we got to the glassing point, I spotted them in the chained off area feeding just off the main road. Trucks were literally racing right past them within 100 yards and never even stopped to look at them. Drove up there, walked 10 yards off the road and shot one. I know we got pretty lucky with how it all went down, but I think the fact that we hadn't gone Down and found them in a certain area before the hunt started and we "knew" where they were helped us a lot. I know people tend to get set on one area when people "know" the animals are in there, when they very well could have moved out to somewhere new due to pressure, snow, or reasons unknown. I'd go down prepared to stay the whole hunt (if possible), pay attention to the sign you are seeing. They seemed to like traveling on the roads at night. Get a good glassing point and just look. Don't get too tied up in one area. The animals are gonna be where you find them. It was a fun hunt, and to be honest, I'm sad it ended as fast as it did

pushin_30 · May 27, 2017

Congrats! Your in for a fun/great hunt! The hunt can be just liked to scenario described above or it can be a tough one. Depends on the year. Plan on it being cold! Depending on the snow depths access to the unit is plenty. Between friends and family we had the same tag 3 years in a row. First year we harvested a giant cow just north of the Horn. Second year we harvested a cow down south of airplane springs, this year finding the herds was not easy. Took us 4 days of covering the unit before we lucked into a herd moving across the road just a few hours before we cut their tracks. Tracked them in the snow for about 2 miles before we reached to herd and was able to get one down. 3rd year was the exact location and scenario as described above. Shot one 100 yards off the road in a chaining. Good luck and have a blast!!