I have a question about the roads in Wyoming region G. We should have more than enough points to draw and are planning on hitting trailheads away from main roads that horse trailers can not drive to. How are the roads leading to the harder to reach trail heads? Will a standard 4x4 truck be ok or should a guy plan on bringing a quad or side by side to drive to the trail head? Thanks
WY Region G roads
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hornkiller
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I would say 90% of the trail heads horse trailers can make it and the other 10% horse trailers make it to within riding distance of the trail head.
BrowningRage
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I would agree with the above post... It seems like almost any trailhead is accessible to horse trailers. At least in the areas that I've been (not hunting).
USGS maps and Google Earth are your best friends. Even if there are horses in an area, that doesn't mean they can hunt it all. And by just being in a spot, you might make them go to the next canyon over...
"Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion!" 2 Ne. 28: 24
USGS maps and Google Earth are your best friends. Even if there are horses in an area, that doesn't mean they can hunt it all. And by just being in a spot, you might make them go to the next canyon over...
"Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion!" 2 Ne. 28: 24
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I agree with both of the above posts. There really aren't any trailheads that you can't access with a horse trailer. Sure, there may be a spur road that goes a mile or two that I wouldn't take a trailer down, but the horse guys don't hesitate to ride their horses that last mile.
There really aren't many (if any) "get away from everybody" places in the Greys. While there are a few good bucks, it is over hyped for the most part, and very few first timers in the greys score on huge bucks. In fact, most people that hunt it regularly don't kill huge bucks. They just aren't behind every tree.
There are decent numbers of solid, nice bucks, and most people shoot the first one they see. It can be a fun hunt if you don't have unrealistic expectations.
In my experience, thinking you can "out work" or "out hike" everyone else in the greys is an unrealistic expectation.
Learn a particular drainage well, the deer's patterns, etc, and you will increase your odds more that just looking for some mythical unknown big buck hideout.
Bill
There really aren't many (if any) "get away from everybody" places in the Greys. While there are a few good bucks, it is over hyped for the most part, and very few first timers in the greys score on huge bucks. In fact, most people that hunt it regularly don't kill huge bucks. They just aren't behind every tree.
There are decent numbers of solid, nice bucks, and most people shoot the first one they see. It can be a fun hunt if you don't have unrealistic expectations.
In my experience, thinking you can "out work" or "out hike" everyone else in the greys is an unrealistic expectation.
Learn a particular drainage well, the deer's patterns, etc, and you will increase your odds more that just looking for some mythical unknown big buck hideout.
Bill
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or out hike the horses. Good luck if your hunting opening week and going in blind for the first time.
>Your not gonna get away from
>the horses in G!
Ditto that! I'd like to meet the guy that can get away from horses on foot in G based on the horseback hunt we had there last year. IMHO skipping the first week is a better idea to miss a bunch of people in that we started the 20th and only saw two other guys the second week and they were on horses our last day after I had filled my tag. I don't know whether the bad weather the first 4 or 5 days last year cleared out a lot of people or what, but we saw very few people in town or even at the various trail heads we went by each day.
>the horses in G!
Ditto that! I'd like to meet the guy that can get away from horses on foot in G based on the horseback hunt we had there last year. IMHO skipping the first week is a better idea to miss a bunch of people in that we started the 20th and only saw two other guys the second week and they were on horses our last day after I had filled my tag. I don't know whether the bad weather the first 4 or 5 days last year cleared out a lot of people or what, but we saw very few people in town or even at the various trail heads we went by each day.
Thanks for the information. We plan to come the second week of the season and are going to focus on just enjoying the hunt. We are not expecting monsters. I am not expecting to get away from horses, just trying to focus on areas with a little less hunter traffic and was wondering about the road conditions.
Roads in G, for the most part, are great. New comers to G would be well advised to spend less time trying to out hike others and spend more time out hunting others. Many hunters in G seem to be out for a marathon hike or ride and spend far too little time hunting. The horseback crowd seems to be the worst at this. I see tons of hunters on horse but I rarely ever see the horse tied up and those hunters glassing. They seem to ride around until they bump into a deer. This is productive but the dude without horse will never match them. The ones that consistently do the best out hunt the others. They spend more time in the field, more time behind glass, more time hunting out of the way side canyons and less time hiking. If you do this, you will have an enjoyable and productive hunt. Good luck and have fun.
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Most of the roads are pretty good.
Everyone is obsessed with getting remote in unit G. There is a bunch of remote area with big deer. I have also seen lots of big deer from my truck on the paved (asphalt) roads.
Draw results are up now. Hope you scored you tag.
Everyone is obsessed with getting remote in unit G. There is a bunch of remote area with big deer. I have also seen lots of big deer from my truck on the paved (asphalt) roads.
Draw results are up now. Hope you scored you tag.
