Wife and kids Wyoming antelope????

I'm currently researching trying to find a antelope hunt to put my wife and 2 daughters in for in 2020. Going into the draw they will be sharing 8 points (wife and oldest daughter each have 4). Youngest daughter turns 12 next year and the oldest will be 17 so this is our only shot with the reduced youth rate. The wife has hunted some and harvested a deer, oldest has hunted a little but hasn't harvested, hunting isn't really her deal, youngest is the most ambitious started last year and harvested a doe antelope in Idaho. With that being said I am looking for a hunt they can all draw on the West side of the state with 2.66 points and have a chance at 12-13?+ bucks in around 3 days of hunting and get to see some neat landmarks or scenery and make it a vacation and not just a hunt. Thermopolis and Dubois area seem the most scenic. From my research most of the units contain large amounts of private land or are private land type hunts. With that said I'm hoping for some hands on info from people that have been in these units or that know the areas well. These are the units they can draw and what I have found in my research. My hope is to find a unit they can have a chance to hunt antelope when we see them and not have them all be off limits cause we can't access the land they are on.
56- has poor access
76-2 have to hunt close to the bighorn river or southern part of the unit
77-2 have to hunt on or within 1/2 mile of private
79 only 28% draw odds in 2018
82 they will be right on the edge having enough points
84 fair amount of public but are the bulk of the antelope in the lower private stuff?
97/117 appears to have a large reservation

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>97/117 appears to have a large
>reservation


I would avoid this unit at all costs. I hunted it a few years ago on a left over tag. I now understand why there are left over tags there every year. The white guys within the unit that own property are very nice and receptive to hunters, however, most of the goats that are in the unit are in the reservation and don't even think about trying to ask an Indian go hunt anywhere in that unit. They are a bunch of racist assholes and will call you every name in the book. I've never had a gun pulled on me for simply knocking on a door, but it happened twice in the same weekend when I was trying to track down land owners. I was able to track down a guy who owned some alfalfa fields that were over run with goats and ended up filling all tags. But if it wasn?t for that, I doubt we would have killed anything. This unit is one of those times where just staying home is better than dealing with that mess

Thanks for the feedback. I was disappointed when I seen the reservation. I didn't even know you could hunt it there with permission. I live next to one in Idaho and there is no big game hunting on it for non tribe members but they do allow special waterfowl and upland game permits and fishing.

>Thanks for the feedback. I was
>disappointed when I seen the
>reservation. I didn't even know
>you could hunt it there
>with permission. I live next
>to one in Idaho and
>there is no big game
>hunting on it for non
>tribe members but they do
>allow special waterfowl and upland
>game permits and fishing.


You might not even be able to hunt there if you aren't a reservation member, I never got far enough in any conversations with anyone who lived there to find out!

>
>>97/117 appears to have a large
>>reservation
>
>
>I would avoid this unit at
>all costs. I hunted it
>a few years ago on
>a left over tag. I
>now understand why there are
>left over tags there every
>year. The white guys within
>the unit that own property
>are very nice and receptive
>to hunters, however, most of
>the goats that are in
>the unit are in the
>reservation and don't even think
>about trying to ask an
>Indian go hunt anywhere in
>that unit. They are a
>bunch of racist assholes and
>will call you every name
>in the book. I've never
>had a gun pulled on
>me for simply knocking on
>a door, but it happened
>twice in the same weekend
>when I was trying to
>track down land owners. I
>was able to track down
>a guy who owned some
>alfalfa fields that were over
>run with goats and ended
>up filling all tags. But
>if it wasn?t for that,
>I doubt we would have
>killed anything. This unit is
>one of those times where
>just staying home is better
>than dealing with that mess
>


I wonder if your license plate had anything to do with it...

I would scratch 56 off that list as well. Its all checkerboard, that's unless the you have access to a piece of private, which is few and far between with one landowner owning most. There are only about 10 partial sections that even touch public access.
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