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Ran up to Wyoming for a day of antler hunting. Had intended on a couple or three days, but I played basketball hard over the weekend and my legs were toast. So one day was it. Found a few antlers
The winterkill was hard to see. Multiple groups of what appeared to be a doe and two fawns I’d find dead together. They get up into draws with a few high sage bushes. It looked like they just ate everything there and died. By the looks of the brush, the snow had to have been 2-1/2 feet deep. Brush was strip clean above that mark. I looked close at most of the 25 or so dead deer I saw and only one was a buck.
And the people!! Lots of people. With that delayed opener and it likely being the last year for NR’s, it was crazy.
The winterkill was hard to see. Multiple groups of what appeared to be a doe and two fawns I’d find dead together. They get up into draws with a few high sage bushes. It looked like they just ate everything there and died. By the looks of the brush, the snow had to have been 2-1/2 feet deep. Brush was strip clean above that mark. I looked close at most of the 25 or so dead deer I saw and only one was a buck.
And the people!! Lots of people. With that delayed opener and it likely being the last year for NR’s, it was crazy.
