Cow and antlerless elk tags are abundant for the area bull tags are difficult to draw, and the area has a reputation for producing large bulls. For limited quota draw tags, hunters must apply and pay early, usually in May, and will have their money refunded if they fail in the drawing.Īrea 7 is draw tag only.
Archery hunts are set to open September 1 in both areas, while most rifle hunts there don’t begin until October.Īrea 6 has a mixture of general tag hunts – for hunters who have purchased elk tags over the counter – and draw tag hunts. Those tags are valid only on private property in Platte County where hunters have the landowner’s permission. The earliest season there this year is a special draw tag, antlerless elk hunt in area 7 that opened on Monday. Hunt areas 6 and 7 are highly favored for an abundance of elk across a variety of terrain.
The press release doesn’t specify on which side of the highway to bull was killed, and Game and Fish personnel from the Laramie Regional Office could not be reached for comment late Wednesday. The stretch of Highway 34 where the poaching took place runs between elk hunt area 7 to the north and hunt area 6 to the south. It’s also illegal to shoot game animals from a road or highway. The press release doesn’t specify if it’s suspected the bull was shot from the highway. The bull’s head and antlers were then apparently taken sometime either late August 6 or Early August 7, while the carcass was left to rot.Īlong with the killing being out of season, it is illegal in Wyoming to abandon any edible portion of a big game carcass. The animal, described in a Wyoming Game and Fish Department press release as “a mature bull” was evidently illegally shot late August 5 or early August 6 along Wyoming Highway 34 about 2 ½ miles west of the Thorne/Williams Wildlife Research Center in Sybille Canyon.
The carcass was fully intact when wardens first investigated the scene, so it wasn’t clear if the person or people involved in the shooting were the same who came by later and took the head and antlers.Ī large bull elk was illegally shot earlier this month near Wheatland along a highway that runs between two of southeast Wyoming’s premier elk hunt areas. It still wasn’t clear whether it had been shot from the highway. It was confirmed on Thursday that the bull was killed on the south side of the highway, in hunt area 6, Game and Fish public information officer Robin Kepple told Cowboy State Daily.
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