Wyoming 2013

[charlie elk]

Anyone on this board from WY? Wondering if you would be so kind and share some intelligence reports about the status of the turkeys in the Black Hills.
Thanks.

[Gopherlongbeards]

What i heard from my turkey hunting pals on the SD side (who also hunt WY most springs) is that numbers were down in WY as well last year. However, both the WY and SD portions of the BH experienced an excellent hatch this past year, so things should be looking up.

[turkey junky]

just talked with 2 WY biologist & a NWTF biologist about hunting WY as the im still not able to bring my-self to buy a SD black hills tag just to many bad reports & to many roads when i look at a map of SD black hills... but all biologist said they did not have a really good hatch average or slitely below average at best & the year B4 was very bad so you make you own conclusions??? seven J outfitters is trying to sell hunts & they said some of there lands had a good hatch but???

i would call a biologist as there are areas that you will want to avoid as they had really bad hatches the last 2-3 yrs they are kinda rude the biologist in WY that is so you better have a exact question for them or the go into a general info ramble & then pass you to another biologist they seem to not think highly of turkeys there its a true big game state i guess???

im thinking my-self heading to either WY/SD as my hunting area in NE was burnt & is now gone forever i think other NE hunters will be looking to the black hills to do the same as i am cuz the biologist had already had calls about turkey hunting & he said he never gets them this early most mentioned a fire in there old hunting grounds that was troubling to hear also!!!???

the SD black hills has spotty reports at best 1 biologist says there is birds every wear in the hills 1 biologist says he cant even get a turkey in the spring time in the hills he hunts them in the fall & another biologist says you have tons of road hunters & he hunts the prairie units instead of around his home in the SD black hills so???

i may just say forget mountain merriams for now & just go to a prairie unit in SD or try some new areas in NE!!!??? good or bad year NE has plenty of turkeys to be had only thing is sometimes they have plenty of hunters also so!!!???