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2 months ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Jaden Bales
Photo Credit: byrdyakEarlier this week, the Wyoming House Agriculture Committee passed along bill HB0186–Bear Coupons-game and fish to be voted on the floor with a narrow 5 to 4 vote. This bill, originally written to provide bear tags to every resident who purchased an elk tag, found itself with a lot of attention from bear hunters and sporting groups alike for the disruption it would cause to the current system for bear hunting in Wyoming and lack of science-based management behind it.
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2 months ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Jaden Bales
Home / Free Content / Wyoming: No Closed Season On Cougars?
Free Content, General, Mountain Lion Hunting, Predator Hunting, Wyoming
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Photo Credit: WirestockLike hunting mountain lions?
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
blog.eastmans.com | Jaden Bales
Could someone expect to consistently put a mule deer and whitetail general tag in their pocket in Wyoming one day? SF0003-Mule and Whitetail Deer Separate Hunting Seasons may be marching its way through the Legislature to make that a reality by providing a bill that gives the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) the authority to create a separation of pricing and applications in the tag system between whitetail and mule deer licenses in the State.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
blog.eastmans.com | Jaden Bales
Home / Wyoming / Big Game Applications in Wyoming Are OPEN!
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Did you know you can ring in the New Year by starting applying for 2025 hunting tags in Wyoming on January 2nd?
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
blog.eastmans.com | Jaden Bales
If you have done the arithmetic, you probably know the chances of catching the top point levels for a premier hunt in any state are slim to none if you are not within striking distance now. Wyoming is no exception. Many folks who saw a top tag go for 15 points a few years ago are now seeing it go for 18 points and you are no closer to drawing than you were a handful of preference points ago.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
blog.eastmans.com | Jaden Bales
Home / CWD / Oregonians Cited For Taking Home CWD-Positive Wyoming Bucks… and how you can make sure you’re in the clear CWD, Free Content, General, Mule Deer, Oregon 23 Views Photo credit: Wirestock_Envato After checking in their Cody Region mule deer at a Wyoming Game and Fish check station, three happy Oregonian hunters returned home to discover two of their bounty were positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s press release and additional...
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
blog.eastmans.com | Jaden Bales
Photo Credit: Mike Eastman / Article By: Jaden BalesIn October 2023, I guided an older gentleman who used his maximum preference points for one of Wyoming’s premier hunting areas. This man had hunted top units in Utah and Colorado and had taken quite a few nice bulls over his career, his biggest run around the 350” mark. His goal for a guided hunt in one of Wyoming’s top areas was to break 370”.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
blog.eastmans.com | Jaden Bales
There is something special about glassing up a big old buck in a burn. They often are magnets to mule deer across the West with the new forage growth, something ecologists would call an “early successional habitat” that brings all the muley boys to the yard. The natural cycle of burns and regrowth, then maturing before burning again has been all but lost in today’s era of fire suppression and lack of national forest logging.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
blog.eastmans.com | Jaden Bales |Jessica Baglio
Why Winterkill is the Hunter’s Recession: there’s always a bull (or buck) market somewhereBy Jaden Bales Hunter Matt Standing Over Roadkill Buck Near Casper. Anyone familiar with bull & bear financial markets can appreciate the up-and-down nature of investing in assets and gritting your teeth as you watch prices for them.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
blog.eastmans.com | Jaden Bales
Is Your Hunting Spot Burning? By Jaden Bales2023 was an unusually wet and delayed summer for many places across the West, leading to the lowest number of acres burned by wildfire in over 20 years. However, in the past week or more fire season has turned on across the West with blazes from Eastern Montana to Southern California and most places in between. For Wyomingites and Montanans, the majority of fires have been in the eastern plains, in places most widely pictured as vast pronghorn country.
