Took this pic last week along the highway north of Walden Co..
One of the biggest herds I think I've ever seen. if you are reading this then this should be on the list of your hunting sites.
Now that is some story. Weston County is 400 miles North East of me. I would have recommended another area had we hooked up earlier. The Trophy areas are harder for an NR to draw. That said, Migratory areas are larger and more isolated. We used to only shoot the 15" to 16" Goats. It seems now days guides charge a Trophy fee for the 14" critters ? We have one the wife took on the Powder River in 1974. It was 17" and 9.5" at the base. It missed the book by 1 1/4 points. It has shrunk some over the years.
I read your original story on that hunt but I don't remember you saying fountain inn!!! I used to base there when I was driving truck, and one of my old teacher's daughter in law works as a manager there. They really are a great crowd!
A LOT of those eastern herds migrate over here to our alfalfa fields to create super herds, I can't remember how many times I've stopped counting after 200 when watching the winter herds on a pivot circle, ripping up bales and bouncing from field to field, one year, we had over 500 in a 5 mile radius on about 7 fields. One neighbor sells high $$$$$$ alfalfa to the dairies in Colorado so they are ALWAYS welcoming antelope hunters, but even our late season only allows about 35 tags.The "Goats" migrate from the Wyoming Red Desert to Colorado in the Winter. They migrate between both states during the hunting seasons. They are neat creatures that have survived for a million years. Nice picture.
