A lot of walk in areas change from year to year no way to know for sure if they will be in the system at the time you draw. As far as the quality of the meat don't touch the hide with your hands and touch the meat. The hair has a very musty smell that transfers to the meat. Also figure how to get your meat cooled off hunting that time of the year we often have 80 degree weather. I see to many folks skin the animals and the ground get that smell all over the meat then stick it in a cooler and drive 15 hours and complain. Well you just marinated the meat in sagebrush and antelope hair. An antelope as we call them are not really an antelope but a goat. If your ever around or handle a goat you will know what I mean. We always carry a game hoist that hooks into your receiver hitch and skin them on that use nitrile glove to skin them then bone the meat and put in a cooler with ice jugs not ice cubes or blocks. The melting water will contaminate meat with any bacteria.

I have used Wyoming's HMA program.
Dug up the landowner info, we went to his house to introduce ourselves and to personally THANK him.
He gave use some tips and go to areas ( he had north of 50,000 acres. His wife told us we could camp behind one of their outbuildings to stay out of the wind. And access to domestic water too.

Afterwards, they told us to not bother with going thru HMA program, just come on out and hunt!
Takes a few years to pull a tag there now.

Sent a buddy and his wife there 3 years ago.
They both tagged out first day.

.maybe if you Enjoyed it immensely like I do. Or if you hunted them differently like Stalking or calling it would be more fun for you.
I've had 2 in 15 bad meat. But it's the getting out West experience that makes me go back
I Raise beef in case you want another hunt like you made . I'll let you hunt one of my finished steers.for your meat hunt.

Where the racks Trophy size? 16" or over?
Sounds like a great place. Glad you had Fun!

You think deer is that much better than pronghorn...? To me, both taste about the same. If its a warm to hot day, the goat gets cut up and meat put on ice. I've seen plenty of field dressed antelope bouncing around in the back of a pick up come Monday when people are heading home from say opening weekend. Yeah, I suspect the meat doesn't taste that good by the time its cut up. Then again,

I shot by first nice (SD nice) buck by 0900 on Sat in 1985, field dressed it, and it hung int he shade of a rancher's out building until we left Sunday afternoon. Went back up to college and cut it up in a friend's garage Monday night. Not overly cold or warm that weekend. Meat tasted fine to me that fall and winter eating it, then again, I was a young college kid and maybe didn't know any better...

Trophy to me, lol.

Biggest we've killed there was 14", but have seen a FEW bigger.
Always have an absolute blast.
Low buck, low pressure hunt.

We still laugh about The Tree.
It's the only thing over 4' tall for miles.
Told a buddy to look for it.
His wife killed a nice buck within view.

Granted, you can see it a LONG way off...

Right of pic, just see it poking above hill.

NonPCfed, I can eat it. Like geese and ducks though I dont 't like it. FWIW I know how to make meat.

Last time I ate antelope was in WY. Superbowl was on at a local bar. They had a huge slow cooker in there with texas chili made with antelope chunks. There was enough chilis in there your face bout caught on fire to eat it. I was hungry and ate a bunch. Those chilis covered up that awful antelope meat taste.

Danny clifton- I never said you didn't know how to handle wild meat or inferred that to anyone else on this forum. But I have seen plenty of pick-ups with gutted antelope at gas stations on I-90 that have been laying around in the sun and dust for a good day or two. Just trying to get my point across, in my opinion, there's isn't a lot of daylight between the taste of deer and the taste of pronghorn. The closest I've ate of wild critters to beef is elk. Again, that is my opinion...

Antelope can be good or bad. Personally never had a bad antelope, and rate it up there with bighorn ewe. More mild than Moose, but not quite as flavorful. I'd take antelope anyday over whitetail or muledeer. But like anything else, it's all about the diet.

Dean Chapel- Does Bighorn, even though its a sheep, actually taste like say lamb--few Americans nowadays have actually eaten mutton, I know I haven't. Or does Bighorn taste more like other, hoofed wild game??

What the heck does this even mean?
NRs have PP in Wyoming , you don't have to buy any to hunt but the areas will be iffy for access with 0 PP. We also have 2 draws but no one gets to cut to the front of the line, you draw based on your PP in most areas. For some areas the more expensive draw has worse odds than the Regular draw.

Pronghorn meat is great if taken care of properly, the multitude of doe licenses sold yearly can attest to that.

Wisconsinteacher do you have any PP? If not your choices are slim but doable. Numbers are down right now, another year or 2 and some PP would help you draw.

As far as a trophy antelope its not about length of horns most of the time its about the mass and where the cutters fall on the main horn and beam. One thing for sure with the drought we are going through horn and antler growth is going to suffer on all are big game animals. Also the production of fawns is not going to be the same in a lot of areas.

I agree with Dean, antelope is fine eating. Between black bear, elk, venison, and antelope, we like antelope best. Like any game animal it has to be handled properly. Pronghorn can be a challenge on a warm sunny afternoon with no shade in sight. I've hunted small walk in areas in Wy, typically 1 or 1 1/2 sq miles, so you are never really far from your truck in that situation. After the kill, immediately field dress, prop it open, and beat feet for the truck. Come back with your cart and a couple of bags of ice. The antelope goes on the cart and the ice goes in the body cavity. It will do a lot of cooling down on the way out. Back at the truck break it down, bag it in game bags and plastic and put it on ice. A hitch hoist makes it an easy one person job but I've done them hanging from a back leg on a 6' wood fence post too.

I've heard a lot of chatter about pronghorn tasting bad if they are eating sagebrush, but all of mine have been in sagebrush. I've never seen pronghorn where there isn't sagebrush and I've read they require sagebrush in their diet. I think those folks that have consistently handled a downed pronghorn properly have enjoyed the meat, and those that have not always handled them properly have had some bad experiences.