WY license (Need a PHD?)

[timberland]

Wading through my license choices and season dates. To my understanding I can hunt in any general tag zone with a general tag. If I want to archery hunt in said zone I must purchase an archery license. got it. now some zones archery is under an archery only tag. How do I find out which tag to apply for. I see some zones that are general tag areas, people apply for draw tags???
I am an archery hunter that wants to hunt 37 or 36, and I don\'t want to draw a tag and wait until Oct. to use it. What tag do I apply for and when would archery season start, sept or oct?

36 and 37 have general tags and archery only tags. Whats the difference, besides the obvious?

 

[WapitiBob]

You just need things explained, lol The one thing lacking in WY is that they don\'t emphatically state that there is a difference between the \"application handbook\" and the \"regulations\". Because the NR draw occurs before regulations are adopted, they provide an application guide. Those aren\'t the regs.....
Looking at the season dates as you did, you know those units have both gen and type 9 archery specific seasons. You can draw the type 9, archery only tag and only hunt 36, or you can draw the rifle gen tag then hunt all gen units with a bow and if you don\'t tag out, hunt with a rifle. For 36, if you draw a type 9 archery only, it is only good for 36 and your season starts Sept 1. If you drew a GEN and bought the special archery license, your season would start Sept 15. To find the \"special archery\" info you have to look in the regulations (see the chart in regulations chapter 7 page 16). There, just past the season dates will be a chart showing which units allow a full price tag holder to hunt with a bow (those with gen, type 1, etc).
The benefit to the type 9 is that you start your hunt on Sept 1, and, there are a few hunts that do not allow the full price guys to buy an archery license and hunt, so the archery guys are in there by themselves, no cross over guys. You will see those units are missing from the chart. 38/39 and 40 I believe.

 

[Deertick]

I\'ve lived in Wyoming for a while now ... and I can tell you you don\'t need to have a Ph.D., but you do need a Chicago lawyer and a friend in the business to understand the regulations.