Looking to fill the freezer with meat and just hunt? Don't overlook how incredible an antlerless hunt can be. The most underrated hunt in the West and here's how to find those antlerless hunt opportunities
You can quickly access all antlerless hunting opportunities in each state in our Filtering tool at the bottom of the species list.
Once you click on an antlerless hunt, you can access all the unit-by-unit data, plus draw odds.
Using the GOHUNT mobile app, finding an antlerless hunting opportunity is super simple.
Antlerless draw odds are located at the bottom part of the "species" list on our standalone Draw Odds page under each state.
Antlerless hunts are a great way to add to your season and are also a phenomenal way to fill up your freezer.
Finding these opportunity-type hunts on GOHUNT Insider is a very easy process. You can find antlerless hunts on our Filtering research tool as well as on our standalone Draw Odds page.
Back in 2018, we launched antlerless draw odds on Insider. This opened the door to figure out what antlerless hunts you can draw. Then, in 2021, we expanded this offering to showcase all antlerless hunts!
A lot of people probably skip or don't notice that we have full antlerless hunt research on GOHUNT because they see "elk" or "mule deer" and instantly start there, but if you scroll further on the species list on both Filtering and Draw Odds, you'll see our antlerless species selection.
Accessing antlerless hunts on Filtering is super easy, and this can be accomplished on the web side of Insider or on our mobile app.
Start by hovering your mouse over "Tools" in the top navigation bar and then click on "Filtering." Next, select your state and then finally scroll down the list of species to the bottom and tap on an antlerless species.
Now you'll have the same Filtering flow that you're familiar with when researching for antlered hunts.
In seconds, you can research antlerless hunts on our mobile app. To access antlerless hunting research tools on the GOHUNT mobile app, open the app, tap on Research, select the section under Hunt finder, and then tap a species and then select the antlerless option from that species list. Finally, select a weapon, then select one or many states that you'd want to research for a cow elk hunt.
From there, you can narrow down your filters, adjust your sort settings, scroll through all the units to see the data or jump into a Unit Profile to find out more information about that unit.
Antlerless draw odds are located at the bottom part of the "species" list on our standalone Draw Odds page.
You can access antlerless/female draw odds on the web by hovering your mouse over "Tools" in the top navigation bar, but don't click anything yet. Then you should see a drop-down section and you'll need to scroll down and click on "Draw Odds." After those steps, you will end up on our standalone Draw Odds page.
From there, you'll select a state and then residency. It will show you all the antlerless options if you scroll down on the right-hand side under the "Species" section (see the screenshot above for an example in Montana). Then, just click on one of them to see draw odds in each unit. Now you have the same tools you would find if you were looking for antlered draw odds where you can enter your points, season, filtering by draw odds percentage, etc.
We cover everything from antlerless elk to antlerless whitetail, mule deer, blacktail, and doe antelope, all the way up to bighorn sheep ewe and cow moose, plus many more. If it is an antlerless hunt that runs under a draw, we cover it on GOHUNT Insider!
In the video below, Trail Kreitzer goes over how you can make the most of your hunting season by picking up an antlerless tag, and he shows where you can find antlerless draw odds within GOHUNT Insider.
The best part about Trail's video is that he will show you exactly how to find a cow elk hunt that you can draw and hunt this year, even if you don't have any points built up!
If you're looking for even more information on researching cow elk hunts, be sure to check out this article: How to easily find your next cow elk or spike elk hunt
Your main opportunities for adding one of these hunts are cow elk, doe deer species, and doe antelope, but keep in mind that some states have antlerless moose, ewe bighorn sheep, etc. If you want to go hunting more, dive in and find an antlerless opportunity today using our standalone Draw Odds page and Filtering set of research tools.
This article was originally published on March 4, 2021, and has been updated with more information.
