2017 Pronghorn Hunt

stubblejumper

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With the huge fire, the extreme fire hazard, and drought all spring and summer. we almost never bothered to go, but my friends had never hunted pronghorn, and none of use will ever draw another tag in Alberta. We drove down and scouted Sunday, saw five bucks, but nothing over 13". Monday we headed out to the pasture hoping to find a larger buck, and at 9am, we saw this guy, and decided that we had better take him, as the odds of finding a huge buck were against us this year. We parked the truck behind a hill, made a stalk, and when we peeked over the hill, they were on the move. We dropped below the hill covered 200 yards as quickly as we could, and peeked the next hill to see them about 300 yards away. My friends had never shot a pronghorn, so I set up the sticks and told one of them to take the shot. Both of them were breathing hard, and didn't feel that they could be steady enough to make the shot. I put my rifle up on the sticks just as the buck turned as if he was going to leave. At the shot he folded and fell dead. We cleaned the buck and carried on, and found a smaller buck a couple of hours later, and a friend used my rife to make a 250 yard shot. At that point, we cleaned the buck, and headed for home.

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Very nice Buck! Congratulations!! I will be hunting pronghorn in the SE corner of AB from 16-21 Oct this year. We finally got drawn after 9 years of trying...
 
Horns were 14-1/4", scored 72. I was using my custom 7mmstw with a 150gr TTSX at 3400fps. Scope is s Swarovski Z5 3.5-18×44.
 
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The buck was angling towards me, the bullet entered the base of the neck, and came out behind the front shoulder, very little lost meat. The other buck was a broadside, and again not a lot of lost meat. A bullet like a Ballistic Tip, would have done a lot more damage.
 
:) Very nice! Congrats on your Speed Goat. The heart shape horn configuration looks identical to the one I got in southern Alberta 2014. The hunt had been set up as sort of a post retirement gift by my Daughter and Son In Law in AB. They were my hunting partners and guides and we came away with three. :redface: I haven't, yet, arranged for a replacement set up for photobucket so I can't post photos but if you're interested, PM me your e-mail address and I'll send the photos to you.
 
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