Antelope hunt next week!

No way I'd hunt with a decoy in rifle season.

The sight lines are long and WIDE OPEN on the flatlands. I have my opinions of personal visibility too, but you see the arse end of running antelope herds a lot more than a single one standing stock still out in the open.
 
Speed Goat down!

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The story is kind of funny.

I spent first light hiking 3 miles into a foot access only grazing lease. The herd I was after was in a spot I didn't expect and busted me. I tried to close the distance by belly crawling in what small depressions in the prairie there were, but every time I got to the next rise they were further and further away. I eventually gave up as I didn't want to push them right out of the lease and I figured they would eventually come back and I could hunt them that night or the next morning. In total I hiked 8 miles in the morning.

In the afternoon I was on a grazing lease at the end of a cattle trail (as far as you could go in a truck, foot access only past that point) just glassing around, eating my soup ect.

A herd of about 40 came out of the river valley and started walking towards my truck. It wasn't running and since I was just sitting there they were not bothered by it. They walked from about 400 meters away to a point 92 meters (closest point) in front of my truck getting to another field. I saw the biggest buck was at the back, herding his harem. I slipped out of my truck and onto a small rise and waited until the buck got to the point 92 meters away and dropped him. Bang flop.

Funny how one spends so much time and effort hiking into a foot access only area, only to later get a buck while eating his lunch in the truck!
 
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Saw this.

Didn't have permission on the property.

The search continues.
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If you can see them, they've already seen you. Just keep telling yourself that.

But, if there's two of you, or they're fixated on someone else, opportunity knocks, if you don't mind a few cactus spines. :redface: Antelope is some of the best eating.


Grizz
 
Congrats Bfranklin!!

My issue was never spotting them, it was getting close enough without being spotted! Although as I said in my story, I also ended up with an easy shot.
 
This is the same one I posted a pic of Tuesday. That day it was 200 yds away, this morning was a 300 yd shot. And then drove the truck right up to it.
 
Congrats Cam!
I see it often. Good things happen when you slow down.

Are you getting him mounted?

Thats awesome!
Congrats on the harvest and kudos for getting him mounted, i for one cannot wait to see him finished off!! :)
Well done man / Men with Bfranklisn efforts. exceepppt..... not alot of stories gettin thrown down ;)
 
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