2017 Wyo antelope success

[2nasty4u]

great looking buck, love the cutters, congratulations!!!

 

[spidr]

great job and great trip with your father ...Quality father son is time is hard to beat. killing and fantastic antelope I am sure is just icing on the cake

 

[Matt R]

Thanks for Sharing and congratulations on harvesting a beautiful prongbuck with dad by your side; my guess is that his meat should be fantastic with you shooting him relaxed in his bed.

 

[mdunc8]

Nice buck! Looks like he's got great probgs. Congrats.

How tall is he?

 

[rmyoung1]

Nice buck! Looks like he's got great probgs. Congrats.

How tall is he?

He's not super tall. A rough measurement (green, of course) was like 14-4/8" and 14-6/8". What he does have going for him is his high prongs and he carries some mass through the tips.

Thanks for the kind remarks, guys. It was a cool trip with my dad and just a lot of fun. If I get the chance I should post a few more pics of the ghost town that is Jeffrey City. Interesting place.

 

[7mm08mo]

Very nice buck, enjoyed the write up.

 

[Tikka06]

Very nice buck. Congrats. Can't wait to get back out there next year myself.

 

[Bowaddic]

Great Buck Congrats.

 

[rmyoung1]

One of the underrated aspects of hunting is the what you learn from the things you weren't actually trying to find. The history surrounding my hunting area was fascinating. I was after pronghorn, but I found much more. Jeffrey City is a modern-day ghost town. Back during the Cold War, uranium mining was big business, and the hills around Jeffrey City had uranium. The town exploded in the late-50s and 60s. In the late-70s, during another up-turn in the uranium market, Jeffrey City got up to 4,000 residents. Then the market fell out in 1980. By '82, three-fourths of the town's residents had left. Today a mere 50 residents remain. That's almost a 99% reduction in population! For the last 35 years, nature has patiently been returning the town back into Wyoming prairie.

 

[rmyoung1]

And then, when you're hunting central Wyoming, there's the mighty Oregon Trail and its many historically-significant sites slicing through your hunting area. Just a fascinating place...

 

[jwilkstn]

Congrats on a special hunt!

Really cool about the ghost town. I didn't realize we had modern-day ghost towns to that extent. I'm with you, though, that the overall experience of exploring and learning about a foreign area is half the fun in a trip. Too bad such trips have to be so short and infrequent.

 

[fishing4sanity]

Congrats on a super pronghorn! Reading your hunt report made it even harder on me knowing I don't have a tag this year, but was a great read and photos, thanks for sharing. Bonus points for sharing it with your dad.

 

[1_pointer]

Very well done!

 

[efw]

Wow nice buck congrats!

 

[prhunter]

Congrats on a nice buck. I hope to get up there someday.

 

[JLS]

Great buck! That's a cool area, and good on you for spending time with your Dad.

 

[Walkitoff]

Great buck, buddy (and nice shot placement at 260).

Make room in your freezer. 2nd season is coming up!

 

[efw]

Man nice buck and what an awesome experience congrats!!!!

I’m heading out to Wyoming w/ my son this evening in hopes of duplicating your experience!

Thanks for the inspiration!!

 

[DRS]

Very nice buck.

 

[JMBC]

I was in jeffrey city last yr. Enjoyed that trip as well. good people