Another fine NM oryx on the ground

[Brentc]

After striking out on all of my applications earlier this year, I was a little worried about how this year's hunting season would play out. Thankfully, I got a couple fortuitous phone calls from both Utah for a pronghorn tag and NM for a population management Oryx tag on the Dona Ana range. I made both tags count by killing an 80" pronghorn in September followed up with a beautiful oryx in NM last Saturday. The most important part is the fabulous meat my family and I get to enjoy for the rest of the year. God is good.

 

[jrabq]

Wow, that's a tremendous oryx!! And on a depredation hunt, congrats!

And great photo!

 

[Big Fin]

I like that ....... a LOT. Congratulations.

 

[Valley1320]

Congrats! Awesome oryx!

 

[Huntmt28]

Nice job!! Very cool

 

[blueridge]

Beautiful animal. Congratulations. I hear it's very good eating.

 

[fulldraw]

Congrats on the great oryx!

 

[MarvB]

Way to rally back on your season!
Great oryx.

 

[RobertD]

Great photo and great animal. Just curious, bull or cow?

 

[Brentc]

Beautiful animal. Congratulations. I hear it's very good eating.

It's right up there with the very best game meat.

 

[Brentc]

Great photo and great animal. Just curious, bull or cow?

It's a cow.

 

[RobertD]

It's a cow.

I thought so, with horns like that. Really beautiful animal

 

[.270Rem]

That's fantastic! Excellent pic and enjoy all that oryx meat. I tried some jerky from one a few years back and it was tasty stuff.

 

[Mtnhunter1]

Very Nice! Beautiful critter...congrats

 

[bobbydean]

40 inch. Depredation hunt.

Cow?

Outstanding!

 

[Wallydeuce]

Wow! Well done indeed!
Congratulations on a great harvest!

 

[fishing4sanity]

I'd take that kind of an 'application strikeout' year, any year. My sample size is limited to one oryx, but I'd say it's the best tasting meat out there. Congratulations on a beautiful oryx!

 

[fallfreak]

Wow! Great oryx. Congrats

 

[targetpanic]

I love the colors in the face of an oryx! Great job congrats!

 

[OntarioHunter]

After striking out on all of my applications earlier this year, I was a little worried about how this year's hunting season would play out. Thankfully, I got a couple fortuitous phone calls from both Utah for a pronghorn tag and NM for a population management Oryx tag on the Dona Ana range. I made both tags count by killing an 80" pronghorn in September followed up with a 40+" oryx in NM last Saturday. The most important part is the fabulous meat my family and I get to enjoy for the rest of the year. God is good.
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A forty inch cow is a real dandy! Mine is 36" and nothing to scoff at. Still trying to talk the farmer in South Africa into giving up a very special bull he claims is 44". I have seen that monster and I believe he's at least 44"! That old boy has been on the property several years and it may be be time to get in some fresh genes. However Greg has a huge farm and lots of gemsbuck so it may not be that critical yet. My PH is working on it. That bull is very spooky and generally keeps his gals in the more barren parts so it would be a challenge.

You have the best eating and, in my opinion, some of the worst. I finally got to eat gemsbuck this last trip. Unbelievable! Best red meat these lips have ever touched, no doubt about it. Never been a fan of pronghorn. In the right marinade and over the BBQ it can be quite palatable. But dog turds can be tasty given the same treatment. Or so my dad told me. I think he was kidding ... but maybe not. He did grow up during the Depression.