BuzzH
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Pat and I have had a couple interesting days.
I spent 5-6 days looking for pronghorn in the unit she drew and found a few good bucks. We left for the unit 2 days before the season started and right off the bat we found this buck:
We both felt that this buck was right around 80-81. We also found another buck that was pretty close in size, maybe slightly smaller, but still exceptional. Later that night we were just about back to the highway and found this:
The buck was with about 10 does or so and we watched him for about an hour as he just did pronghorn stuff.
We both decided that looking any further was not necessary...this buck had about everything any hunter could want in a pronghorn...with character to spare.
So the morning prior to opening day we went back and relocated him with no trouble. We then went out again last night and found him again very close to where we'd seen him the previous night.
I'll never forget this photo, seeing that buck on the skyline:
We watched the buck until he bedded with 2 does and we left in the dark, driving down the road without headlights in the pitch black until we were well out of sight.
This morning we got to the spot we left them. Right as it was cracking light I spotted them in the exact spot we'd left them. We quickly formed a plan. We drove to a small flat ridge and parked the truck. By this time the buck and the 2 does had fed down into a slight depression. We got about 140 yards from them and Pat was getting lined up when a truck drove down the road behind the antelope. I had a pretty good idea who it was in the other truck, so I told Pat she better get with the program. She lined up and shot and the buck folded right on the spot. My hunch was right about the other hunter, who is a very serious hunter. We all walked out to the buck and wow. The other hunter put a quick tape to it and by his measurements on the "small" side and came up with 85 net...probably close to 87 gross.
Not much else to say other than its a great buck:
Oh, and one last picture for 1-pointer, who always asks about Bella...yep, she was there.
I spent 5-6 days looking for pronghorn in the unit she drew and found a few good bucks. We left for the unit 2 days before the season started and right off the bat we found this buck:
We both felt that this buck was right around 80-81. We also found another buck that was pretty close in size, maybe slightly smaller, but still exceptional. Later that night we were just about back to the highway and found this:
The buck was with about 10 does or so and we watched him for about an hour as he just did pronghorn stuff.
We both decided that looking any further was not necessary...this buck had about everything any hunter could want in a pronghorn...with character to spare.
So the morning prior to opening day we went back and relocated him with no trouble. We then went out again last night and found him again very close to where we'd seen him the previous night.
I'll never forget this photo, seeing that buck on the skyline:
We watched the buck until he bedded with 2 does and we left in the dark, driving down the road without headlights in the pitch black until we were well out of sight.
This morning we got to the spot we left them. Right as it was cracking light I spotted them in the exact spot we'd left them. We quickly formed a plan. We drove to a small flat ridge and parked the truck. By this time the buck and the 2 does had fed down into a slight depression. We got about 140 yards from them and Pat was getting lined up when a truck drove down the road behind the antelope. I had a pretty good idea who it was in the other truck, so I told Pat she better get with the program. She lined up and shot and the buck folded right on the spot. My hunch was right about the other hunter, who is a very serious hunter. We all walked out to the buck and wow. The other hunter put a quick tape to it and by his measurements on the "small" side and came up with 85 net...probably close to 87 gross.
Not much else to say other than its a great buck:
Oh, and one last picture for 1-pointer, who always asks about Bella...yep, she was there.
