DANGLER
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Spent last week "shopping" for goats in WY. I got a call about 2 weeks ago from one of my bosses asking if I had the time to take a customer on an antelope hunt in WY. Not being one to ever turn down a hunt, I jumped at the chance.
We drove down from Billings to Glenrock last Monday and started our hunt on Tuesday. Seemed awfully strange to drive by literally thousands of antelope, just to go hunt antelope, but that is just what we did.
This hunt was hosted by Leupold and there were 10 hunters in camp. It was a great group of guys made up of reps and customers from across the US. There were guys that have taken truck loads of antelope, and several that had never even seen one before.
After looking at 100-150 bucks in the first 3 hours of the first morning, it became very apparent that the outfitters claim of more than 4000 resident antelope on this ranch, was no exageration.
Finding goats was not a problem whatsoever.... In fact I don't think there was more than 5 minutes that went by that we weren't in sight of antelope. There were even bucks chasing does arround in the farm yard at times, and right behind the bunkhouse. I looked at more antelope in the two days I hunted, than I do in entire seasons in MT.
I figure I looked at probably 400+ bucks before I pulled the trigger.... many of which may have been bigger than the one I eventually took. I am pretty happy with the one I took though.... and not neccesarily because of the size. After driving right up to countless bucks, I found it much more rewarding to conduct an hour and half long stock on foot on this buck, ending in a shot through the heart at 402 yards........ Although being the true sportsman I am, I did give him the obligitory warning shots required by an unwritten but very much respected Wyoming law.
I did get some great video clips of this and other bucks, and as I get time I will try and post some of those as well.
Elkwhisper
We drove down from Billings to Glenrock last Monday and started our hunt on Tuesday. Seemed awfully strange to drive by literally thousands of antelope, just to go hunt antelope, but that is just what we did.
This hunt was hosted by Leupold and there were 10 hunters in camp. It was a great group of guys made up of reps and customers from across the US. There were guys that have taken truck loads of antelope, and several that had never even seen one before.
After looking at 100-150 bucks in the first 3 hours of the first morning, it became very apparent that the outfitters claim of more than 4000 resident antelope on this ranch, was no exageration.
Finding goats was not a problem whatsoever.... In fact I don't think there was more than 5 minutes that went by that we weren't in sight of antelope. There were even bucks chasing does arround in the farm yard at times, and right behind the bunkhouse. I looked at more antelope in the two days I hunted, than I do in entire seasons in MT.
I figure I looked at probably 400+ bucks before I pulled the trigger.... many of which may have been bigger than the one I eventually took. I am pretty happy with the one I took though.... and not neccesarily because of the size. After driving right up to countless bucks, I found it much more rewarding to conduct an hour and half long stock on foot on this buck, ending in a shot through the heart at 402 yards........ Although being the true sportsman I am, I did give him the obligitory warning shots required by an unwritten but very much respected Wyoming law.
I did get some great video clips of this and other bucks, and as I get time I will try and post some of those as well.
Elkwhisper
