Wyoming Antelope Double
cowslayer
5/14/09 12:04am
My wife and I were lucky enough to draw some good antelope tags for Wyoming last year. After the rough winter I was nervous that all of the Antelope died in the Unit. I was happy to see after the first scouting trip that our hunt was going to be fun!!! I tried to bowhunt these amazing animals by spot and stalk and quickly decided to come back with the rifles. I shoot a .300 RUM and my wife was shooting a .243.
The night before the hunt we were all alone on top of a little hill looking at some good bucks. I decided that if I saw my buck in the morning that I would shoot him. After a fun night of camping with the family and an early morning. We were back in position looking over the valley where I left "my buck" the night before. After several minutes of scouring the sage with my Vortex Razor 10X42s. I found him pushing some other bucks around and chasing some does. I made the decision that if I could sneak in on him that I would cut the tag. I couldn't close the distance initially to under 800 yards. After 30 minutes of repositioning I was able to get within 320 yards... I put the SnipePod down and was able to hit him perfectly. He ran as if he wasn't hit and with the recoil I couldn't tell that I had hit him. My little boy told me that I hit him and that he knew he was down just over the hill. He was right. This was my first antelope buck and I was stoked.
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Now that mine was done, the hunt was on for my wifes. After several hours of looking over bucks and trying to outwit their amazing sight. We found "Flare"... Flare was a cool buck that had a cool Horn Configuration that my wife wanted! After cutting the distance to 230 yards, she was able to drop this buck in it's tracks with a well place shot. She had to compensate for a 20+ MPH cross wind and here are the results.
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Here are the mounts done by Paul Pennie.
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CS
The night before the hunt we were all alone on top of a little hill looking at some good bucks. I decided that if I saw my buck in the morning that I would shoot him. After a fun night of camping with the family and an early morning. We were back in position looking over the valley where I left "my buck" the night before. After several minutes of scouring the sage with my Vortex Razor 10X42s. I found him pushing some other bucks around and chasing some does. I made the decision that if I could sneak in on him that I would cut the tag. I couldn't close the distance initially to under 800 yards. After 30 minutes of repositioning I was able to get within 320 yards... I put the SnipePod down and was able to hit him perfectly. He ran as if he wasn't hit and with the recoil I couldn't tell that I had hit him. My little boy told me that I hit him and that he knew he was down just over the hill. He was right. This was my first antelope buck and I was stoked.
Now that mine was done, the hunt was on for my wifes. After several hours of looking over bucks and trying to outwit their amazing sight. We found "Flare"... Flare was a cool buck that had a cool Horn Configuration that my wife wanted! After cutting the distance to 230 yards, she was able to drop this buck in it's tracks with a well place shot. She had to compensate for a 20+ MPH cross wind and here are the results.
Here are the mounts done by Paul Pennie.
CS
9,343
Very nice pics and a good story to support the pics thanks for posting it.
VERY COOL! CONGRATS
Bear2
Chris
I think its awesome that you involved your whole family.. Cute family photo with the buck ..