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Old 10-02-2005 | 05:15 PM
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Default RE: Pronghorn hunting?

The goat I shot last year was as good eatin' as any whitetail I've shot. I'm sure it depends on what they've been eating (and there was plenty of sage around where I shot him), but most of all, how much they've been running from hunters. I shot mine with a rifle, but if I were heading west to bowhunt for pronghorns, I know I'd definitely use a decoy (they even make them with drop down "windows" to shoot through) to draw a rut crazed buck into range. There in lies the tough part...range estimation. A rangefinder is out of the question once a buck comes storming in to run off the "intruder", and in that open country, what appears to be an easy 30 yd gimmee, can easily be a45ydclean miss. It'd sure be exciting, and would beat sitting in the sun by a watering hole in my opinion.
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