I'mback from my hunt in Wyoming for Antelope. I was great! I've never in my life seen so many animals. I did get a small buck and am having the skull mounted in the European mount style (horns and skull). I was driving along one of the hiways between two BLM properties and spotted 2 does and a buck meandering around. When I finally decided to hunt them, I was so wound up, I just stopped. My hunting partner had to talk a bit of sense into me and drop me off under to cover a rise in the terrain. he drove on to glass a large basin a few miles down where he planned to hunt. I was dressing and having a heart attack at the same time I was attempting to stalk the Antelope that were coming my way. By the timeI had everything in place,the 3 goats were closer thanI had originally seen them. They were walking and grazing in a diagonal that would cross my path. I kept popping up and looking over the small rises as I first crouch walked, then crawled on hands and knees and finally on my belly. At some point, I thought I should drop my back pack otherwise I would look like a turtle and scare the Antelope. I was able to crawl within about 50 yards of the three and put a shot into the buck. He just stood there while the other two ran faster than anything I've ever seen in my life! That on it's own was an incredible sight for me. The buck just kept standing there looking off to the horizon. I thoughtI must have just missed. I reloaded and just asI pulled the trigger, he dropped back onto his haunches and caught the shot in the neck that exited the other side at his jaw. I was shaking so bad and was so excited I had a hard time getting back up from my prone position. I let him lay for a few minutes and went over to find him laying on his side. That's about the time I realizedI needed to start to breathe again. This is my first Antelope and my first buck!

I've talked to a few people about why I was able to come so close to the buck and why he just stood there after he was hit the first time. I was shooting a .270 Remington Core-Lock 150 gr. bullet. Most people said that they believe the slug probably didn't have a chance to mushroom and probably just zipped through leaving the Antelope just wondering why he didn't feel too good.