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Old 03-10-2011 | 03:33 AM
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Wingbone
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We were hunting with rifles. If I were bowhunting, I'd put a ground blind near a waterhole and park on it. We paid the rancher to hunt and camp on his land. We camped in a prairie dog town. He told us to go ahead and shoot all the prairie dogs we wanted too, but we didn't want to spook the antelope. He even showed us where the antelope were ahead of time. There was public land nearby with just as many goats on it as the ranch. If you are willing to do some walking to get away from the roads, I think the hunting would be good there too. The advantage of private land was we could drive anywhere we wanted too, which reduced the work getting the antelope out.
Bring big coolers and lots of ice. It was about 85 deg. while we were hunting. Getting them cut up and cool quickly is the secret to getting good tasting meat.
One other thing, antelope have distinctive odor when you first get near them. To me they smell like popcorn, swear to God!
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