HI All!

We returned from Wyoming on saturday. 4 of us went with 2 tags a piece and we brought back 7 antelope. I was able to harvest a buck and a doe. My buck measured 12 1/2 " on the right side and about 12 on the left as he had broken it off. He has good diggers I' m guessing them at about 4" sticking out from the main beam and he has decent mass. I just can' t quite close my hand completely around them, so I' m assuming they are decent. Killed him at 210 yards. The doe was a mature doe and I shot her at about 236 yards. She had been herded for quite awhile by the buck with her and my first shot at her shoulder didn' t even phase her. I brought her down with a second shot as she ran straight away from me at about 250 or so. We had a great time! The highlight of the trip were the 8 bull elk we saw on the ranch we were hunting. A cow led the largest one down to a waterhole we happened to be stopped at and when they finally winded us, she was almost in bow range...about 45-50 yards. The bull , a beautifil 8x6, was about 100 yards away when they took off! We joked that, had we had elk licenses we would never have seen any at all! Thanks for all the help and I wish i' d have had a digital camera so i could share some pics.... Maybe by the next time we go, I' ll have one!

The 4 bucks we were able to take were all 13 " except for mine. My uncle' s 13" buck was really nice! Real wide and very massive! My Dad' s and my cousin' s while longer than mine, were a bit smaller in the mass department.

Overall we just had a great time!


Now it' s time to prepare for bowseason here in missouri....I can' t wait for the first day I have off.........

GH

BTW.....

I was under the impression that antelope didn' t really cope well with fences. In most cases, I saw them crossing where there were holes in the fence. I did however, see 2 bucks that just flat out jumped the dern things! The landowner told us when she was younger, they almost exclusively crawled under or went through fences, but in the last 10 years or so they had started routinely started jumping. I was skeptical until i saw it with my own eyes! Another highlight of the trip, was getting to watch a buck antelope cover a doe not 75 yards from our truck on some public land near where we were staying. I' ve hunted deer for many years here in Missouri and have never witnessed it in the wild.