Show off your Speed Goats!
01-03-2013, 11:45 AM
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Colorado
Posts: 276
Show off your Speed Goats!
Well I love hunting Antelope has always been one of my favorits ever sence I was trying to keep up with my dad as he chased them all over. Show off your Lopes from this season and tell us how you got em.
I went to Wyoming with a Marine buddies of mine and he convenced me to use his 300 win mag haha Yes I know a little more gun thens needed. 250 yrd running full tilt did a cool cartwheel! But nothings better then sharing these times with good frends. Now if I can only get close enough to use the longbow.
I went to Wyoming with a Marine buddies of mine and he convenced me to use his 300 win mag haha Yes I know a little more gun thens needed. 250 yrd running full tilt did a cool cartwheel! But nothings better then sharing these times with good frends. Now if I can only get close enough to use the longbow.
01-24-2013, 05:02 PM
#3
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
2012 Wyoming 80" goat with a .243 Sako using 100 grain Hornady BTSP handloads at a little less than 100 yards after a spot/stalk up a drainage ditch near where he was bedding.
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01-25-2013, 03:47 AM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2009
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01-25-2013, 05:51 AM
#5
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
"What do the prongs measure?"
I can't remember and can't find the sheet with all the numbers, but it was well over 4". His lengths were only 14" and 14 1/8", but his great mass was almost the same all the way up through the third measurement at the base of the prongs. Even the 4th measurement was good because his mass went all the way to the tips. Those first 3 of the 4 circumference measurements was where he picked up a lot of inches because his prongs were so high up, as you can tell when you see how high they are over the ear length. The one in this picture was taken in the same unit in 2009 and had 14 1/2" lengths, but the mass was just average and he scored out around
76".
I can't remember and can't find the sheet with all the numbers, but it was well over 4". His lengths were only 14" and 14 1/8", but his great mass was almost the same all the way up through the third measurement at the base of the prongs. Even the 4th measurement was good because his mass went all the way to the tips. Those first 3 of the 4 circumference measurements was where he picked up a lot of inches because his prongs were so high up, as you can tell when you see how high they are over the ear length. The one in this picture was taken in the same unit in 2009 and had 14 1/2" lengths, but the mass was just average and he scored out around
76".
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01-25-2013, 08:53 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2009
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He certainly is heavy, and the prongs are high. That is one that you don't have to think about too much before you shoot. To me the pronghorn and the kudu are the hardest animals to judge on the hoof.
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01-25-2013, 09:58 AM
#7
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
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You're right about that, as I saw him twice in September during scouting and decided it was him or nothing until near the end of the month long season I had to take him. I finally found him again the 4th morning of the season about 1-1 1/2 miles from where I saw him the first two times. They are very difficult to guesstimate unless you see one which really stands out and with his prongs that high and all that black below them there was only one other one I spotted that got my heart rate up like he did!
01-25-2013, 06:47 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Erie, Colorado
Posts: 1,530
I shot three this year. I took two does in Wyoming with my bow and a buck in Colorado with a custom .243
I made the mistake of not getting a Wyoming "any" antelope tag this past season. I was hosting five newbie goat bow hunters from New York and Indiana. I felt it necessary to give my guests the utmost care during their five day stay.
When the five finished hunting (three took home 15" bucks), I spent two days bow hunting solo. In that period, I had both a 15 and 17 incher within 15 yards. in an effort to count coup, I drew, settled my pin and let down twice on each buck. The 15 yards would have been a chip shot. I'm looking forward to this year!
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...61997425_n.jpg
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...67176127_n.jpg
I made the mistake of not getting a Wyoming "any" antelope tag this past season. I was hosting five newbie goat bow hunters from New York and Indiana. I felt it necessary to give my guests the utmost care during their five day stay.
When the five finished hunting (three took home 15" bucks), I spent two days bow hunting solo. In that period, I had both a 15 and 17 incher within 15 yards. in an effort to count coup, I drew, settled my pin and let down twice on each buck. The 15 yards would have been a chip shot. I'm looking forward to this year!
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...61997425_n.jpg
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...67176127_n.jpg
Last edited by iamyourhuckleberry; 01-25-2013 at 06:51 PM.
01-31-2013, 07:53 AM
#10
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
Very nice goat there Berettaman, especially for your first. He has nice length, a beautiful heart-shaped curl that I always like, and some real nice, sharp cutters. I'm not into scoriing that much, but have an idea about what he would go. Have you scored or had him scored by anyone to tell us what he went?
Last edited by Topgun 3006; 01-31-2013 at 07:56 AM.