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cayugad 08-24-2012 06:09 PM

I have gotten to where I hate shooting does. Even if I can use the meat. I guess I figure I am not going to starve, and letting them go only increased our tiny population of deer.

That is flat open country right? Must be hard to put the sneak on a antelope.

1874sharpsshooter 08-24-2012 06:21 PM


Originally Posted by cayugad (Post 3964473)
I have gotten to where I hate shooting does. Even if I can use the meat. I guess I figure I am not going to starve, and letting them go only increased our tiny population of deer.

That is flat open country right? Must be hard to put the sneak on a antelope.

Yeah it's flat open country where the antelope hang out. Come rifle season it will get difficult to get within a couple hundred yards, right now it's a little easier, but i still haven't been able to get within Bow range. Most people set up a blind near water and wait. I prefer spot and stalk . Belly crawling sure gets harder each year . I had to resort to buying knee pads this year. I guess I got to face the fact that I'm wearing down. A 40 pound pack anymore just about does me in. Not sure how I'm going to handle Mt Lion season this year and that's what I wait for more than all other seasons combined. Such is life
For antelope hunting I use desert camo pants and just a tan long sleeve t shirt to blend in with prairie grass and stubble fields. I made a face mask with a white throat patch like an antelope and I use an antelope head decoy as a hat . Looks funky but gets me fairly close

ronlaughlin 08-25-2012 05:47 AM

What i wonder is if you could take one of your goat with, and be able to walk right up to pronghorn wearing that get up?.?.

SuperKirby 08-25-2012 06:09 AM

I just saw something the other day where a guy had a tan goat with white on it's neck and dark colored ears hanging down that kind of mimicked the brown sideburns. He took it antelope hunting with him, but I can't remember how it turned out.

cayugad 08-25-2012 07:26 AM

One of them 3-D bow targets could be painted also. And they are light and easy to carry. The ears were kicked off of mine by a Doe that wanted to commit suicide, So I had to prop them up with wooden skewers. And you can take the horns off. That would make a good decoy.

I have used it on whitetail as a decoy and strange as it sounds, it works. One year I put Tinks #9 Doe in Heat Buck Lure on a White handkerchief and then pinned that to where the tail is. I had a real small three pointer come right up to the decoy. He looked nervous, but that might have been because it would be his first love... ;)


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