** Wyoming Antelope Trip results......**
09-18-2006 | 07:44 PM
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RE: ** Wyoming Antelope Trip results......**
Frank, you should post that picture here again or in the photo thread. I still think it's one of the finest examples of great game photographs that I've seen.
09-19-2006 | 11:47 AM
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RE: ** Wyoming Antelope Trip results......**
Update:
I know a couple peopple asked me what he scores and until today I had not measured. I stopped home from lunch as my package arrived from WY and after getting the meat in the freezer I put a tape to him......
I printed off the P&Y scoring sheet and took my time measuring him exactly according to the guidelines and came up with the exact same score all 3 times....69"Gross P&Y with only 1/2" deduction side to side which makes him a 68 4/8" Net score.
Not sure if most Pronghorn Antelope are this symmetrical but he's almost identical side to side with 1/4" difference in total mass, and 1/4" difference on one prong.
Lengths and most mass measurements are identical.
So at 68 4/8" Net he is the first official Pope & Young animal I've ever taken! (P&Y minimum on Antelope is 67")
Not that the score means anything in the grand scheme of such a great hunt and beautiful animal but I thought that was pretty neat to find out, and a bonus.
I know a couple peopple asked me what he scores and until today I had not measured. I stopped home from lunch as my package arrived from WY and after getting the meat in the freezer I put a tape to him......
I printed off the P&Y scoring sheet and took my time measuring him exactly according to the guidelines and came up with the exact same score all 3 times....69"Gross P&Y with only 1/2" deduction side to side which makes him a 68 4/8" Net score.
Not sure if most Pronghorn Antelope are this symmetrical but he's almost identical side to side with 1/4" difference in total mass, and 1/4" difference on one prong.
Lengths and most mass measurements are identical.
So at 68 4/8" Net he is the first official Pope & Young animal I've ever taken! (P&Y minimum on Antelope is 67")
Not that the score means anything in the grand scheme of such a great hunt and beautiful animal but I thought that was pretty neat to find out, and a bonus.
09-19-2006 | 12:16 PM
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RE: ** Wyoming Antelope Trip results......**
Matt, Congratulations to you and Frank both. Very nice pictures. I still have the pictures you took down in WV of some of our deer. Troy was looking over you guys and saw to it that your trip was memorable. Congrats again to both of you.
09-19-2006 | 01:12 PM
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RE: ** Wyoming Antelope Trip results......**
Troy was looking over you guys and saw to it that your trip was memorable
I know he was.......and is.
Thanks for the congrats, I'll drop you a message later when I get home.