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Hunter Mike antelope hunt 2017 (Pics Added)

Unread postby hunter_mike » Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:31 am

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Going out to Wyoming this week! Meet my decoy, his name is billy.

Season starts tuesday. Sunday is a driving day and Monday is a scouting day.

Hope to upload some pics during the week but we will see! Not sure if I will have any electricity.

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Pics and Story Added 8/20/17

Kill Photo
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Packing out meat and head
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Valley I hunted in
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This is the kind of sign you like to see at your waterhole
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Different water hole
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Long story short, I blew quite a few opportunities at this waterhole, got caught drawing, deflected arrows on sage brush and unfortunately wounded one antelope buck on thursday. My hunting partners helped keep me from going too far down in the dumps after wounding the buck and I made it back out in the blind on friday morning and finally connected! Our group got 2 antelope out of 3 guys. Was a tough hunt.

The plan was to wait the antelope out by sitting a waterhole. The waterhole I sat was a little over a mile from camp as the crow flies. The first day, the antelope were very skittish of the pop up blind so the next 3 days i spent laying on the ground in the sun in a small depression in the ground behind some sagebrush. I was finally able to come to full draw on an antelope buck without getting busted and made a killing shot on friday.


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Unread postby stash59 » Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:32 am

8-) :handgestures-thumbup: :handgestures-fingerscrossed:
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Re: Hunter Mike antelope hunt 2017

Unread postby Dewey » Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:42 am

Good luck Mike. This is a hunt I want to do one of these years. Looking forward to pics. 8-)
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Unread postby Jeff G » Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:49 am

Good luck mike!!! Have an awesome time!!
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Unread postby tbunao » Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:55 am

:dance: good luck! Looking forward to reading the stories
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Unread postby swampyak » Sun Aug 13, 2017 1:10 am

Good luck
Stalking and or decoying out west are very enjoyable hunts
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Unread postby Jackson Marsh » Sun Aug 13, 2017 2:02 am

8-)

Good luck and have fun!
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Unread postby john1984 » Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:35 am

Sounds fun. Good luck!
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Re: Hunter Mike antelope hunt 2017

Unread postby Stanley » Sun Aug 13, 2017 4:11 am

Have fun Mike and stay safe.
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Re: Hunter Mike antelope hunt 2017

Unread postby Lockdown » Sun Aug 13, 2017 4:37 am

Antelope hunting is a blast. Have fun out there hope you kill ole ivory tips!!
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Unread postby BassBoysLLP » Sun Aug 13, 2017 4:39 am

Sounds like fun. 8-)
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Unread postby tgreeno » Sun Aug 13, 2017 9:49 am

Good Luck Mike....Looking forward to following your adventure!
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Unread postby ruttnhrd » Mon Aug 14, 2017 1:47 am

:P good luck! I'll be heading there in October
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Re: Hunter Mike antelope hunt 2017

Unread postby Rich M » Mon Aug 14, 2017 2:26 am

I'll be following this - I leave Sept 27. Hope you have a great trip and get the one you want.

I thought the decoy was a crude photoshop for a "I can't wait to go" kind of post. It looks great!
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Unread postby justin84 » Tue Aug 15, 2017 3:32 am

Good luck!


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