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2019 Wyoming Antelope

Unread postby Mountain Man » Sun Oct 06, 2019 1:07 pm

I drew an antelope tag in one of the limited access units in eastern Wyoming.

On opening morning, I spotted a nice buck, but he was on private and headed toward public. I made a big loop around him but by the time I had made it to the spot I wanted to be at to cut him off, he had doubled back, was still on private and was about ½ mile away. I watched him for a while, but he just stood there and wasn’t going to leave the private.

By now there was a group of 2 hunters about ½ mile east of me also watching that buck. There was another group of 2 hunters about ½ mile southwest of me and another group of 3 hunters about ½ mile south of me. I saw a small herd of several antelope about 1 mile away between 2 of the groups of hunters. I made my way toward them but had no cover or terrain to conceal my approach. They were bedded on a hillside and I continued on to one side of them. When I was a few hundred yards away they got up and ran over a hill. I kept walking to where I last saw them thinking they might have stopped just over the hill.

That’s what they did. I could see them just over the top of the grass and over the hill in front of me. I knelt down and set up my tripod for a rifle rest. I stood up and put the cross hairs on the buck. He was chasing a doe around in small circles. I waited for him to stop and he did, but a couple times there were does and fawns in the way. Eventually he stopped and I shot. He took a few steps and stopped while the other antelope ran away. I thought he was hit by his reaction, but I wasn’t 100% sure, so I shot him again and then he went down. The first shot was a killing shot, but I won’t hesitate to keep shooting until an animal is down. The shot was about 100-150 yards.

He had a normal left horn, but the right horn angled forward. I took some pictures, broke him down, and then packed him back to the truck.

I saw a lot of mule deer does and fawns but no bucks. I also found a nice 4-point mule deer shed.

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On my way to South Dakota, I was following a storm with a rainbow. I could see both ends of the rainbow disappearing into the ground and unfortunately, there was no pot of gold at either end.

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Re: 2019 Wyoming Antelope

Unread postby Jackson Marsh » Sun Oct 06, 2019 1:17 pm

That's a great looking antelope! Congrats! !

Love the picture of the rainbow :dance:
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Unread postby greenhorndave » Sun Oct 06, 2019 1:36 pm

Jackson Marsh wrote:That's a great looking antelope! Congrats! !

Love the picture of the rainbow :dance:

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Unread postby stash59 » Sun Oct 06, 2019 1:53 pm

8-) :clap: :dance:
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Unread postby Jonny » Sun Oct 06, 2019 1:58 pm

Nice job Bryan! :clap:
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Re: 2019 Wyoming Antelope

Unread postby john1984 » Sun Oct 06, 2019 2:44 pm

Nice lookin goat :clap:
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Unread postby backstraps » Sun Oct 06, 2019 3:04 pm

MM sounds like a fun adventure with a great buck to boot!! Great job! Also love the rainbow picture :clap: :clap:
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Unread postby PeteD » Sat Oct 19, 2019 8:00 am

Congrats!
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Re: 2019 Wyoming Antelope

Unread postby The Runt » Tue Oct 22, 2019 2:43 am

great buck, I love it.
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Unread postby muddy » Tue Oct 22, 2019 2:53 am

Good goat , congrats
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Re: 2019 Wyoming Antelope

Unread postby Lockdown » Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:52 am

Nice buck! You are right about shooting until they’re down. A guy only needs to experience that nightmare once to have that driven home. He’s not down until he can’t stand anymore ;) congrats!
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Re: 2019 Wyoming Antelope

Unread postby Dewey » Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:09 am

Congrats :clap:
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Re: 2019 Wyoming Antelope

Unread postby huntinsonovagun » Wed Oct 23, 2019 2:51 pm

Congrats! I’m hoping to head there in 2020 since I didn’t get drawn this year...I’ll have 2 preference point for next year. Been dreaming of this hunt for a while!
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Re: 2019 Wyoming Antelope

Unread postby Reisinger » Wed Oct 23, 2019 10:41 pm

Amazing shot. I hope I'll have a chance to hunt there at some point too. Probably not next year, but maybe the year after that. My 2020 is already largely booked. haha
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Re: 2019 Wyoming Antelope

Unread postby swampyak » Tue Dec 31, 2019 4:29 pm

Great looking buck


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