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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    Weather on this trip was crazy. Same day within a mile of one another. First picture is at 10:54am and second picture is 12:51 pm (only two hours difference) Also had 50mph winds on this day
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    Some details on the hunt: 8.5 miles hiked on day one, 6.5 miles on second day, and 3.65 miles hiked on third day (day of the kill). Total Oryx see: 16 (Day one: 8, Day two: 6, Day three: 2) Total Antelope seen: 42 Total mule deer seen: 6 Total elk seen: 1 Total miles driven: 3614 Best...
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    Made it home today about 5pm after dropping off meat at processor as well as the head to be euro mounted. Truck was packed
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    Sunrises and sunsets in the desert were beyond beautiful
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    Ok, oryx is being processed at Fort Sumner Processing (great group of people). Got a chance to see and talk to @Valley1320. Great guy!! Headed back for NC pretty soon.
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    As they lay

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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    My wife will be so excited. Oryx is her favorite.
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    Now to get this beast gutted, and processed up!
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    It started snowing again! NM weather is so bi-polar. I asked a local and he said, if you don’t like the weather, just wait 30 minutes and it will change.
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    I am amazed by the beauty of this animal and this country.
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    But it still is moving a little bit. So, it is laying with its body up hill and the only shot I have is quartering away but directly to the heart. I settle it and I’m rock solid. Shot breaks and down it goes dead as a hammer! It amazes me how much an oryx can take.
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    I give it 20 minutes to let it die and start walking down the canyon. I get level to the meadow where it was laying and it starts to move. It makes move and collapses up against a heavy cedar.
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    I fire and instantly hear the thwack! I look and the oryx is laying on the ground in an abnormal position.
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    My range is 305. I’m good, my scope is cranked all the way up. Just waiting. I’m settled perfectly on front shoulder.
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    2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

    They are bedded down and the largest oryx is in the front. I get prone and sit and wait and wait and now it’s chewing on grass and I’m watching it chew. Cool animal just chewing like nothing is going on.
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