For some, hunting vintage is an evolutionary process. It starts as a '''back up'' then maybe a doe rifle or a one-day-a-year rifle. For me, I kinda started there, but not everyone does.
But truly hunting vintage means leaving the modern stuff at home, even (and most especially) when trying...
How many animals have you shot with a ELD-X or SST? I've shot 3 with a ELD-X (granted not a large survey pool) and either personally killed or been right there when 50+ animals have died by a SST (4 alone last year). If you'd line up every animal I'd easily pick out the three killed with the...
….and a big doe antelope dropped like a stone.
I do not know what was worse. Being in the fast cold water, or being so wet in a fast cold wind.
Normally I would be gutting her out fast and out of Grizzly country quickly. Dragging her back to the easy crossing I had used and into my truck...
Good People. Poor People, Eating a lot of Antelope.
The above story about the Old Cowboy feeding his family with his rifle became quite familiar to me when I lived in Wyoming.
I once picked up a young cowboy hitchhiking on a below zero winter day. As was typical he had a canvas duffle bag over...
nothing personal intended here but I feel the FWP has ruined public land hunting in Montana and we need to quit shooting doe and fawn antelope. The populations just don't support the quotas and the issuance of doe fawn tags is kind of in your face saying if you want to play you will pay.
So much...
Third hunt also turned out well. I took my 11-year-old and we had a good experience in Utah. We worked our way into some bugling bulls, pulled in a big one, then about 40+ elk came running into us.
2022 for me. R7 4x4 during archery. It was a fun time and the meat was good but it was not a big buck. I was antelope hunting. Tonight I bought my daughter a r4 whitetail doe tag and me an R3 whitetail doe tag. We are shooting nice old mule deer bucks or going to have the option to take doe WT...
Morning with some lopes, there a ton of antelope running around the ranch , this doe and young’ens was 100yds from my truck this morning, 50 yds off the house
No, I already have a grip load of tags this year but wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity on a Co antelope tag. I think 3 bull tags, 1 cow tag, 1 antelope buck tag, 1deer buck, 1 deer doe tag in 4 different states is probably enough…
Archery Elk: R1,2,3,4,5 Saw some really nice mature bulls/cows, public land.
Rifle Elk: R3,4,5 Did not see a mature bull, public lands.
Had antelope 700 Buck/doe but did not find time to go.
Archery Deer: Same as elk but concentrated efforts on hunting elk.
Rifle Deer: R2,3,4,5 Saw more mature...
All the ones I've shot have been in the vicinity of ag operations, so yeah I assume so. If I could only eat antelope, I'd be happy, but I've had incredibly poor luck in the draws. One buck and one doe in 6 or 7 years of applying. But we had anteloaf last night and it was phenomenal.