2024 Southwest Oryx trip (NM)

[WNC2500]

This is not the NM that I remember.

 

[WNC2500]

Got a chance to see some amazing countryside and one or two birds!



Lord have mercy, why didn’t I bring a shotgun??

 

[Valley1320]

Good grief someone trying to post another HT thread

 

[WNC2500]

Glassed up a broken horn bull but he ended up solo.
Wind is 45 mph
I’m not in NC anymore! It’s snowing while glassing oryx

 

[WNC2500]

Or attempting to glass oryx

 

[WNC2500]

Just saw a herd of 14 speed goats

 

[WNC2500]

Just stepped around a curve in a canyon and saw three broken horn oryx

 

[Valley1320]

Just stepped around a curve in a canyon and saw three broken horn oryx

Are you being picky?

 

[WNC2500]

O, no sir! I’ll kill one of those for sure. They just took off.

 

[WNC2500]

Glassing this AM

 

[WNC2500]

Beautiful moon

 

[WNC2500]

Oryx glassed from 660 yards

 

[WNC2500]

Making my way off this glassing point, across a canyon and hope to find a shooting angle

 

[kiwi hunter]

Go kill, good luck.

 

[WNC2500]

Ok, I get to where I can see where they are but now I have to find a shooting lane because I’m at the top of the canyon with probably a 45 degree angle.

 

[WNC2500]

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.

 

[WNC2500]

My range is 305. I’m good, my scope is cranked all the way up. Just waiting. I’m settled perfectly on front shoulder.

 

[Dsnow9]

 

[WNC2500]

I fire and instantly hear the thwack! I look and the oryx is laying on the ground in an abnormal position.

 

[WNC2500]

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.