Delw
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Heres 2 that I shot in 3 years. I was lucky to get drawn for one let alone 2 in the same unit 1 year apart.
Unit 9 the first one was shot on the east side of the highway in the pine trees, I saw it on a flat way way away while going home opening morning. Yup had some problems at the shop right after I left so I told april I was going to get some sleep then would be home by 9am(opening morning) to get them straightend out... Then I would come back up friday night and be home sat. night...
I was a little late I shot my antelope right when the sun came up still made it home by 10:30-11:00am..
I saw a small herd of them out in an opening about 200 yards x 600 yards in the think pines. but they were about a mile away. I drove up to a spot I could pull over and darted through pine trees to get close enough. crawled on my belly for a while. (it was also opening day for muzzy bull elk) seems I kicked out a big elk and a guy shot it right behind me.... the antelope that I saw was biigger than the one I shot, he was standing up about 400 yards broadside. I was using a 243 with a 24x leupold and a harris bypod. I set the bypod down and couldnt see due to the tall grass. when I put the gun barrel up on a small pine tree and found the antelope he looked smaller and was 700+ yards away. I was thinking it was the same animal but the distance just made it look smaller. I shot hit it in the neck and it dropped like a rock. all the others took off.
As I am walking up to the antelope there was a small gulley and the org one was laying there and got up and ran. he was definatly bigger by about 2-3 inches and had alot more mass. seems the org. one had layed down and the one I shot stood up when I was repostioning my rifle for a better shot. Hell this was my first antelope tag and I was still happy, not as big as I was hoping for but bigger than most I have seen in that unit.... Oh yeah when I was cleaning my antelope the 2 guys that shot the big bullstopped by to let me know they got a big one that I had kicked out while stalking this lope. they said it was in the 350-375 range. kinda funny cause the night before they asked me if I seen any elk and I told them just in the desert areas when I was driving up and have never seen any elk with in 3 miles of this area( they hadnt either and were thinking of moving that afternoon)... I asked them if they had seen and antelope and they laughed and said antelope dont hang in the pines... we were both laughing about that in the AM.
This antelope I shot on the second day of the hunt (2 years later)with a good friend of mine. we glassed lots of antelope but I wanted a perfect heart shaped one. saw some real nice non-typicles and lots of dinks...
( I will type this story later I have to get working and will be back late tonight) I have this hunt on vid also including the piss poor shot and the kill)
Delw
Unit 9 the first one was shot on the east side of the highway in the pine trees, I saw it on a flat way way away while going home opening morning. Yup had some problems at the shop right after I left so I told april I was going to get some sleep then would be home by 9am(opening morning) to get them straightend out... Then I would come back up friday night and be home sat. night...
I was a little late I shot my antelope right when the sun came up still made it home by 10:30-11:00am..
I saw a small herd of them out in an opening about 200 yards x 600 yards in the think pines. but they were about a mile away. I drove up to a spot I could pull over and darted through pine trees to get close enough. crawled on my belly for a while. (it was also opening day for muzzy bull elk) seems I kicked out a big elk and a guy shot it right behind me.... the antelope that I saw was biigger than the one I shot, he was standing up about 400 yards broadside. I was using a 243 with a 24x leupold and a harris bypod. I set the bypod down and couldnt see due to the tall grass. when I put the gun barrel up on a small pine tree and found the antelope he looked smaller and was 700+ yards away. I was thinking it was the same animal but the distance just made it look smaller. I shot hit it in the neck and it dropped like a rock. all the others took off.
As I am walking up to the antelope there was a small gulley and the org one was laying there and got up and ran. he was definatly bigger by about 2-3 inches and had alot more mass. seems the org. one had layed down and the one I shot stood up when I was repostioning my rifle for a better shot. Hell this was my first antelope tag and I was still happy, not as big as I was hoping for but bigger than most I have seen in that unit.... Oh yeah when I was cleaning my antelope the 2 guys that shot the big bullstopped by to let me know they got a big one that I had kicked out while stalking this lope. they said it was in the 350-375 range. kinda funny cause the night before they asked me if I seen any elk and I told them just in the desert areas when I was driving up and have never seen any elk with in 3 miles of this area( they hadnt either and were thinking of moving that afternoon)... I asked them if they had seen and antelope and they laughed and said antelope dont hang in the pines... we were both laughing about that in the AM.
This antelope I shot on the second day of the hunt (2 years later)with a good friend of mine. we glassed lots of antelope but I wanted a perfect heart shaped one. saw some real nice non-typicles and lots of dinks...
( I will type this story later I have to get working and will be back late tonight) I have this hunt on vid also including the piss poor shot and the kill)
Delw
