...wind and rain! My future BIL and I headed over to SE Wyoming to chase some pronghorn in circles with other yahoo's in pickup trucks. The HMA we had buck tags for was a bit shy of both bucks and quality, but we did get a couple and had a good time chasing them. Across the way, we also both collected two does a piece, so it was a lot of fun in 2.5 days of hunting.
Here's my future BIL with his first pronghorn.
Here he is again with his first buck! Not a monster, but was aged at 4+ years old by F&G...who did relate to use that this was a bad horn growth year for the area. We were driving down the road when we spotted a herd slowing feeding our way from about 1/5 mile out. We didn't stop, just drove past and got behind a hill and bailed out to take a peak to see if the herd continued our way. During the duck walk/crawl to the crest of the hill, FBIL got a leg cramp so we stopped for a bit while still not knowing where the herd was. Once he got better and we peeked over the hill the herd was about 220yds in front of us, but feeding way. I spotted the buck and called out which one he was and the distance. One shot and he was down and one more to finsih him! BTW, the .277 150gr Core-Lokt works quite well...
The 210gr Partition still works.
If you keep it off of bone it's not to destructive, if you don't...it can get messy. We climbed a hill the second day to try to get away from some of the truck traffic. Once near the top, two bucks spotted us and started moving toward us! When the closed to about 80yds I had a clear head on shot at the one buck, but my FBIL had no opportunity. The bucks were starting to act a bit nervous so I quickly asked if I should shoot and said 'Yep!'. The buck I shot caught the bullet next to his left femur after getting shot in the right shoulder. Needless to say there was lots o' damage inside the critter.
Here's my future BIL with his first pronghorn.
Here he is again with his first buck! Not a monster, but was aged at 4+ years old by F&G...who did relate to use that this was a bad horn growth year for the area. We were driving down the road when we spotted a herd slowing feeding our way from about 1/5 mile out. We didn't stop, just drove past and got behind a hill and bailed out to take a peak to see if the herd continued our way. During the duck walk/crawl to the crest of the hill, FBIL got a leg cramp so we stopped for a bit while still not knowing where the herd was. Once he got better and we peeked over the hill the herd was about 220yds in front of us, but feeding way. I spotted the buck and called out which one he was and the distance. One shot and he was down and one more to finsih him! BTW, the .277 150gr Core-Lokt works quite well...
The 210gr Partition still works.
If you keep it off of bone it's not to destructive, if you don't...it can get messy. We climbed a hill the second day to try to get away from some of the truck traffic. Once near the top, two bucks spotted us and started moving toward us! When the closed to about 80yds I had a clear head on shot at the one buck, but my FBIL had no opportunity. The bucks were starting to act a bit nervous so I quickly asked if I should shoot and said 'Yep!'. The buck I shot caught the bullet next to his left femur after getting shot in the right shoulder. Needless to say there was lots o' damage inside the critter.
