AntelopeEater
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I am pleased to report that after getting skunked on my first antelope hunt a couple years ago, I was successful opening morning yesterday.
I am changing my username on this site back to AntelopeEater, haha.
I finally got an antelope, and this was also my first successful DIY big game animal hunt without a guide.
If you look back at my post history you will see I posted a thread a couple years ago about my unsuccessful trip, and was concerned I was doing something wrong as I was a newish hunter and had heard and read from numerous sources that antelope were relatively easy to hunt, and a great beginner's big game animal.
With more knowledge and experience, I now feel pretty confident that had I instead had yesterday's tag a couple years ago, I would also have been successful then.
A couple years ago, in that different unit, I and a friend spent 3 whole days searching for antelope there; and never saw a single antelope anywhere in a legal shooting area. There was also very little antelope sign like tracks or droppings in that drier unit to be found, at least in 2023.
Yesterday's hunting area however (which I am not posting the #online, lol) was an antelope paradise.
Seriously, every time I stepped out of the truck and looked around it wasn't hard to find antelope tracks and droppings.
Oh, and anyone could have found lots of antelope just driving through that place yesterday, there were a lot of them everywhere. No glassing needed. I never touched a pair of binos this trip.
I had a "horns shorter than ears tag", so I took a nice doe, but there were plenty of great looking bucks around there.
The "secret" to hunting success is to simply to go to where the animals actually are!
I am changing my username on this site back to AntelopeEater, haha.
I finally got an antelope, and this was also my first successful DIY big game animal hunt without a guide.
If you look back at my post history you will see I posted a thread a couple years ago about my unsuccessful trip, and was concerned I was doing something wrong as I was a newish hunter and had heard and read from numerous sources that antelope were relatively easy to hunt, and a great beginner's big game animal.
With more knowledge and experience, I now feel pretty confident that had I instead had yesterday's tag a couple years ago, I would also have been successful then.
A couple years ago, in that different unit, I and a friend spent 3 whole days searching for antelope there; and never saw a single antelope anywhere in a legal shooting area. There was also very little antelope sign like tracks or droppings in that drier unit to be found, at least in 2023.
Yesterday's hunting area however (which I am not posting the #online, lol) was an antelope paradise.
Seriously, every time I stepped out of the truck and looked around it wasn't hard to find antelope tracks and droppings.
Oh, and anyone could have found lots of antelope just driving through that place yesterday, there were a lot of them everywhere. No glassing needed. I never touched a pair of binos this trip.
I had a "horns shorter than ears tag", so I took a nice doe, but there were plenty of great looking bucks around there.
The "secret" to hunting success is to simply to go to where the animals actually are!
