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It started out with taking the wife to see if she could fill her antelope buck tag. The morning went slow and unsuccessful.
Although i almost decided to make some of my infamous porky stew. But I let him walk
Finally about lunch time we spotted a group that we thought she might be able to get close to. She worked her way toward them and spent 30 minutes or so crawling but 260 yards was the closest she could get because of where they were laying. She doesn't shoot more than 150 so that ended that after they spooked out of there. Around 1:30 she decided to give up and go home. I tried to convince her to continue on and not give up so easily but she wanted to go home. So I dropped her off and took the last kid who still has a mentor tag for a doe. We spent a couple hours and saw 8 bucks and a couple dozen doe but nothing close enough for him either. well on the way home I made a drive to an area where there are usually antelope. I figured maybe I could spot something for the wife for tomorrow. As I;m heading up the road, I see a lone goat in a stubble field. It was quit a ways away but there was a slight hill ther, so I figured I would sneak over the hill and see if anything else was around.
When I came over the hill all i saw was a doe, now I have a doe tag left but didn't really want to fill it yet. She saw me and ran off. I ranged it at over 200 yards. It looked like she was limping slightly. I didn't bring the binoculars so i looked through the scope. When I set down and looked I saw that she had a bloody leg. Someone had shot her in the back leg
Well I couldn't tell how bad it was but I figured I better see if I could get closer and go ahead and fill my doe tag, cause I didn't want to see her running around wounded and be coyote bait. When I tried to move closer she actually ran farther away but stopped at the next hill. I ranged it and it was a little further than I intended to ever try but considering she was hurt I took the shot.
Boy was I ever lucky. A very lucky shot, cause she hardly went anywhere and was down .
When I loaded her up I saw that the leg wound wasn't as bad as I thought.
Oh well I guess i might as well use my tag and be done , so no big deal.
here she is
the only problem was even though my shot put her straight down it was a little low and forward and messed up the front quarters
I didn't find an exit wound but the leg on the opposite side was broke and when I went to gut her the blood was everywhere, so both front quarters were not much good. I did get the rear quarters and backstraps and stuff at least. The front quarters will become dog food so they won't be wasted.
The load was the same as the other antelope I got.
45 cal Knight Disc
110 gr Blackhorn
40 cal 230 gr bullet
I won't mention the range so that no one gets the impression that I'm into some kinda long range shooting contest with Ron
Although i almost decided to make some of my infamous porky stew. But I let him walk
Finally about lunch time we spotted a group that we thought she might be able to get close to. She worked her way toward them and spent 30 minutes or so crawling but 260 yards was the closest she could get because of where they were laying. She doesn't shoot more than 150 so that ended that after they spooked out of there. Around 1:30 she decided to give up and go home. I tried to convince her to continue on and not give up so easily but she wanted to go home. So I dropped her off and took the last kid who still has a mentor tag for a doe. We spent a couple hours and saw 8 bucks and a couple dozen doe but nothing close enough for him either. well on the way home I made a drive to an area where there are usually antelope. I figured maybe I could spot something for the wife for tomorrow. As I;m heading up the road, I see a lone goat in a stubble field. It was quit a ways away but there was a slight hill ther, so I figured I would sneak over the hill and see if anything else was around.
When I came over the hill all i saw was a doe, now I have a doe tag left but didn't really want to fill it yet. She saw me and ran off. I ranged it at over 200 yards. It looked like she was limping slightly. I didn't bring the binoculars so i looked through the scope. When I set down and looked I saw that she had a bloody leg. Someone had shot her in the back leg
Well I couldn't tell how bad it was but I figured I better see if I could get closer and go ahead and fill my doe tag, cause I didn't want to see her running around wounded and be coyote bait. When I tried to move closer she actually ran farther away but stopped at the next hill. I ranged it and it was a little further than I intended to ever try but considering she was hurt I took the shot.
Boy was I ever lucky. A very lucky shot, cause she hardly went anywhere and was down .
When I loaded her up I saw that the leg wound wasn't as bad as I thought.
Oh well I guess i might as well use my tag and be done , so no big deal.
here she is
the only problem was even though my shot put her straight down it was a little low and forward and messed up the front quarters
I didn't find an exit wound but the leg on the opposite side was broke and when I went to gut her the blood was everywhere, so both front quarters were not much good. I did get the rear quarters and backstraps and stuff at least. The front quarters will become dog food so they won't be wasted.
The load was the same as the other antelope I got.
45 cal Knight Disc
110 gr Blackhorn
40 cal 230 gr bullet
I won't mention the range so that no one gets the impression that I'm into some kinda long range shooting contest with Ron