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Last year was my oldest son's first pronghorn hunt, and this year it was Nick's turn. He's going to Creighton in Omaha, so I drove up to Albuquerque and met him at the airport there on Thursday night. Quick 4 hours of sleep, and we hit I-25 for the 2 1/2 hour drive up to the hunting area (Lancetkenyon and Zeke-BE know where it is... LOL). We rolled into the property right around 7AM and began seeing pronghorn immediately. We glassed for just a bit upon getting there, but then drove on into the ranch headquarters to say hello to the owner and thank her for letting us hunt there. Like last year, she was gracious and we had a nice chat. She mentioned that there seemed not to be as many pronghorn this year as in past years, but after hearing other reports and seeing Lance & Zeke's reports here we were optimistic. We had already seen one nice buck early in the morning upon getting on the property, and he quickly did what basically ALL others had done last year; As soon as we stopped the pick-up, he and his squad ran out to about 3/4 mile. When I got out to glass them with the 15s, they proceeded to run even further! So anyway, with that in mind I had a brought along a secret weapon. A couple of years ago when I had an archery bull elk tag, I had bought one of those fabric pop-up cow elk decoys. (Her name is Miss September! Got a good laugh at that when I bought the decoy....) I decided that I would try holding her up in front of us to try to get closer to some of those spooky bucks. Well, after visiting with the ranch owner we drove off and quickly spotted another nice buck and some does. He did his usual antelope-thingy and was in the next county in short order, but I hadn't had time to break-out the secret weapon yet. We drove up on a large knoll and glassed all around, and I eventually a nice buck popped up at about 1/2-3/4 of a mile out. I broke out Miss September, and held her up in front of me and started walking directly towards the buck with Nicholas walking right behind me. I walked a steady pace, stopping every 50-75 yards or so and the buck never broke his stare. We proceeded along closing the distance, and when we were at about 500 yards I was thinking it was actually going to maybe work. We are not big on super long distance, with about 400 yards generally being our max shot distance. Well, we kept strolling and eventually got to a nice little tuft of grass on a little mound of dirt. I stopped and check the range-finder, and the buck was still staring at us from just about 350 yards. The 30-06 is zeroed for 200 with 180gr. PSPs, and I told Nick to hold just slightly over it's back. He got on the bi-pod in between Miss September's legs and let it rip! The buck bolted for about 50 yards, then stopped and started to look sick. Within about 5 more seconds he was down. 9:30AM on opening day, and it was all over! Went and got the truck and drove right to him (we had met up with a ranch hand just prior to that and he said it was no problem driving across the pasture....). Anyway, two hours later and we were done cutting it up and enjoying a couple of sandwiches. Overall a GREAT hunt!!! Drove back last night so that Nick could spend the weekend with his mom (really, the other way around... lol). A 36 hour round trip for me, with only 4 hours of sleep but lots of great road-hours with my boy! He was nice enough not to nap it all away, and we had a great time the entire way! Getting done early let's me spend a couple of mornings at the dairy shooting doves before I leave for archery deer in Utah on Tuesday morning! I'm blessed! S.

I do plenty of scouting from my chair. Three programs, Topo, On-X Maps and Google Earth. Once I think I have some good Ideas I get my butt out into the field and physically check the spots. Are you going to complain about this new site for about 5 pages then purchase their product also?

Years ago I had a lot of respect for McCain but now days I despise liberals and their freakish thoughts to have any respect for McCain. The liberals all hated him when he was running against Obama but now that McCain seems to have joined the Obama side they all love him.... RIP Senator, but you are no hero of mine. My brother spent a year in a jungle in VietNam in combat more days than not and the QB of my brothers high school football team was killed by a sniper in Nam....they’re my hero’s.

He was an idiot! I hope he rolls in his grave forever!

13B day 4... I have 2 gas cans and a map for ya. Ed F

So you complain about one site.....then bring attention to another site where people can now easily find it and go get the info? Ever heard of maybe keeping this info to yourself and quit propagating the downward spiral of leaking more info that you would prefer the masses NOT have available from their armchairs?

I must be a hypocrite also. I was forced to vote for McCain for years, even if I had to take a long shower afterwards, to wash off the disgust I felt for doing so.

I saw Dave was the last to post here, I predicted he was in here being an a$$hole. Predicted correctly. You would think someone his age would have a little more maturity than a 14 year old.

Wait, hold on . . . people still post pictures of deer on this site?!?!

Don't forget your migratory bird stamps!

Is it just the angle or do those eye sockets not look symmetrical?

Can't believe this hasn't sold yet!!! Wish I coulsd take it off your hands!!

Oh goody. And I got my muzzleloader all dialed in up to 300 yds... hopefully shoot one at 15, lol

I was up near Happy Jack Wednesday and it was 43 degrees on the highway so the cold is getting them going. Glad I have a bull tag this year. Good luck to all.

He is poster child for term limits. +10000!!!!! I’ve lived in AZ my whole life and can’t list 3 things he’s done for AZ. The VA debacle is exemplary of his senate record. With that said, no sense in kicking a man when he’s down. May he Rest In Peace and condolences to the family.

I have a Remington model 700 ADL with a wood stock. One year I used it on a bear hunt where I was hunting in a steady rain for an entire day. After that hunt I started having a similar issue. After a couple of shots the POI would start wandering pretty drastically. A gunsmith looked at it and determined that the stock warped just enough that the wood of the forestock was in contact with the barrel. He re-floated it by removing some material from the barrel channel and the rifle has been fine ever since. In other words, what 300RUM said...

Well the old man got it done!!!! 64 years old 4 of 7 all spot and stalk. He's a sneaky dude... Couldn't be more proud of him!!!

RIP, and oh thanks Mr Mccain for being the sole reason Obamacare wasn’t repealed. He was in Government “service” way to long. Poster boy for term limits.

Took a 'hunt for heroes' guy to 3bs yesterday. He didn't have a size requirement so he filled pretty quick.

lee elbert 500 w reidhead show low AZ why don't you just stop by the house sometime you silly, mouthy little twat? lee

John McCain's first wife was seriously injured and crippled in an automobile accident. She was confined to a wheelchair for a long time. In order to advance his political aspirations, John divorced her, and married an affluent, and well connected woman, 18 years his junior. Even Ronald Reagan was appalled by what McCain did. Don't lecture me about class, especially towards a man that obviously has none. I didn't say anything negative about him, I just said that he was dead. Do some research on John McCain's history. McCain may have been a Patriot at one point, but that was before he was corrupted by the cesspool of Washington D.C. I feel bad for his family. I have been there.

I certainly respect his service. The issues that I had with the man is although he was a Republican, he could have been a closet Democrat, and when he was sick, I didn't see him being treated at a VA hospital.

If You play fantasy football, You either have to much time on your hands, or are a compulsive gambler.. Have fun See Ya in Vegas Be a man and see Your bookie and bet the real way......LOL..BOB!

My fantasy football is they start playing football again and not make political statements.

Back up. Guaranteed to shoot 1 hole groups.... as long as you only shoot 1 shot lol.