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My first pronghorn buck.

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I must say I had no idea what pronghorn hunting was all about until this Friday started.

I drew my first tag ever for pronghorn. (I won't say how many bonus points I didn't have for fear of making people believe the bonus point system doesnt work so well....)

 

I Had some ups and some downs, but hey!, thats just hunting, eh guys?

 

After many days of chasing a nice big black buck and not getting any clear shots. I decided it was time to just let some bullets fly!

 

I watched this guy and another similar buck for about half an hour and while some other does had me pinned down unable to move any closer I watched this guy start to leave the basin and was about to disappear forever I thought.

The Best range I could gather from the rangefinder was a whopping 758 yards.... I know thats quite a poke but I felt comfortable in taking the shot..... needless to say the bullet didn't hit its mark perfectly, as it was a bit high in the neck... (I'll just blame that on the wind in Prescott Valley sound good?) but the buck dropped in his tracks and I have my first antelope! Took it in to the taxidermist today and although he is very short, he is very massive. My buddy and I had guessed him at about 72-73" and he fooled us good, this buck taped out at 80 inches! I couldn't be happier! I'm having him mounted! I am glad to have learned so much about hunting these critters and I am also glad to be done.... my feet are killing me!

 

Since I was hunting all by my lonesome I don't have any nice posed pics .... I had the meat processor snap this one from my cell phone. It will have to do, but it really doesn't show his thickness.

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Thanks for lookin!

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Thats funny I've heard of ground shrinkage but never of a ground growing. The mass on that thing is incredible!! Congrats!

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