Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game First antelope hunt imminent.... advice?

Jeff -

Just go do it. The antelope will be where you find them - they may lay down but they are open country critters. Their defense is their eyes and speed, not burrowing into the brush like deer often do.

For best eating, get the antelope cooled down fast. We take 80 and 100 quart coolers and have found that a skinned antelope will fold into them. We then throw ice on them and button the cooler up. The antelope don't freeze but they do cool down fast.

If you have a pick-up, you can build a skinning rack for cheap - a 2x4 and some pipe. Here's the parts list. The two small boards help keep the pipe from moving around when in the stake holes and keep the pipes more vertical..


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Version 2:. The stake holes are covered so I bolted some 1" square tube to existing holes in the truck bed.