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As a simple Arkie who has only hunted deer, ducks, and smaller critters around my home state, I’ve always wanted to go on an antelope hunt. How does a fellow go about getting set up to go on a Texas pronghorn hunt?

The easiest way is finding a landowner permit and that’s not necessary easy lol, but it’s doable.

Thanks for the tip. Do these landowner permits get issued through the Texas Game and Fish? I guess they are drawn out in the summer through a lottery system?

Pronghorn meat is very good. You just have to get it on ice quickly.

Your best bet is to google pronghorn huts in the states you would hunt in. Then ask for references and choose one. I am going to CO in early Oct. Two man hunt with guide, lodging and meals a little over $8,000, we will have to buy a non res hunting license when we get there the outfitter provided the landowner antelope tags.

I'll be heading over to Dalhart TX in October for the 3rd time. Booked through Jeremy of Sagebrush hunts who is a member here. The bucks I have taken in the past were some of the best eating game we have ever had.

No Sir, landowners get permits based upon how much land they own and the annual antelope census done by Texas Parks and Wildlife. The landowners can use the permits, sell them, whatever they decide to do with them.

A few years ago I deer hunted just North of Dalhart, Rita Blanca on the Oklahoma side. You couldn't hardly see a deer through the clouds of dust kicked up by herds of antelope. They were thicker than ticks.

How was the deer hunting? I’ve heard of people hunting deer there I’ve just not seen many personally.

Got lucky and found two more permits, looks like my oldest son and daughter-in-law are going goat hunting too. Now if I could just find one more for my youngest son everyone would get to hunt. I’m gonna keep looking.

Hey, man, sorry, just saw this. I saw enough deer to keep it interesting (quite a few mule deer does), but not enough to keep me there. Seriously, I couldn't glass in any direction, at any time, without seeing antelope.

After 2.5 days I packed up and moved further east to Optima. Saw lot of deer there, passed up a number of smallish whitetail bucks but never saw one I wanted to shoot.

No worries Skeen, was all of the area you hunted public land?

Yes, but, it's quite a patchwork of federal and private lands. Really nice to have onX, some other app, or a good map to navigate it.

My dad owned a section just south of there a couple of miles from the state line for a while. The state would offer some landowner tags every two or three years. I kept meaning to get one of the tags, but never did before he sold that place. My dad didn't seem to like them when he owned that place. Evidently antelope love bindweed and would poop the seeds out into his wheat pasture.

Every once in awhile, someone will see an elk or a black bear in that country coming off the caprock to the west of there in New Mexico. When it happens, that gives the farmers at the coffee shop something to talk about for a few months.

Thanks, I might give deer a try too.

Last year. Far north Texas. Land owner tag and hunt.

Nice one Ed!

That’s a great buck!

Good looking Buck!