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Todays antelope #6940628 10/05/12
Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 871 WY 5 5spd OP Campfire Regular
OP 5spd Campfire Regular 5 Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 871 WY	Up at 4 am, out to spot at 5am, hiked in 1/3 mile & waited for daylight @ 6am-ish & praying I would not spook/jump any Antelope on the way in. Daybreak I hike another 1/4 mile and saying to myself I know that buck is out here with his does and decide to go to the other side of the bottom land/arroyo and closer to I25 thats next to this State land Im on. Sure enough as my noggin breaks over the crest and 300ys in line w/me an antelope is looking down me. DANG...I drop and back up, then belly crawl 30' to the crest...still there, but in my scope its not the 13" Ive been spotting the last month, BUT I never look a gift horse in the mouth and just prayed I would see a buck. It trots into the gully as I took it off safe...Dang it. Now about 3/4 mile off I see 2 orange vests working the fence lines on high ground & say they aint getting it! I get up and cut into the gully trying to get around it & see it in the dark side of the creek bed. I drop & go to shoot & it trots up the other side SO I throw a bark at it like I do to stop a coyote & it stops. BOOM I let the 85g SGKHP bullet fly out of my 6x45 and hear it hit with a hard WHAPPP. Bullet hit a further behind the shoulder as it moved on the shot and it went through the body at an angle and I found the bullet under the hide on his left flank. 78.6 retention. Its 225 yds to him. It trots maybe 20 yards and drops...PERFECT morning and its 648 am. Did I make you cry......boooo hooo, life goes on.

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Re: Todays antelope 5spd #6940684 10/05/12
Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 75 fremont county, wyoming G gomerdog Campfire Greenhorn
gomerdog Campfire Greenhorn G Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 75 fremont county, wyoming	Got any pics?

Re: Todays antelope gomerdog #6940688 10/05/12
Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 2,152 Seminole39 Campfire Regular
Seminole39 Campfire Regular Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 2,152	congrats To play the game, you first gotta have game. - Ike Turner

Re: Todays antelope Seminole39 #6940733 10/05/12
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,506 Lived all over the world H hotsoup Campfire Outfitter
hotsoup Campfire Outfitter H Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,506 Lived all over the world	congrats. antelope is delicious table fare.

Re: Todays antelope hotsoup #6940792 10/05/12
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 17,174 Northern California Hammerdown Campfire Ranger
Hammerdown Campfire Ranger Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 17,174 Northern California	Nice, good for you. Randy NRA Patriot Life Benefactor

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Re: Todays antelope Hammerdown #6941113 10/05/12
Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 19,530 Likes: 1 MAGA B BillyGoatGruff Campfire Ranger
BillyGoatGruff Campfire Ranger B Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 19,530 Likes: 1 MAGA	Congrats on your hunt. Our rifle season starts tomorrow, and I'll be out and after them as well. MAGA

Re: Todays antelope 5spd #6941135 10/05/12
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 24,644 Midwest SKane Campfire Ranger
SKane Campfire Ranger Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 24,644 Midwest	Nice! Congrats! WWP53D

Re: Todays antelope BillyGoatGruff #6941139 10/05/12
Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 5,513 SoCal EricM Campfire Tracker
EricM Campfire Tracker Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 5,513 SoCal	Nice 'lope!!

Re: Todays antelope EricM #6941239 10/05/12
Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,303 G Greenbrier Campfire Regular
Greenbrier Campfire Regular G Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,303	Good job.

Re: Todays antelope Greenbrier #6941246 10/05/12
Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 5,087 Northwest Iowa T trouthunterdj Campfire Tracker
trouthunterdj Campfire Tracker T Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 5,087 Northwest Iowa	Congrats ddj Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau The best part of hunting and fishing was the thinking about going and the talking about it after you got back. - Robert Ruark

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Re: Todays antelope trouthunterdj #6941597 10/05/12
Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 441 OK 8 8nbait Campfire Member
8nbait Campfire Member 8 Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 441 OK	Good job on the goat, I am heading out next friday for a three week antelope, mule deer, rainbow trout trip...I can't wait. Thans for sharing, gary

Re: Todays antelope 8nbait #6942231 10/05/12
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 8,200 Calgary Alberta, Canada AB2506 Campfire Outfitter
AB2506 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 8,200 Calgary Alberta, Canada	Congrats!

Re: Todays antelope AB2506 #6943104 10/06/12
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,216 Boise, ID tominboise Campfire Tracker
tominboise Campfire Tracker Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,216 Boise, ID	Great story. Way to stay with it and close the deal.... Regards, Tom

Re: Todays antelope tominboise #6943178 10/06/12
Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 40 West Tx T TX_bigbore Campfire Greenhorn
TX_bigbore Campfire Greenhorn T Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 40 West Tx	Awesome, nice speed goat.

Re: Todays antelope TX_bigbore #6943977 10/06/12
Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 21,694 Kentucky CrimsonTide Campfire Ranger
CrimsonTide Campfire Ranger Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 21,694 Kentucky	way to go! "The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them." -Master Chief Hershel Davis

Re: Todays antelope CrimsonTide #6944279 10/06/12
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT L laker Campfire Tracker
laker Campfire Tracker L Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,723 Baker, MT	Nice work. Thats some good eating right there

Re: Todays antelope laker #6946526 10/07/12
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 23,319 Oklahoma OrangeOkie Campfire Ranger
OrangeOkie Campfire Ranger Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 23,319 Oklahoma	Did you ever talk to the other two hunters? "All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee

Re: Todays antelope OrangeOkie #6950143 10/08/12
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 1,700 Western, MI J JD338 Campfire Regular
JD338 Campfire Regular J Joined: May 2005 Posts: 1,700 Western, MI	Nice speed goat. What rifle and bullet/load did you use? JD338

Re: Todays antelope OrangeOkie #6950822 10/08/12
Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 871 WY 5 5spd OP Campfire Regular
OP 5spd Campfire Regular 5 Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 871 WY	Originally Posted by OrangeOkie Did you ever talk to the other two hunters? Yes as I was dragging it to the truck they headed to it also. They were from GA with 2 others were in the field about 3/4 mile from me. They just had doe tags as well. They got there after I did and saw the truck so they did not come into the hunt area where I was and came up the backside...which I surely appreciated since many will just walk in behind someone already out there & spook game. Did I make you cry......boooo hooo, life goes on.

Re: Todays antelope JD338 #6950846 10/08/12
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OP 5spd Campfire Regular 5 Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 871 WY	Originally Posted by JD338 Nice speed goat. What rifle and bullet/load did you use? JD338 Its a Savage FP10 that started off as .223 when I bought it new in 1985. I decided to build a 6x45 off it as I have 20K .223 brass so the neck up is simple to 6mm. Sits in the original stock. I put a 24" McGowan SS select 1/10" twist BBL on it. Trigger is a Basix Savage #2 set at 1.5 lbs. Scope is a 27 yr old BSA Platnum 6-24 target scope. Its a perfect combo and all my dial ups to 700 yards are exact. My antelope load is the Sierra 85g GKHP bullet in front of 24.4g of H335. Did I make you cry......boooo hooo, life goes on.

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