Greenhorn
09-11-2002, 09:33 PM
OK.. here is that antelope buck that I've been anxiously awaiting to hunt.
Quite a lope, my favorite that I have taken for sure. I'm not sure how he will score, but I was damn close with my numbers on the Judgeing Freak lopes topic. I will win a case of beer from a friend that bet me he wouldn't score 80 also.. after he watched the video of him on the hoof this summer. He is a tricky one to measure. There is too much possible variability on the length measurement which is also what determines where the mass measurements are taken. I don't think he's my best buck score-wise, but he's a B&C lope and will rank in the top ten all-time taken by bow in MT's P&Y listings. He seems so much bigger to hold than he does when you put a tape on him. He's really a beast and is the coolest freak lope I've ever seen. I really think this is the best trophy animal I've ever taken.
I wasn't happy with the kill, which was my fault. Note where there first arrow hit him in the rear leg. I had to run the sucker all over the countryside to get a second arrow in him. Also note my empty quiver... don't ask! :( Sometimes things don't go as planned and this was one of them.
He was the dominant buck in the area and very aggresive. He came into a Mel Dutton decoy. The lopes were rutting big time. The night before the hunt I slept outside my truck on a cot and watched piles of shooting stars and listened to the lope bucks whistling and chuckling.
http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Rudedog/2002%20FREAK.jpg
<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 09-12-2002 06:03: Message edited by: Greenhorn ]</font>
Quite a lope, my favorite that I have taken for sure. I'm not sure how he will score, but I was damn close with my numbers on the Judgeing Freak lopes topic. I will win a case of beer from a friend that bet me he wouldn't score 80 also.. after he watched the video of him on the hoof this summer. He is a tricky one to measure. There is too much possible variability on the length measurement which is also what determines where the mass measurements are taken. I don't think he's my best buck score-wise, but he's a B&C lope and will rank in the top ten all-time taken by bow in MT's P&Y listings. He seems so much bigger to hold than he does when you put a tape on him. He's really a beast and is the coolest freak lope I've ever seen. I really think this is the best trophy animal I've ever taken.
I wasn't happy with the kill, which was my fault. Note where there first arrow hit him in the rear leg. I had to run the sucker all over the countryside to get a second arrow in him. Also note my empty quiver... don't ask! :( Sometimes things don't go as planned and this was one of them.
He was the dominant buck in the area and very aggresive. He came into a Mel Dutton decoy. The lopes were rutting big time. The night before the hunt I slept outside my truck on a cot and watched piles of shooting stars and listened to the lope bucks whistling and chuckling.
http://www.hunting-pictures.com/members/Rudedog/2002%20FREAK.jpg
<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 09-12-2002 06:03: Message edited by: Greenhorn ]</font>