T Bone
Well-known member
This took place a few weeks ago.
Went roadtripping to scout out some pheasant areas. The area had a few leftover 'lope tags so I picked up a couple and headed out. I only had one day to hit it so if I saw a respectable buck it was gonna be in danger.
Found the birds.
Took me a couple hours but found a herd of about 40 lope in some alfalfa stubble about half a mile out. 5 bucks in the group, 4 of them dinks, 1 almost mature buck with a unique backwards swoop to the prong. Used the cover of hay bales to cover the first 300 yards. Still needed a few hundred more to get in rifle range....no cover, no relief. Just 4" alfalfa stubble.
So I do my best impression of a ninja belly crawl while in full sight of the 80 eyeballs. I'm thinking, "this is retarded, this won't work." After a 100 yards I'm thinking "hey, this might work" Another 100 yards, me thinks "I am ninja, I am antelope death."
I get in range and have to wait for over an hour until the buck steps clear. The little rifle cracks, the whole bunch erupts into a sprint. One does a cartwheel.
He's not big like other's posted on this site, but this area isn't much for numbers of lope so I like him just fine. He has a unique backward swoop to the top. The stalk was good fun. Range was a lasered 318 yards. Rifle was the wee little 223 wssm with 55 grn handloads.
I've been back a few times to this area for pheasant and sharpies and havn't seen a single antelope, so I feel better about not passing on him.
Went roadtripping to scout out some pheasant areas. The area had a few leftover 'lope tags so I picked up a couple and headed out. I only had one day to hit it so if I saw a respectable buck it was gonna be in danger.
Found the birds.
Took me a couple hours but found a herd of about 40 lope in some alfalfa stubble about half a mile out. 5 bucks in the group, 4 of them dinks, 1 almost mature buck with a unique backwards swoop to the prong. Used the cover of hay bales to cover the first 300 yards. Still needed a few hundred more to get in rifle range....no cover, no relief. Just 4" alfalfa stubble.
So I do my best impression of a ninja belly crawl while in full sight of the 80 eyeballs. I'm thinking, "this is retarded, this won't work." After a 100 yards I'm thinking "hey, this might work" Another 100 yards, me thinks "I am ninja, I am antelope death."
I get in range and have to wait for over an hour until the buck steps clear. The little rifle cracks, the whole bunch erupts into a sprint. One does a cartwheel.
He's not big like other's posted on this site, but this area isn't much for numbers of lope so I like him just fine. He has a unique backward swoop to the top. The stalk was good fun. Range was a lasered 318 yards. Rifle was the wee little 223 wssm with 55 grn handloads.
I've been back a few times to this area for pheasant and sharpies and havn't seen a single antelope, so I feel better about not passing on him.
