Speed goat takes a speed nap

[CNP]

This is my third antelope hunt and definitely the most challenging. The two prior hunts were archery hunts and wow is there ever a difference from mid Sep to mid Oct. I couldn't keep them away from me in the archery season but merely looking in their general direction, from a mile away, was saying to them: run for our lives, real fast and real far

Left home on the 13th to set myself up in the hunting area...….solo and sleeping in truck. Took a walk out into the pasture and three shooters (all over 14") were looking down on me from a knob...150 yards away. They stayed long enough to give me a shot...but tomorrow the season opens.

I though I would be back home for supper on opening day.

It's tough to range on flat land, impossible I might add, a goat that presents itself for fleeting moments at what you think is 500 yards, and is moving further away...but just can't get the rf to lock onto anything...happened a few times.

I was stalking a bruiser and all the while I was thinking "I got this", only to never see him again.

I was running out of steam and living out of the truck for 5 days was taking the fun out of me. For four days I hiked the wilderness exploring, spotting, stalking and generally getting blown.

Called home and told her that I lost my mojo and was coming home a day early...……...goat or no goat.

So I did just that, but as fate would have it I was blessed with a young buck crossing my path at 400 yards, RANGED!!!. It would be the longest shot where I ever took down a game animal.

Oh yeah...it was breezy.

25.06 100GR Speer BTSP 57.7GR RL22

[Red Bullets]

Congrats. Looks like a good eating buck. Nice pics.

Odd how it works sometimes. You wonder if the hunting gods wanted to teach you stamina, patience and having faith or are they just having a good chuckle? A person puts all that time in and then in the last moments when you think all is lost the goat gods herd a young goat over to your bullet. Go figure.

[bagwan]

And the winner is---the guy with the goatee. Congrats R. Nice pics.

[buckbrush]

Congrats, thanks for sharing. Good job on the field photos too!

[colt45]

Congrats, nice looking animal,

[teledogs]

Congratulations!!! And thanks for sharing, I hope to get one some day.

[RZR]

Congrats! Here in lays the problem as to why the lopers get skittish, too many people push them around before the season opens. If people would just sit back before opener and watch from afar and put them to bed and go in in the dark and set up and wait for day break you more than likely would of had a really good shot at getting one of the big ones. We ran into one guy that kept screwing us up on our stocks on lopers. He figured you could just walk out in plain sight of them and get a shot off! The government gave a way too many tags out in the zone you were in the number of hunters out numbered the number of lopers.

[Scott N]

Good job and congrats! I always enjoy reading the stories and seeing the pics of hunts.

[CNP]

Originally Posted by RZR

Congrats! Here in lays the problem as to why the lopers get skittish, too many people push them around before the season opens. If people would just sit back before opener and watch from afar and put them to bed and go in in the dark and set up and wait for day break you more than likely would of had a really good shot at getting one of the big ones. We ran into one guy that kept screwing us up on our stocks on lopers. He figured you could just walk out in plain sight of them and get a shot off! The government gave a way too many tags out in the zone you were in the number of hunters out numbered the number of lopers.

For three mornings I started off in the dark in a blind overseeing a large area. Spotting. I had a way out of the blind to stalk in any direction. At day break every day I could see the dust and procession of pickups a mile away cruising the roads in search of...yeah there were many hunters out there but there are many antelope out there as well. Saw 200+ antelope. It is getting to be a once in a lifetime hunt for many or even unobtainable for some......can't blame guys for not being the most proficient antelope hunters. Lots of guys have never seen a pasture so big you can see your dog run away for a month. I saw one other hunter outside of a pickup.

Antelope and eggs for breakfast...

[KazIce]

Congrats!


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[Lefty-Canuck]

Congrats!

LC

[CDNOutdoorsman]

Congrats, great looking goat, thanks for the pics and story.

[300magman]

Congrats, tough to beat antelope hunting on the prairies for a good time!

[bessiedog]

Hey!! Buddy!!!!

Way to go!!!! Best hunt out there!!

Make sure you bring back a big bunch of sage!!

[Gilly87]

Nice goat sir