MT Pronghorn

[Pete the Pilot]

Howdy to all,
Just back home to TX from a week of hunting and family visit time up
in Eastern MT.
Got our pheasant limits. My brothers female lab has turned into a
really good bird dog. On one day a couple birds shot down across a
creek. The lab swimming back across with a mouth full of Pheasant was
an impressive sight to see.
Also made some time for a Pronghorn Antelope hunt and after a couple
of clean misses I finally connected on a nice 14" buck. This was my
first Pronghorn. The size difference from Mule deer and Elk to
Pronghorn takes a bit of extra attention in the "aim and squeeze" area
of marksmanship.
Pete

[Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers.com]

"Pete the Pilot" <nod...@ATT.BIZ> wrote in message<SNIP>

> The size difference from Mule deer and Elk to
> Pronghorn takes a bit of extra attention in the "aim and squeeze" area
> of marksmanship.
> Pete

LOL, I had the same problem when I was hunting springbok in South Africa. I
made a 437+ yard shot on a blesbok (whitetail sized antelope), one as long
on a blue wildebeest as well. I shot four times and four animals fell. Got
to springbok (slightly smaller than a pronghorn in body size) and I fired
five times before I spined one! They wouldn't stand still so I couldn't
laser range them, it was so wide open that my sense of distance was skewed
and I kept shooting over the top! In my mind, they were the size of a
whitetail and consequently, they looked much further away than what they
were.