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| Pete the Pilot... |
 Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:42 pm |
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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 |
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| Steve at (no spam) OutdoorFrontiers.com... |
| Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:38 pm |
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"Pete the Pilot" <nodakit at (no spam) ATT.BIZ> wrote in message<SNIP>
Quote: 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
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