My Alberta Pronghorn

[James M]

Here's my trophy antelope I shot opening morning (yesterday). My dad and I drove to the area the day before season to scout it out. I was a bit nervous as we had never hunted the area before but I had been there for non-hunting related trips. It turned out to be a good decision to hunt there as we saw 22 antelope between 3 pm and dark of the first day, and then somewhere between 40 and 50 on opening morning by 10:00. I looked over several bucks before deciding to kill this one. He was in a bachelor group with 4 or 5 other smaller bucks. It was about a 175 yard shot with my 6.5x55 shooting a 140 grain Nosler Partition. There are definitely bigger antelope out there, but I was happy to take this particular one. Another one off my bucket list!!!

http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo8/urban_samsquanch/IMG_0006_zpsc5695090.jpg

http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo8/urban_samsquanch/IMG_0009_zps5a6ba35f.jpg

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Here are some pics through the spotting scope of other antelope.

http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo8/urban_samsquanch/IMG_1183_zpseb269753.jpg

http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo8/urban_samsquanch/IMG_1198_zps60c5a232.jpg

[James M]

http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo8/urban_samsquanch/IMG_1196_zpsb1189a40.jpg

Here is a giant bull elk bedded down in the prairie. I wasn't anywhere I could use the spotting scope to get a clearer picture so I had to freehand it with my iPhone. I'm certain his rack would fill the box of a pickup. He carried his mass to the tip of each point.

http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo8/urban_samsquanch/IMG_1191_zps4712ee08.jpg

http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo8/urban_samsquanch/IMG_1194_zps2184e58b.png

[Blainer]

Fantastic Buck!
Tall,a real nice trophy
Some great pictures of some other bucks, that 5th picture down is a wide bugger,bet he would score nice.
Great share!

[Amphibious]

Loving the speedgoat. Would love a chance to hunt them. Thanks for sharing!

[kennyg826]

Congrats on a beauty prong

[coach]

Great looking antelope! Congratulations. Definitely a bucket list animal for a lot of us HBC'ers.

[ydouask]

Nice clean Pronghorn James, congratulations. That Elk picture though very fuzzy looks most interesting.

[digger dogger]

Nice goat! Were you near Suffield?

[BCHunterFSJ]

Congratulations! Good job on a nice buck...

[d6dan]

Nice buck. Thanks for sharing your hunt.

[srupp]

Great pronghorn...gets me antsy for my speedgoat hunt in Alberta in 2014..

Thanks for sharing

cheers
Steven

[Blacktail]

Nice goat! Were you near Suffield?

yup nice lope and pics
I was gonna say the same
The pic with the power line looks familiar..................just northwest of me

[6 K]

Ya Id be happy with that too
VERY Nice
Congrats

[Busher]

Congrats dude. Beautiful Buck. I was in Hanna for Geese last week we saw several similar to that Where abouts were you?

[Brez]

Beautiful animal, will make a great mount.! congrats - very envious. The elk ain't so bad either.

[325]

On my bucket list too. Congratulations!

[BiG Boar]

How many years priority did it take you? I'm 2 or 3 years on the way.

Congrat. That's awesome!

[kennyj]

Nice antelope! Sounds like a fun hunt. That does look like a huge elk.
kenny

[Mik]

congrats on your speedgoat. My turn is coming.....next year :)

[Springer]

Nice Antelope James...But still no smile hey.

[barry6.5x55]

Great buck , hunted them many times back in Sask its a fun hunt for sure action packed.
6.5 x 55 are perfect choice so are 270's .

[srupp]

hmmm Bigbore..I have 9 or 10 years......

steven

[Blacktail]

I am priority 6 and haven't got one yet

[James M]

How many years priority did it take you? I'm 2 or 3 years on the way.

Congrat. That's awesome!

11 years. Yes it was near Suffield.

[BiG Boar]

Great, I can look forward to my 43rd birthday present!