Lee M
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Went on a pronghorn hunt the first week of October with my 17 yr old son and another dad and son. It was my sons first outing as he has never shown much interest in hunting. He is very involved in High school lacrosse and his friends and the teenage social scene have been a higher priority. Oh to be a teenager again...
Flew from PA to Denver and drove over the mountains to the plains/rolling sage areas north of Craig, CO. A nice drive going up to around the 12k foot elevation. Once over the top and back down the other side near Craig it is not what many would think of for Colorado. Mostly open with rolling hills of sage. You can count the number of trees on one hand. Although mostly flat it is surprising how you can hide and stalk using the terrain to sneak around.
And best of all the antelope are in good numbers. Not like hunting whitetail in my area of NE PA where it is mature forest with low numbers. I was fortunate to start hunting in the 80's when deer were plentiful.
We headed out on day 1 and the action started quickly. The four of us took parked the truck and took a walk up the first hill. We spotted a group of 8 lopes about 500 years ahead. Unfortunately they also saw us. We sat down and glassed them as they slowly circled around us, crossed over into private property and moved off. About an hour later we walked to another ridge top and noticed they kept circling and crossed back over into the parcel we were on. I sent my friend and son to loop around the other direction and set up where they were headed. We noticed a cattle water trough and assumed that was their plan. My son and I then tried to sneak down to them from behind. They got out ahead of us but we're heading straight towards our friends. We watched them steadily getting closer and closer and we're waiting for a shot. Finally when I thought they were on top of them a shot rang out and the buck dropped. My friends son got his goat. One down, four to go
Flew from PA to Denver and drove over the mountains to the plains/rolling sage areas north of Craig, CO. A nice drive going up to around the 12k foot elevation. Once over the top and back down the other side near Craig it is not what many would think of for Colorado. Mostly open with rolling hills of sage. You can count the number of trees on one hand. Although mostly flat it is surprising how you can hide and stalk using the terrain to sneak around.
And best of all the antelope are in good numbers. Not like hunting whitetail in my area of NE PA where it is mature forest with low numbers. I was fortunate to start hunting in the 80's when deer were plentiful.
We headed out on day 1 and the action started quickly. The four of us took parked the truck and took a walk up the first hill. We spotted a group of 8 lopes about 500 years ahead. Unfortunately they also saw us. We sat down and glassed them as they slowly circled around us, crossed over into private property and moved off. About an hour later we walked to another ridge top and noticed they kept circling and crossed back over into the parcel we were on. I sent my friend and son to loop around the other direction and set up where they were headed. We noticed a cattle water trough and assumed that was their plan. My son and I then tried to sneak down to them from behind. They got out ahead of us but we're heading straight towards our friends. We watched them steadily getting closer and closer and we're waiting for a shot. Finally when I thought they were on top of them a shot rang out and the buck dropped. My friends son got his goat. One down, four to go