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Topic Archives => Memorable Hunts => Topic started by: fireman_3311 on September 02, 2007, 01:18:00 AM
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Just rolled in from Douglas, Wyoming, and chasin antelope!!! What a blast!!! Here's a little hint, pretty tired, will fill ya'll in, in a day or two!!!
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Uh Oh, Someone met Mr. Snuffer. Can't wait for the story.
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Looks like Mr.Snuffer got some oxygen rich stuff! :thumbsup:
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Oh boy, this is going to be a good one! Looking forward to the story.
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Well, I gots a few minutes...can get ya started at least...lol. We drove from central MO, to Douglas, Wyoming, to hunt the Hornbuckle Ranch...been in thier family for 4 generations...We hunted a right fair portion of 35,000 acres! 2 ground blinds, and a bunch more elevated blinds, either over water, salt, or both. Big working cattle ranch, so there was plenty of both. Learned real quick, Monday morning, that antelope are a mite skittish!!! I was the only tradshooter, hunting with 7 wheelie's, but I won't hold that against them, one AWESOME bunch of guys!!!Here's a pic of one of the elevated blinds...strange, but they actually worked...lol
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Got a pic of this dandy, while the Rancher was showing us around...
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Sho is awesome country out there...I'm ready to move west!!!!
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:bigsmyl: :campfire: :coffee:
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Way to Go Brad!! Proud of you Bud! Cmon with the rest of the story though. Tell us all about Mr Snuffer and his Antelope adventure.
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Man, that brings back some memories. Was in Wyoming 2 years ago for speed goats and had a blast. I can still smell the sagebrush. That lope ya' got a picture of is a dandy - he'd score real well in P&Y.
Looking forward to more pics.......
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There had better be a DEAD critter at the end of this tease fireman!
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Come on Brad,ya can sleep anytime!! Theres people waitin to hear this!!LOL
BTW ,yer broadhead alignment looks questionable ta me! :D
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The suspense is killin me.
Nice camo job on the arrow
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LeRoy...thanks!!! Mr. Snuffer and his friends had quite the awesome adventure, no doubt!!!
Southpaw...purty sure that's the goat I missed...LOL.
Mickey...there IS, and more than just meself....
kennym...I'm up now!!!! Yup, that bhead hit a little bone, and still did it's job!!!
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OK, here's some more for ya...a pic of the trailer full of gear...
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And some of the guys around camp...
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Here's my opening morning view, from stand #8...a solar well, that ran fresh water most of the day, long as the sun was high enuff...much quieter than a rattlin' windmill, (personally, I prefer the rattlin' windmill)
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Opening day found us getting to our stand a bit late...hard to drive to the far side of 35000 acres in a short trip!!! I dropped the other 3 guys off, and drove on to the farthest stand from camp...23+ miles of ranch road. I had 3 shooters work in behind me, late morning, and fed along a dry creekbed, and bust me at around 50+ yds...not a bad start to the week!!! The rest of the day was spent glassing goats, as far as the Nikons could see, but none came anywhere close...still, it's only the first day!!!! One of the guys did score, on a dandy 12 3/4" buck, from a pit blind this morning!!!
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One reason stand #8 was slow...water everywhere!!! And a pic for you duckwatchers...
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Jackrabbits that were big enuff to jerk the wheel outta yo hand when ya hit em...lol
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And a little sunrise pic (my favorite) starting day #2, in stand #4...I gotta run, will move this along later this evening!!!!
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Congrats on the goat Brad!! That is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.
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Hey..WAKE UP AND GET ON WITH IT!
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C'mon,,,,,,,,,C,mon........
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i just need to win the lottery so i can hunt year around. haven't chased the speed goats since 99' and i am getting the itch again.
let's here the rest of the story and with lot's of pics.... :coffee: :jumper:
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What is it about folks from Missouri dragging out stories? Gotta be something in the water. :coffee:
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Good start but let get on with it. We are dying here!
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Brad you're a tease. Tell these guys the story like you told it to me on the phone.
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Aw come on I am leaving Friday for Douglas I need to get this finished before I leave. :)
Jack
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Jack Denbow, what ranch ya huntin???
Alright, finally got back to the computer...been washin camo, trackin down a bugsuit..blah, blah...Now, where were we...Ahh, yes, morning of the 2nd day, blind #4...
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No water right near the blind, but has been a salt lick since the 30's...Had a beautiful fat doe come in with triplett's, which I guess is quite common out there...but most youngin's don't make it thru the winter. No doe tag yet, so just watched, and learned again, how skittish they are. Went in around noon for a quick bite and back out to the blind. I parked the truck, about a quarter mile away, in a metal, semi circle wind break, that the Rancher had built for the cattle...I shoulda turned it the left, instead of pulling it in on the right...MR. BIG got a couple of hundred yards up the dirt road from me, saw the truck, looked at the blind, and booked south...No doubt he was 15" plus, long cutters, and awesome mass...yea, I was shakin...This happened with a second shooter, and several herds of does and fawns...so no action on day 2...
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Day 3, stand #4, got there extra early...yup, hid the truck better today. Cloudy and misty today, so not many pics this morning...cold too, wind ALWAYS blows in Wyoming! I kept a close eye up the road, where the 2 nice bucks came down yesterday...finally, MR. BIG was headed my way, around 8-830am...he stopped, looked at the wind break, and didn't see the truck this time, and headed towards the salt. I snuck up out of my campstool, had to keep my 6'5" head below the 6' back board on the blind, and did a "Popeye" on him, peeking one eyed between the boards. He was committed to the salt, and came right in, at 10 yrds...SHOULD HAVE shot him walkin in broadside...lesson learned...he neared the salt, circled away, and headed straight in to me...he didn't come lick broadside, like I'd hoped...When he finished, he backed away, turned around quick, and walked DIRECTLY away...I came to full draw, bleated with me mouth, hey, it works on whitetails...He blasted away, quartering, I swung and yea, missed...bad...What a dandy...I sat my shakin self down, thanked God for an awesome morning...and drank more water...lol.
Here's a buck from day 2, one of the other guys got...
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About an hour later, it tried to quit misting, and I did a quick scan around me with the bino's...goats galore, 360 degrees around me, but at a distance! Here's a pic of some buffalo rings...the Ranchers grandpa told him, that back then, there were buff's and wolves...the buffalo would gather the sick, weak, old, and young, inside the herd, and the healthy part of the herd would plod around them, in a circle...even walking a trench into the ground, to keep the wolves at bay!! Prolly saw 10-15 of these thru out the ranch...
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Oh yea, about an hour later....a nice herd...2 shooters, 2 1 1/2 yr. old bucks, 2 does with twins each, had been north of me, 1/2 mile at a big waterhole, and were feeding towards me, up the lush green dry creek bed, that feeds the pond. They eventually fed out in front of me, and one of the little bucks headed towards the salt! His little buddy saw him headed my way, and followed at a full run...the 2 bigger bucks just slowly fed my way, and pretty soon, all 4 were at the salt lick, eatin dirt...and there I was, sittin down....I tried 3 times to get stood up, each time, the stand would sway and creak and rattle, and the 2 bigger bucks would look me right in the eye...Finally, I got caught about halfway up, they looked up, so I just stood on up....scatterin' em like a covey of quail...the 2 bigger bucks, and one yearlin, stopped out about 40 yds, and the one little yearlin at 20...I had me chance at MR. BIG, so I came to full draw, picked that spot, and let Mr. Snuffer fly...I hit forward, about 3 inches, of where I was lookin, and heard a loud CRACK...but could tell right away, that he was hurt bad...he whirled, ran back left, about 40-50 yds, and piled up!!!! My first ever antelope was down!!!
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The snuffer had cracked thru the right shoulder blade....not the flat part, the upright part, that seperated the 2 muscles, on thru the center of the windpipe, and buried deep on the off shoulder, seperating the 2 large round bones, right at the joint...I will be boilin out the blade, and the end of one of those bones today, for a pic!!! Snuffer stopped right inside the hide on the off side!!!!!
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OH yea, a hero pic...the self timer on the new camera works purty good!!!
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Good shootin man, congrats.
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well I'll be darned, the beanstalk from Mo got one :bigsmyl:
Congrats Brad :thumbsup:
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Little graphic, but ya gotta love gaping chest wounds!!!
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Here's a few more pics from the week...Another nice one...taken on thursday.
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A little miss with my Bingham homemade longbow, on a fat doe...shot just under!!!
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Nice walk in cooler for butcherin'
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Nice quarterin shot!!!
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Pick a spot!!!
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Did someone say CUTTERS????
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King of the Mountain....in a few years...lol
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The whole Mo. gang!!! Thanks guys, glad ya had me along!!!
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One last Wyoming sunrise, on our way home!!!
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Top front cowling blew off on the way home...nuttin better'n duct tape!!!
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The Chevy's dashboard computer, that tells ya you have 16 miles worth of fuel, was a wee bit WRONG!!!
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Luckily, we were sitting at the stoplite, and only had a couple hundred yards to pull him in with Chris' DODGE....LOL
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End of story...we'll know in about 2 weeks, but I'm hopin to be booked with this ranch, for the next 3 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mickey...THANKS!!! Was a good hunt...start to finish, good to get the blood up another time...was a time where I wondered about that!!! Can't wait for ontario this next weekend, maybe Mr. Snuffer will make one ROAR for me!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Looks like there were plenty of nice goats around Brad.
I prefer pit blinds myself vs sitting out in the sun and wind all day.
Good luck on the bar next weekend (grumble grumble jealous of retired guys)
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Nice pick, Mick...looks like a little right helical on that arrah...lol. Yea, they had 2 pits, but they were already full..lol, and yea, they produced...one pit filled 3 tags!
I'll be sure to take a few pics in Ontario for ya!! Tell Momma hi for me!!!
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Looks like ya had a blast Brad!! :thumbsup:
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Way to go Brad :clapper: Looks like you had a great trip. Way to show those wheelie guys how it's done. :goldtooth:
Did the Mosquitoes bother you guys as bad as they did us?? And we we not even close to the water.
Tracy
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Great story. Thanks for sharing.
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Good job Brad. I dont think I have ever ate any. Did you fry any tenderloin up yet..are you going to tan the hide?
G
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I really tried to hold back because I wanted to hear the whole story first hand but damn those pictures drew me in. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Sounds like you had a great trip.
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TOO COOL-great job-great shot! ready to go again?
J
Hey maybe we get a fireman hunt goin on?? just invite everybody
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Way to go Brad. We will be hunting the Werner Ranch, it is a little northeast of Douglas. I can't wait, antelope hunting is one of my favorites.
Jack
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ok now Jack we are expecting a story out of you. will hard to beat Bob's buck from a few years ago that you wrote about, but least you can try.
Brad great hunt and thanks for sharing it with us. as always i enjoyed the photos as well.
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Nice Lope there Brad. Gotta love them Snuffers. Now let's add a bear to your list of dead critters next week.
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awsome!! :wavey:
I wonder if a woodsman broadhead would do the same thing or better??
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Originally posted by K.S.TRAPPER:
Way to go Brad :clapper: Looks like you had a great trip. Way to show those wheelie guys how it's done. :goldtooth:
Did the Mosquitoes bother you guys as bad as they did us?? And we we not even close to the water.
Tracy
Only time we noticed skeeters was right at nightfall...but then we live close to the Mo. river, and well, them thar skeeters have landin gear!!!
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Originally posted by geno:
Good job Brad. I dont think I have ever ate any. Did you fry any tenderloin up yet..are you going to tan the hide?
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Geno, yea, had some with fresh caught crappie fillets tonite!!! Hot skillet, little Olive Oil, garlic powder, salt free Cavendar's, and low salt lemon pepper...medium rare, and good as any whitetail loin I've ever had!!! Young buck was nice and tender, fo sho!!! More tomorrow nite!!!
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Jdog, darn tootin'!!! Will know for sure in a week or so, but hopefully we're booked for the next 3 years!!!!
Jack Denbow, good luck to ya out there!!! I believe there are plenty left...lol
FredBear92, check out this thread for more pics!
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=049665
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Congrats Brad! :thumbsup:
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Excellent story, thanks for providing it. I have to get back out west next year and chase some again.
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Very nice indeed...love to go speed goat hunting one of these days.
Can't wait Michigan whitetail will be here soon.
Josh
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Jdog, that sounds good to me!!!!!!
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fireman 3311
Great photo's of your hunt.
Made me feel like I was out there in the sagebrush with ya.
Thanks >> Tom >>
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Way to go fireman and congratulations on a dandy goat! Kinda makes you want to go back for more, huh?! :D
Claudia