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Old September 27, 2009, 02:40 PM   #12
Crankylove
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What is the limit for antelpope in your neck of the woods? What are the regulations for shooting fawns and does? You mention eight animals, how many hunters did this involve?
The hunters in our group all drew Doe/Fawn tags. There were a total of 5 hunting, 4 of those had 2 tags each, 1 had a single tag.

A Doe Antelope in Wyoming, has no black cheek patch, and horns shorter than the ears. Even a young male with short horns and no patch is considered a Doe.

A Female Antelope with a cheek patch, or horns over the ears will qualify it as a Buck even though it is "female".

My family has always strived for the one shot, drops like the hand of god stuck it kill, but anyone who has hunted knows that dosen't always happen. (Thats why its called hunting not killing) Antleope number 3 was unfortunate. I missjudged the wind after stalking them for 2 miles and creeping up on them over a ridge. Instead of hitting the heart/lungs, it hit far back in the thigh/belly skin. So, now we have a wounded speed goat, running flat out in the middle of the herd. We know its hit, and we don't want to lose it, or make it suffer a slow painfull death. So, as soon as it gets clear of other animals in the herd, another shot was taken to try and stop it. We didnt want to be those hunters everybody hates that let their wounded animal get away because it didnt drop right there. That shot, taken off hand, in the wind, on a antelope doing 40-50mph wasn't a great hit, but it stopped the wounded animal from getting away, and allowed us to get close enough to finish it. None of us are proud it took more than one shot, but it did. We weren't just shooting into the herd, or throwing lead in hopes of hitting the wounded one again. We did the best we could to try and prevent a wounded animal from getting away.

It sounds like some of you guys have never, ever, had a bad shot, and thats great, thats the way it should be.
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