We looked for the herd we'd seen in the morning, but couldn't find them. After searching several pastures, our guide finally spotted a lone buck across the fence. We decided to come up on the other side of it and be downwind of it, hopefully before it crossed the ridge that was above it. We drove to where the fence had a gate, went thru it and headed northwest. We left the truck and started stalking with the cow blind. Jeff followed behind with his camera as Jerad, my husband and I crept along to where Jerad thought the antelope would come up (we were on top of the ridge, before getting to the edge). We kept creeping and looking for the buck. We were starting to think he had gone the other way after we'd gotten out of sight (before crossing the fence), when finally Jerad spotted him. He didn't appear to know we were there. We kept creeping along to the northwest until we could get to a place where we could see below the ridge, where he would appear. I got set up several times along the way, but this time, it was for real. There was so much tall grass in the way, I couldn't see while sitting down, so my husband extended the legs on my tripod and I got on my knees to see better to take the shot. When the buck came into view, he stopped and looked up in our direction. I could only see his head, aimed right towards me. He was 161 yards out. I lowered the crosshairs to the neck, squeezed the trigger and heard WHAPP!!! My husband and Jerad said he was DRT! When I stood up, I could see he was folded up where he had stood. I got him with a neckshot that hit his spine and dropped him immediately – he never moved. My husband said he never knew what hit him. It was 6:37 pm when I got him, and I was shooting a Remington 700 CDL .270 Win using Remington Core-Lokt 130 grain soft point. The gun was a joy to shoot and very accurate. Per the guides, my antelope scored 76 B&C.
As a footnote, Jerad, Jeff, my husband and I walked about 6 miles that day, stalking antelope. What a great day it was!
This was my first antelope and it was a very exciting hunt!
There is a guy down the street from me that just got back from a hunt in Wyoming, he got a nice one also.
