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ANTELOPE IN WYOMING - 2000
At The Hornbuckle Ranch, Douglas, WY
 
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Sept 10, 2000 - Day #3

Dave Brennan Takes A Big Buck
(2:23pm) Ande Rushing and I went out earlier today. So far I've seen a group of 3 bucks, one lone buck, and several does, they were all muy far away. However, 3 does did come through my immediate area. This blind location seems to be better but it is not the happenin' area the spring was that I hunted last trip (this year the spring was dry).  I have the blind wedged in a curve in the reeds near a wide trail through the reeds and it's a little wet in here. Here's the blind. And a closer view shows you the trails behind it that go down into the reeds. 

Green weeds grow along the edge of the reeds and the water but they quickly give way to prairie grass and rolling hills.
I just looked at the pictures of the 3 antelope does I mentioned above and it is a very cool pic. It's real scenic and definitely shows what the high prairie country. I fixed it in wallpaper, just in case you like it. (800x600) (640x480).

A mule deer doe visited me. Here are a 2nd and 3rd pics. She didn't have a clue I was on the planet. A while ago a red fox came through.
Ande called me on the radio. He is in a ranch blind half a mile away in the bottom of the valley and can see lots of antelope moving. Cross your fingers, maybe he will get one. And maybe one might wander up here.
(8:00pm, Back At Camp) There were several antelope in our valley but no bucks came to water. So the last two hours Ande and I searched for water. We found two small ponds downhill from a windmill that is in the next pasture. The water is run off from the windmill. I put my Double Bull blind between the two ponds.
The Wind: the Douglas radio station said the predominant wind speed was 45 mph with gusts of 56. It was brutal.
Dave Brennan's hunt: The wind dropped off a little after 7:00 and Dave saw antelope moving in the distance. A large buck with a harem of ten does appeared a couple hundred yards away. Six bucks in a group came into view and when the larger buck with the harem saw them he charged them and scattered the group. Meanwhile, his harem split into two groups, the largest of which ran to Dave's water hole stand. With the buck group on the run the large buck started to collect his harem and raced up to the does in front of Dave. The buck stopped 25 yards away and Dave put an arrow in it's ribs going forward. A complete pass through. The buck ran 50 yards and went down in the sage brush. Here's Dave Brennan with his fine trophy antelope. 
Dave Brennan and his trophy buck.

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