Arizona Governor's Tag Pronghorn Photos

EliAGrimmett · Jul 18, 2011

Larry Knipp's Arizona Governor's Tag Pronghorn.

He hunted with Eli and Tony Grimmett of Pronghorn Guide Service and Chad Smith of Vaquero Outfitters. Larry took the buck with a one shot kill on the 333rd day of a year long hunt.

The buck's preliminary measurements indicate that it may score around 94-inches. It sports 17-1/2-inch horns with 6-inch prongs and 7-3/4-inch bases.

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maddglasser · Jul 18, 2011

AWESOME buck Eli. I hope you guy's have another great year in 2011. Good luck on the draws.

Travis Scott

ElkSniper · Jul 18, 2011

What a Toad of an antelope! That buck has it all.

ADDICT · Jul 18, 2011

Wow man. Thats as slick as they come. Congrats to you guys and your hunter!

oregonmuley · Jul 18, 2011

Nice - and man I was way off on trying to guess the score on that one!! Guess thats why its nice to have a pro along right

Tagalong173 · Jul 18, 2011

What a monster.

eldorado · Jul 18, 2011

What a toad. That side view says it all. Congrats to Larry and the crew for an incredible trophy.

Eldorado

rmanwill · Jul 19, 2011

Sweet. Love the hight and mass!!!

powellpounder · Jul 19, 2011

monster!

ElkSniper · Jul 19, 2011

Question for Eli.......

How old do you think that buck was?

EliAGrimmett · Jul 20, 2011

His teeth were pearly white. I'd guess 3-1/2 or 4-1/2. If we get a chance we'll send a tooth to Matson's Lab and have it aged.

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grouseslayer · Jul 22, 2011

When the tag holder shoots the buck in July is there a possibility that he could have added a little size or are they all but finished?

predator · Jul 23, 2011

Ah'd thay thomething, but ah thtepped on mah thtonge!!!!

zekers · Jul 23, 2011

Congrats! You guys killed another stud of a buck!

EliAGrimmett · Jul 24, 2011

>When the tag holder shoots the
>buck in July is there
>a possibility that he could
>have added a little size
>or are they all but
>finished?

Most all the bucks are finished growing. At this point, any length they might add (maybe a 1/4-inch at most) will be countered by losing a little mass.

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wybighorn · Jul 30, 2011

Eli,
It seems that the most of us here on MM aren't as good at judging goats as we would like to be. For example: this buck you killed in AZ or when you asked if there were 90 inch goats in Wyoming. Most of us, including me, said no. However, you have proven us wrong. What would you say is the reason why we are under estimating the scores? Do you find that most people can't judge mass? I'm just trying to decide why everyone is off on their guesses. Just wondered what your thoughts were.

EliAGrimmett · Aug 2, 2011

That's a good question. I've given it some thought and I think I have a couple reasons. I guess mis-judging the mass is part of it, but on a much larger scale I think it's just that most hunters haven't seen enough bucks alive and then dead.

We've had the fortune to take photos and videos and guess the scores of these bucks and then find out how big a lot of them actually are - over 400 times. It would be nearly impossible for most hunters who aren't guides or outfitters to ever amass that kind of database and it really helps.

Also, another thing I think is happening, is that most hunters haven't seen very many - if any - 90-inch bucks alive. Without having any frame of reference for what one would look like alive it's difficult to put that big of a number on one when field judging.

Having guided to many bucks of that caliber it's a lot easier for us to say to ourselves, "Hey, this buck looks just like that other 90-incher we killed a few years ago" which would give us a good indication that "this" buck might be a 90-inch buck also.

I'm sure there are a lot of other factors at play within each individual and there bias toward judging, but that's kind of what I think is happening.

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