Wyo antelope hunt pics

mmwb · Sep 15, 2006

LAST EDITED ON Sep-15-06 AT 02:25PM (MST)[p]Pulled the kids out of school and spent a couple of days playing this week. The animals had been hunted for a couple of days and were quite spooked. The first pic is of a family friend. His first antelope hunt. Nice buck.

My 17 yr old with a good sized doe.

The 14 yr. old with a fawn. Always the sensitive one, she bawled for a minute for having shot a fawn ("I thought it was a doe dad!") and then gutted it out and rushed us back to camp to fry up the back straps.

My 12 yr old. First hunt with her first animal. This little gal worked her butt off, making several long belly crawl stalks to only have them not come together. Never complained. Finally got her self within 150 yds of a spooky herd yesterday morning and took this nice little fawn.

I took this buck--missed by the 12 yr old the day before. Would have smiled for the camera but had just dragged the bloody fool thing about 400 yds up hill to a two track we could get the truck to and was bemoaning the long term effects of my desk job.

The younger kids back at camp doing what little kids do best.

Crawdads like antelope too!

One goat that would have no doubt prefered a bullet than this end...

patience · Sep 15, 2006

Thats awsome you got the kids out there. Looks like they have a good teacher. Good job.

searcher · Sep 15, 2006

Great pictures and an awesome story. Congratulations to you and your kids. Those are the kind of memories that last a lifetime. Much better than a B&C head on the wall. Thats great that you are getting another generation into hunting. Enjoy every minute of it.

Tim

mtmiller · Sep 16, 2006

Those are some great pictures. Congrats to the entire crew.

Cool to see the group enjoying all of the outdoors.

Nice example of a unfriendly wildlife fence. I don't think that critter had many options.

bootspearo · Sep 17, 2006

NMWB I sent you a PM on the rifles your kids were shooting. Thanks, Hugh

twodogs2025 · Sep 18, 2006

Great pics. Way to get the youngsters involved. Looks like everyone had a fine time.

Warren · Sep 18, 2006

Nothing like hunting with the kids...great job.

studpile · Sep 18, 2006

A big 'ol family hunt. That's what it's all about.

NMHUNTNUTT1 · Sep 19, 2006

This post was well worth it , man congrats on a great time! You da MAN and Dad...You got em started just right , thanks for sharing the hunt and taking us to it with the great pics.Again congrats and tell the kids congrats from NM...

MULEYZ · Sep 20, 2006

Great post, Did you hunt Guilds Ranch? MULEYZ

mmwb · Sep 20, 2006

It was the Guild ranch. Great people.

powderhound · Sep 24, 2006

Nice goats you and your family got. I was going to say that the scenery in those pictures looks familiar. I've hunted rabbits and camped by the creek and piedmont many of times with my cousins.

mmwb · Sep 25, 2006

The jackrabbits were thicker than flies! Saw a few cottontails and sage hens as well. I was surprised at how little coyote sign there was. Plenty of old fox dens that are no longer used and saw one fox that hung out in the bottom close to the houses. Adam said the canines used to be thick. I expect that the mange took its toll on them. Happens anytime predator populations aren't managed. In the end it is all the same: dead predators, but regular predator hunting and trapping keeps the population to a healthy level without those years where they peak and wreak havoc on the prey populations before disease knocks the predators down. I'd love to trap that ranch, but too far away for me.