Emerson Antelope Hunt

Rising at 4am to arrive outside Hartsel, we were pretty tired by the early afternoon. We sat down in a recess a couple of feet lower than the rest of the prairie to scope the landscape with our nautical binoculars, and decided it was a good place for a nap. That was a pretty incredible feeling to be sleeping out under the sun……on land where antelope roam wild and three separate herds of buffalo, yak, and horses graze. Emerson carried his single shot scoped .243, and though he was unable to place his shot (all of which were at 300+ yards), we did roll over after our nap to see an amazing pronghorn buck watching over us some 800 yards away. It was a great day!

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Clearly from the photo, Emerson finally filled his tag on the last day of the season. He swapped out his .243 for my .30 06 and brought down this doe at about 175 yards. I was rather impressed with how quickly he did it. For the record this antelope picture was taken pretty side  up.