Shooter Bucks?
Contributors to this thread:Pronghorn
From: m@ironwilloutfitters
24-Jul-24
Drew a limited pronghorn hunt and found some descent bucks... One of them is really interesting. I was able to drive through a small portion of the unit and found these bucks so hope to see them or more like them. Which one would you go after if you can relocate them again this August?
From: m@ironwilloutfitters
24-Jul-24
From: m@ironwilloutfitters
24-Jul-24
From: m@ironwilloutfitters
24-Jul-24
From: m@ironwilloutfitters
24-Jul-24
Here is one of the other bucks.
From: m@ironwilloutfitters
24-Jul-24
Slow internet sorry for all the repeat images.
From: Bou'bound
24-Jul-24
Lot of common genetics in that herd
From: sitO
24-Jul-24
What state? I think I'd keep lookin, especially if it's a "special" tag.
From: VAMtns
24-Jul-24
good luck
From: m@ironwilloutfitters
24-Jul-24
Thanks guys! Definitely going to keep looking. It's a Colorado tag but took a few years of points to draw. Only had an hour to scout and saw 4 bucks with only 2 potential shooters. Hope to see more in the unit before go time.
Can't decide if I should try to relocate the front pitched buck or not. Kind of like the odd looking one lol.
From: huntforever
24-Jul-24
My brother shot one like that in WY in 2018.
From: m@ironwilloutfitters
24-Jul-24
huntforever thats one heck of a buck!
From: molsonarcher
24-Jul-24
I like the melted horn look, but personally I would keep looking around.
From: Corax_latrans
24-Jul-24
On one of my field sites, there was a GORGEOUS buck… His nose and horns were at seemingly exact 120° angles to each other. I called him, the Valentine buck, which (now that I think of it!) is the one time in my life that I have come up with a nickname for an animal before I had shot it. Looking straight on, the curves of his horns were about perfectly heart-shaped. His whole head just had amazing symmetry…
I guess I might change my mind about that droopy-horned buck if I saw him straight on, but if I were thinking in terms of “collecting” a nice, representative specimen, I think I’d pass.
Of course, me bein’ me, I’d probably take the first good, clean shot opportunity I could get. Even though my single biggest regret in my hunting career is tagging out on a nice cow Elk at noon on the opening morning of ML one year when I had planned a 2 week, 4,000 mile round trip expedition….
From: m@ironwilloutfitters
24-Jul-24
huntforever thats one heck of a buck!
From: HDE
24-Jul-24
My definition and your definition of a "shooter" are likely very different when it comes to archery pronghorn. I'd stick the one with multiple pics, I assume it's the same buck?
As far as finding them again, unless something weird happens, they'll still be there in Aug.
From: JohnMC
24-Jul-24
Marty I'd shoot that first one in a heart beat. Killed lots of lopes, but nothing like that.
From: drycreek
24-Jul-24
I’m with John, I have several goats, but that front heavy one would be unique to say the least.
