Got up at 4am, drove 4 hours, hunted for 5, drove 4 hours home, butchered and in the freezer. Will be making breakfast sausage in January after we get some pigs to go with it.
Hunting doe Pronghorn in Colorado has been pretty easy all things considered, but this year, with the changes they made, it was a little harder. I have never seen the Pronghorn so skittish. I can only assume that being chased for a week before doe opens made it so. Also, the few idiots that went blasting across the prairie (not on established roads as required) chasing them did not help. Game warden checked our licenses on the way in, and stopped us later and offered us a Pronghorn he had confiscated, but nowhere to be seen when the idiots went cross country.
Anyway, my 14 year old got his with a 500 yard shot using a Mossberg Patriot in .243 with a Burris E1 3-9. I shot mine at 430 with a Ruger American Predator in .243 with a Burris XTRII 2-10.
We rewarded ourselves with a round of sporting clays on Sunday.
Hunting doe Pronghorn in Colorado has been pretty easy all things considered, but this year, with the changes they made, it was a little harder. I have never seen the Pronghorn so skittish. I can only assume that being chased for a week before doe opens made it so. Also, the few idiots that went blasting across the prairie (not on established roads as required) chasing them did not help. Game warden checked our licenses on the way in, and stopped us later and offered us a Pronghorn he had confiscated, but nowhere to be seen when the idiots went cross country.
Anyway, my 14 year old got his with a 500 yard shot using a Mossberg Patriot in .243 with a Burris E1 3-9. I shot mine at 430 with a Ruger American Predator in .243 with a Burris XTRII 2-10.
We rewarded ourselves with a round of sporting clays on Sunday.