Goat Hunt 2009, with video, sort of
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So here we are 2009, time for the annual Antelope Hunt, decided to try and do some filming since my wife got a Sony Handycam for her birthday last May. I got an old tripod out of the closet and on October 3rd, 2009 I was going to become just like Jim Shockey, with my friends as the hunters and me as the Guide/Producer/Cameraman. Let me just say this, easier in theory than in reality. We had a great hunt, got a doe 3 nice bucks, all 3 were herd bucks of some kind and had some age to them, none were over 16″, but they were all trophies in our minds.
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The top buck was the first one we got down, he had a nice black face, great horns that came forward instead of straight up. The ivory tips were nice too, Courtney made a great shot and dropped him in one.
The 2nd buck was taken on Sunday Morning, we got 2 bucks out of this large group of antelope we had watched and filmed them the day before but they were just over the fence out of our hunting ground, I was sure they would be back in the morning so we came and it was productive. Check out the broken tips on him.
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I've been watching this buck for almost a month, he looked old, walked with a limp, and definately had one horn that looked shorter than the other. He won't score high on the B&C, but he also wouldn't have made it through the winter, so I'm happy I took him, check out the ivory, and the one horn that is really curled back, giving you the illusion that it is shorter. Made a stalk on him on Sunday morning got to within 200yds and took the front shoulder out in one shot, gave him one more to make sure he was down, seconds later Chief let the hammer down on his, we approached from different angles so we would have the escape covered and it worked perfectly.
Ok back to the filming; we failed to get a kill shot on film, we tried and tried but we had such a hard time getting close that getting them shot was about all we could accomplish, however we made our first “SoDakAdventure.com” Production, and as we get better, we will buy better equipment and shoot better video. Don’t be a critic, just enjoy!!
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