hi I'm Guy Eastman your host and this is Eastman's hunting TV on today's episode
we're going on a DIY rifle hunt for trophy antelope bucks we're hunting way
south almost to the New Mexico border in Colorado on the prairies after trophy
antelope bucks let's not waste a time let's get out there and get some hunting
in
let's talk about the the big big eighty seven inch antelope you shot in Colorado
we've hunted down there lots of years lots of years in it you've you've killed
two Boone and Crockets down there yeah would have been three but one of them out of
broken prong still scored like almost 81 with the busted prong it was probably 84
before a broke is prong off I mean their season in Colorado is really short it's
only like four or five days long and it's in October usually the second week
of October you can't get around no they get mud you're done it's just gumbo but
but they can get big bucks but it has to be on a good year that year was coming
out of a three-year drought and it started raining and it rained for I
don't know how long but it was long enough that stuff grew out on the
badlands yeah they get monsoons in southern Colorado that come up from New
Mexico and Arizona and if they get them the right time of year look out it's all
Gulf of Mexico moisture
600 yards
Gosh they are going so damn crazy I wonder where they are gonna end up we're hunting during the
first week of October and antelope rut still going strong
although the rut should be winding down by now the second cycle dough's are
making it hard on these big bucks to keep their territories buck to doe ratio
in here is really high and it's the second week October and these Bucks are
still running really hard but I think there's a lot of competition for the
dozer and heat and the big buck is just having a hard time running all those
smaller bucks off and keep him away from his does so I'm hoping that we can get
up there they've moved over the top on us hoping we ease up there but they're
rutting so hard they're not really paying attention to us and that big
buck will make a loop go give it a shot
see if we can get a shot at him
with the Bucks territories collapsed it creates an all-out war every man for
himself type scenario for the few remaining does yet to be bred these
two big bucks have been on a collision course all morning and it finally comes
to a head near a waterhole where a hot doe has come to drink we may have to
come back in the morning after these two bucks settled down for a closer look
when you see a big one one of those 85 pluses you just know they're big you
don't know if they're 86-88 you know you're really nitpicking but we
knew he was who's big they were in the peak of the rut on the 5th of October
and he had some does four or five does and he what had happened is there's we
had been chasing him trying to get close and bumped him and his does down into
this bottom and there was a bunch of box in that bottom and there was a worse
place he could have win
over there I think they want to go back across around
she faces one to the left left of the two
our failed stock ends up bumping the big buck and his hot doe into the next
Basin over where a pile of smaller bucks are chasing second cycle does
he's a long clear to the right turn that day back left he's underneath the middle
the big buck is struggling hard to keep the smaller bucks away from his does he
knows we're here but at this point we seem to be the
lesser of the two evils
Sam he's the one clear the ride would well just one day
boom I shoot right over his back takes off I was so sick after hunting for two
three days to get even close to him and then I sent one right over the bow of
the boat and into the dirt and watched him run off was I was just completely
devastated and while I was all devastated John's filming goes I think
he's coming back and I look up in an incredible turn of events almost two
hours later the buck and his doe worked their way back down the draw and right
back to within rifle range giving me a much-needed second chance at this
monster
yep
that was crazy holy smokes you've run that doe and
she wanted to be up in this base and he had all those little bucks down there
he's trying to keep her away from and we just held real still we got the Sun our
back so I think he couldn't really see us BAM
second time boom smashed him I think the first time I went right over his back
another antelope in the books let's go take a look at him his tops were
unbelievable that's what I really stacked it on
that separates the men from the boys went under an animal those tops those in
other words the last two circumference --is look at the mass on that dude
Southern Colorado baby and when I measuring me is 16 and 1/8 16 and a
quarter that's 87 inches really deceiving he's still deceiving I have
him on the wall and he's still yeah you look at him
you have to put your hands on it the big Colorado antelope he is heavy and
gnarly he is definitely a nasty nasty old buck a battler of a buck we watched
him fight off two or three other bucks and just a big old buck I don't think
there's any way this buck is is less than 82 inches probably more like the 83
84 inch mark I can't even get my hands around his his bases just huge we're
gonna get any concur of and we're gonna get out of here and on to the next time
so remember fair chase is the only way to hunt and take trophy big game we'll
see you next week right here on Eastman's hunting TV