Welcome to Eastman's hunting TV on today's show we join my brother Ike
Eastman on the plains of central Wyoming where they're chasin pronghorn antelope
with a bow and arrow rig.
Six bucks altogether back of the herd the best ones on the right-hand side not quite
what we're looking for but close that one is you know if you gave an opportunity I'd
probably sling a sharp stick at him. A few years back during the Wyoming rifle
season I tagged a great goat in this same area.
Think we'll go to this right here look on the other side I saw a buck laying on the hill not to long ago. Think it's just on the other side.
Hoping we can get around the end of this hill cause those bucks are feeding right up this
draw. I'm hoping we can ambush 'em.
Spot and stalk antelope hunting with a bow in the open sage is probably one of
the most difficult western bow hunts a hunter can take on.
These bucks seem to have Ike a little bit flustered, somehow in the middle of
the commotion he managed to forget to flip his arrow rest up before drawing his bow back.
But there's certainly no shortage of antelope in this unit and Ike presses on
looking for his next shot opportunity.
It isn't long and Ike spots a good buck let's join the stalk and see Ike can
get within bow range of another public land antelope buck.
After a clean miss Ike was able to once again get within bow range only this time
the buck wasn't having any of it. Ike is now forced to look, for yet another opportunity.
The buck is coming up, this draw. He's just kinda feeding along, he kinda knows we're here. But he's not too worried about it.
It's right in the beginning of archery season, and they haven't been messed with at all.
We're gonna go up here and see if it works out. He's a nice buck, great archery buck.
We'll see what happens, as you can tell it's like stalking on the moon.
It's gonna basically, real slow, get up to a point, then he's gonna come up one of these little finger draws.
And, not surprising, but we're kinda surprised how close we are, we'll if it works.
Hopefully I didn't hit him too far back I was worried cause he was kind of
quartering away from us so I aimed just a little farther back than I normally
would. With that kind of shot let's sit back, relax for about an hour he'll go
lay down because he was feeling sick hopefully he'll stay there we can find him.
Ike makes the right call in this situation and decides to wait a few
hours before blood trailing the wounded buck. It's always better not to push the
situation after making a shot you're a little unsure of your chances of
recovery will skyrocket with a little bit of patience and persistence let's
catch up with Ike later on that afternoon as he takes up the blood trail.
So we found this buck he was kind of walking up this draw camera guy Matt and
I were able to sneak in there and you know a buck of this age they're not
extremely smart and they haven't been buggered with or messed with for you
know a whole season and so he kind of just stood there and looked at us and I
was able to get in under 50 yards and put one through him. Thanks for watching
Eastman's hunting TV. 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.