three antelope hunts packed into one episode it's a family affair on eastman's hunting tv
so we're looking for a buck that's just the next level up they're in here
so it's just a matter of scanning this area seven inch prongs seven-inch bases and an antelope that
looks like he's got a baseball bat on his head we've been looking for this buck for uh two days
i like to get a little closer
about a buck out there at 16 inches and when he turned he's got over six inch prongs he's
over seven at the base at least somewhere in the low 80s we're pre-scouting here before the
season starts putting together our santa claus christmas list here let's get down the road
hi i'm guy eastman and this is eastman's hunting tv on today's episode we're going to go to
southern colorado on a diy antelope hunt ike and mike and i don't get to hunt together very often
and this could be one of our last times together as my dad's starting to retire so it's going to
be a lot of fun a little camaraderie and a little competition to see who can kill the biggest buck
he looks at you he's huge but from the side they don't look heavy
so hopefully he stays right in here
we're looking for 27-inch prongs 40 inches long oh wait we're talking about antelope well we're looking for
something that's 15 inches long so an antelope looks like he's got a baseball bat on his head
actually you know what we're really looking for we're looking for a bigger buck than mike and guy
that's what we're really looking for and i let them have the
easy one and we're out here and on the moon
partially because usually this is good out here he's got good mass but off the back he's got two
diggers off both horns about that long so they go he's got the main digger out front and then two
diggers directly off the back problem is is this rain last night it's a little muddy a little slick
out here so rather than tear this road up i think we're gonna go find some gravel somewhere and
leave these things alone and maybe come back this afternoon
there's a buck out there popped his head up where you're looking right i mean right now
oh these yeah little bucks okay
mike and i start out the opening day on the opposite end of the hunt area
this one might go book
we got a buck over here that's got a doe that's really
in heat and she has a fawn and he's running around but this one buck is really really
a good buck he's he's high and heavy he got really great prongs maybe guy can uh see if
he can punch his tag on this buck is a truly trophy antelope we'll see what guy can do
They're making a full circle aren't they
we're chasing this buck all morning and uh we had him down this hole with his does and
those stupid little bucks we saw back here ran over and bumped him before we got to him and
he made a big circle now he's going right back to where we saw him first thing this morning so
we'll loop around backtrack and start this process all over again
it's day two mike and i are hoping to relocate a buck that gave us a slip the day before
ike in the meantime may have just located a good buck in his area
coming up to this one spot where the water tank that they have out here for the livestock they
keep them on all year for the antelope as well yeah found this two bucks running around this doe
and this fawn and one buck is a really tall buck and he's got decent diggers good mass he is that
baseball bat on his head buck i was i was talking about earlier did a little stalk on him
he just never gave us a shot and went up over the rise so now we're gonna go see if we can find a
way to get around him and let him come to us i don't like to chase them i'd rather them kind
of feed into us and have an ambush scenario or a spot in stock scenario versus just running around
ragged so we'll see what happens
on the other side of the hunt area i'm trying my own approach
antelope season here in colorado is early this year and so we're kind of the peak of the rut when
normally we're at the end of the rut and these bucks are just traveling moving around looking for
does it's been really tough to actually pinpoint a buck and work him we found this big one he's moved
over here in this area i'm sure he knows this for a reason but it's really flat out here it's
really hard to get close to him i've killed a buck out in this flat before and it's it can be tough
hunting especially if they don't have a hot doe which he doesn't he's searching for does so we're
going to loop around to the other side and hope to cut him off i think i know where he's going
man antelope hunting
nice antelope buck let's go check him out
oh man he sweeps back look at the bases on that buck
gave us a good 350 yard shot straight on hit him right through the boiler room there and
ran over the hill here and piled up but look at the base on that just really heavy heavy buck
pretty good digger but his circumference up here is real heavy it's just just what happens on a
good year you know they had an easy winter what people a lot of people don't realize antelope
grow their horns during the winter and so kind of need the right year to push them up that extra
four to five inches but just a real mature buck you can see how big his head is
diy colorado antelope put another nice one on the wall and some meat in the freezer and
gotta love it i just punched my tag but it's only day two now
and mike and ike are still in pursuit but dad has his sights set on one buck in particular
i don't think that's him that ain't him guy not him i didn't think so
we saw this real heavy buck and made a stalk on him are within 300 and
he isn't the buck we're looking for he's in the same area as that buck we saw while we're
scouting before the season but he just isn't just isn't big enough we'll keep looking he's
going to come in here he's got a water here eventually maybe this evening so that's it
all right well we've been hunting for a couple days here and found what we feel is a good buck
i mean he looks really really heavy on top i mean you won't know won't know until we get closer than
two miles but this is the area we call the moon which has no roads within four miles of each side
and if you look across this thing it's almost completely flat it's extremely hard to
stalk and he's got a doe with him but in our favor over two hours of light left
and he's laying down we're gonna try and pretend to be a fence post and walk along this fence until
we can cross over in the bottom and hopefully that'll get us in that 250 300 yard range
we got that buck that i've been looking for he's over here on this ridge
and we spotted him over here about a quarter mile and if you in my book on hunting antelope i talk
about blockers and this we were able to sneak right up and guys ranged them at like 250 yards
because we walked straight towards this mound of dirt which is a blocker in other words he
can't see through this dirt pound and now we're going to slip up there take guys pack
throw it down i'm going to have a dead rest hopefully at 250 yards
I hope he's the one
above these prong they're that wide it's bladed right there that's a buck i think yep
well that was a great shot dad uh well that definitely showed the buck who was boss
347 yards well that creedmore uh 6.5 savage that gun is a shooter
it doesn't kick very much we've been looking for this buck for uh two days he disappeared on us and
i wasn't going to find this buck i wasn't going to shoot one unless i found one bigger of course but
he really has got the tops he's really heavy up here nice prong we put the tape on him and
he's going to rough in gross maybe 83 83 and a half a great colorado buck do it yourself
now we're going to get him out of here and do some skinning and get back to camp
my brother ike is hunting a heavy horned antelope buck he spotted on the final afternoon of our hunt
let's see if ike can finish the eastman's colorado antelope season three for three
well let's go off the end of this the only only thing that runs faster than
than a regular antelope a wounded one
oh my gosh what a stressful thing i hate seeing animals wounded
i want one shot one kill cleanly i didn't do it this time
broomed off one side guys got his ivories on the other oh
i've killed a lot of good bucks down here in colorado but this one is going to be my best
just remember guys things don't always go as you planned
sometimes things unravel and when it does it unravels really fast keep your composure and
slow down and remember fair chase was the only way to hunt and take trophy big game