Guy Eastman here I'm hunting Antelope in Montana
you know one of the techniques
we like to use here is kind of inventory what we have because you don't know from
year to year antelope are really you know they go up and down fluctuate the
cycles are huge and fast with the antelope and so you don't really know
what you have so rod and I have two tags so what we're doing is just kind of
cruising through this country and glassing everything over and kind of
inventory and what's out here and you'll see what we got
see how big the Bucks are and kind of put a hit list together and any time you
can come in here and get your 1st and 2nd or 1st 2nd or 1st & 3rd you know top
bucks out of here that you're doing pretty good so we're trying to just kind
of get a feel for what the the size of the Bucks are out here and try to put a
hit list together to the top 2 bucks that we want to try to come in and take
seen some pretty good ones haven't we Rod
it looks like it's been a pretty good
year out here a lot of people don't realize antelope grow their horns in the
winter so a lot of it has to do with the winter spring and winter conditions and
it looks like they had a pretty pretty easy one or in good spring one of the
keys we just have to you know kind of get this done because we're getting to
the end of October they're starting to lose their caps we've run across three
or four in the last couple of days a slip cap some nice goats too but
yeah don't really want to shoot want only one side so no there's a big bunch
over there there's a pretty good buck in there it's only got one horn so big
bucks tend to strip them first they'll walk over I watch them do it they'll
walk over to a fence put it in the fence and pop it off because it gets itchy so
usually by Halloween you better get it done first week of November they're
pretty much all stripped well we've got a pretty good idea what's out here rod
let's keep on keepin on
680 right there
hammered him
shoulder shoulder down
that was intense yeah you stalked one just walked right at them, the sun was on our
back and I couldn't really see what was going on I don't think they wanted to
leave this valley it's 27th of October I think yesterday
we looked at I don't know three four hundred antelope and I bet you there was
I looked at 30 40 bucks I bet four or five up have already slipped
cap so it's usually the bigger ones first so I figure he better get one
lets go look at him and see what he is
and rod made a fantastic shot putting the big buck down quickly well folks he
got him dead took us a while took us about 45 minutes hour we kind of
followed him along for in 50 yards one shot through the shoulder and lungs and
here is he's really an old antelope missing a bunch of teeth probably
wouldn't made it through the winter you can tell he's just heavy and bladed and
just an old warrior so that's kind of like to kill out you know out here and save
those young antelope let them grow up Montana's starting to cut some more tags
loose now we got through those bad winters of 2010 and 2011 and these
antelope are really coming back strong especially in the southeast part of
state and we can produce antelope like this now an antelope hunt is one of
my favorite hunts to go on now it's my turn to see if I can seal the deal on a
big Montana buck of my own with lots of nice antelope roaming the prairie this
year it will be interesting to see what we can turn
he's bucks down finally that was quite a stock and I think this fence right here
is there the difference in the territories between those two bucks he's
down and out let's go take a look at him this is a Montana eastern Montana the
antelope are coming back here and we've seen some really good ones you know I
finally got a tag I think I've had five preference points before they finally
gave me another tag so let's go take a look at it
man look at the prongs on that dude
what a buck it does not get any better than that I mean eastern Montana that is
a really nice buck you know we're looking at antelope this is what we're
looking for is that mass and that prong he's got good mass above the digger
which means they had a good you know good winter in spring big diggers good
spring and early summer and the bases are pretty good I mean I know it did dry
out here in the summer but you know he obviously found some some good feed I
can see his prongs turn in man I bet he's got over five inch prongs maybe
almost six inches she really busted off on his tips pretty
good basis just a really nice 80 inch goat I think he's writing that 80 80 81
range I mean just you can't expect any better
remember fair chase is the only way to hunt and take trophy big-game