well we are out here folks scouting or antelope before the season opens and
it's been a good year we've seen a lot of really nice bucks so far already some
reason there is a ton of sunflowers out here so um eight feet tall so that could
add some complexity to the hunt but it seems like the bucks don't want to be in
those sunflowers they want to be out here I think it's going to be good year
we're gonna scout around kind of put a game plan together we have two tags to
fill so we want to kind of scour this area as much as possible to find two
biggest bucks we can last year was tough they didn't get the moisture and I shot
a almost a 17 inch or but he didn't have the mass or the prong this year
they really looks like they put on the the prongs and the mass real well so
stay tuned let's go see what else we can find out here and run a little scouting
mission
I guess what we'll do is we'll go back down this road since they're kind of
angling back that direction the horrible thing is the sun's in our face that
makes it hard on but in the winds blowing which they're kind of used to
but they still try to get out of it just like everything
at least it's opening day and not the last day
if it wasn't for these sunflowers this would be like stalking on the moon
there's two bucks in there one buck's chasing the other buck off
they're really similar in size I can tell which is which
now what this is crazy this is like hunting the Serengeti for animal
what's the first week October and the rut's starting to wind down these
antelope are starting to group up again trying to sort it out here there's
probably six mature bucks but nothing, nothing we're looking for getting
ready to line out and go in these hills once you bump them they always they like
to go up in those hills but if there was something here we wanted would have been
a pretty easy stalk
there's multiple bucks in these bunches now searching for last does that haven't been bred
see him doing his a courting thing that doe is hot right there
off they go good little group antelope there's two bucks in there we're looking
for that just next level up I just wanted to get a little closer look and
make sure that wasn't one of the bucks that we're looking for because this time
of year it's the first of a week of October and that rut is starting to wind
down those antelope bucks territories are broken down now and they're traveling
looking for second cycle does so every one of these pockets with water in
it has a group of antelope so process of elimination eventually we're gonna find
that big heavy buck we saw on the first night before dawn
back at it this afternoon looking for our buck we've spotted a doe about the
same place we kind of left them at they don't see us we're trying to do is sneak
out there to ambush them I don't even know if he's in there but
we'll soon find out
that's not our buck but he's looking, he keeps looking off in the bottom of this
let's go keep going down this way and then we'll go down the main road and go
on the other one that goes to that tank
well we spotted a really big buck earlier in the day on our way back into
camp for lunch and he wasn't in a very good spot for a shot and the wind was
blowing really bad 20 30 mile an hour gust so it wasn't very good for shooting
so we just kind of let him be the clouds have rolled in and actually the wind has
slowed way down it's just a nice calm 4 or 5 mile an hour breeze so it's perfect
first stock we know where the buck is he's down in this little ravine here
with about 4 or 5 does and he's been fighting off a younger buck there's not
much to hide behind so we're just gonna have to keep low and just pop up and
keep easing up over the swell until we can see him and hopefully get set up for
a shot so let's go see what happens
I can't see
just follow by me
he's up there I just saw his horns you can see his heart
sticking up he's messing with those does so if we just get another 20 yards or so
get set up on the buck and hopefully get a shot at him
I hit him that time
he's down he's down
he's down what a heavy buck
there's a storm coming but that buck he didn't know what happened they heard the
shot they swung around and faced into me did like antelope do sometimes they'll
just make a circle and he circled around didn't know what happened and stopped
him trying to figure out the situation I was able to get another shell in get
right on him and hammer him I made that little bucks day I think though a big
bucks and fighting that little buck off all day we had some serious wind all
morning and I don't think I could have made that shot in the wind this morning
so it paid off to wait
there is right there Tyler
let's see what this guy looks like
oh my gosh look at the mass on this buck he is absolutely massive what a awesome
DIY antelope hunt here in southern Colorado well here's the buck it's the
first week October and these bucks are just starting to finish up the rut and
what's happening now is the the territories are starting to collapse and
these big bucks like this one are starting to travel and he's had a rough
rut you can tell he's got everything's busted except this one point I was
afraid he was only 14 inches long but I think on this long horn he's 15 so just
a heck of a antelope and a really fun hunt
seven and a half what's even better look at that before three quarters he's
missing some gross gross he's still 85 85 86 gross
net 83 84 a big storm has rolled through the area overnight and now with the
clock ticking Ike has until sundown to make something happen on a big buck he's
been chasing now for a few hard days in the deep some flowers one decent buck in
there I don't think it's a Gimpy
that makes is a lot of eyeballs
let's get going
that's not him
you see him?
two crazy days in the sunflowers I hit him he ran down here and stopped we run
which was out of our sight we ran over the top of that thing standing there
looking at us awesome awesome on let's go take a look
at him look at that brute look at that brute oh my gosh I shot
ugly and pretty all at the same time he's got a perfect side and a messed up
side I never even saw it always got a messed up eye no wonder he got his butt
kicked these little buggers fight when they fight they fight for keeps
he isn't going to score boone and crockett very well but look how crazy he is what a beautiful buck I
couldn't be more tickled remember fair chase the only way to hunt and take
trophy big game we'll see you next week right here on Eastmans' hunting TV