dan pickar here
on this eastmans hunting tv episode let's go bow hunting for public land antelope
more small bucks doe doe
and we've been seeing a lot of 10 to 12-inch bucks just not quite what we're looking for but
they're uh they're pretty docile in some of this oil-filled country but not the bucks
we're looking for and not the experience we're looking for so we're going to keep looking and
keep cruising and see if we can find something a little bigger maybe we'll
head up to the high country we know there's some bucks up there so headed to the hills
68 let me just look at him
he's kind of a cool buck he's got ivory like that much ivory on his left horn
but he doesn't really have very good prongs he's probably like 14 inches
13 to 14 but just not very good prongs
well we've looked over a lot of antelope and he's borderline shooter for what's in this area there's
just we haven't been able to find very many big bucks here but this is only oh the second day
this is our first full day of hunting today it's about two o'clock
but we know he's here and we can come back if we want to try him again but
we're going to just keep looking and see if we can find a bigger one
well just kind of crest this rise and a bunch of antelope down here we've been looking over them
for about three or four minutes nothing great in there nothing that we haven't already seen
down in low country we're headed to the high country today to try to find something bigger
man there's a lot of antelope out here though all down below us herd over there big old herd
across so there's definitely a lot of antelope in here but uh not the ones we're looking for really
so we're gonna keep moving just keep covering country and see if we can find something bigger
so we have a buck up here on the hill we're just checking them out real quick
see what he is see if he's worthwhile
so what we've been doing is just covering country uh we're on dirt bikes and whether you want to
use dirt bikes or four wheelers or side by side in this antelope country there's roads and blm
state you know federal ground that is open to motorized use and antelope are all through them so
the more country that you can cover the better odds you have of finding a big buck i don't know
if it's just an off year or the winter was rough on them which i know it was but we just haven't
been finding very many big bucks we're just gonna look over a couple of these here and keep moving
he's got good length i just don't know about his prongs because he's looking straight away now
well these bucks are kind of hanging out up in the draws just they must have some does
up there so we're gonna pack up and buzz up there and see if we can't get a little
closer and see what we're dealing with i don't think they're too spooky but we will find out
all right let's go
too bad we don't have a decoy
so this buck up here is pretty good we're gonna get our stuff they seem pretty calm and we're
gonna buzz over back behind the hill behind them and then sneak around see what happens
all right we're just gonna load our stuff and sneak up over this hill
they're right up here
go left left left left left left
yes that's how you do it are you kidding me
yes he's territorial he's got 30 does with him and i was just i was remembering i think it was
gordon's video and they were calling it an antelope back in the day and he had one of
those elk ink calls and it was like you know the normal you know the antelope alarm call
but man i swear i was probably a kid when i was watching this and he was going like
they came right in they came another 30 yards in
i was just doing it and finally stopped and i settled i felt great felt great and i just
touched it off could not see the arrow and then you could hear like the whop! that's with those
i'm not usually a fan of just fully expandables but check this out i mean it hit him dead center
a little quartering but that that is just went through them i mean that's a big cut diameter i
wouldn't shoot these at elk but antelope or you know goats pigs in hawaii i would shoot him out but
that laid him open and he went like a hundred yards and he ran to the road how often does it
happen they run to the road tim
that's the biggest buck we've seen in wyoming
on this hunt we saw one other buck that's probably just as big um on private but
that's how you do it buddy give me some i'm gonna go find my arrow
that's a buck he's rubbing he's got sap i mean that's what we've been looking for we did well on
this one huh buddy we were all discouraged we're like oh there's just little bucks here looked
over so many little bucks and then we kept the faith and we kept checking new country and bingo
found a big buck we slipped in on him and his 30 does and curiosity killed him i squeaked him in
and made a good shot he went about 100 yards so we're gonna get him taken care of
cleaned up and back in the cooler before it gets too hot i'm just gonna do
a typical quarter like you do on an elk uh gutless method but look at this scent gland
right here this thing is greasy it's oily it's nasty look at that ugh did not cut through that
cut around it the rut's coming up so these things are stinky so that's your tip
to having good antelope meat is don't go hacking through those nasty glands on his rump
and up on his neck and then if you do touch those glands don't touch your meat because that's going
to taint it antelope meat is fantastic if you do it correctly thanks for watching
this week's episode and remember fair chase is the only way to hunt and take trophy big game