heat wave's really bad you know you got to be careful you don't want to make a mistake i've
learned that lesson before you crack a shot off at 3 400 yards on a buck and get up to them and go oh uh oh
i mean he's pretty
oh look at the golden eagle above him just above an old needle on the bank
i'm guy eastman we're gonna head to southern colorado for our annual antelope hunt
this year the hunters are going to be myself and our digital subscription hunt winner brent
murphy from lincoln nebraska now we drew brent's name out of that digital subscription base for
eastman's hunting journal and he's the lucky guy this is brent's chance to seek his teeth into a
high quality diy antelope hunt let's head down to southern colorado and see how the hunt turns out
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feel free to wear it tomorrow thanks man thank you hopefully we get a bloody
he's really long and heavy he just doesn't have much for prongs
well buck's got some decent length and decent mass but no prong i mean that's and that's just
a lot of what antelope hunting is you're just covering country and looking at bucks i mean
you have to sort through to find one of those really big bucks or those one in a thousand you have to look
at literally hundreds of bucks a lot of times and so that's what we're doing just covering country
and looking at bucks you can see they're still rutting so every time you find some does you
can look and there's always a buck with them but just keep in mind that just because there's a buck
with the does doesn't mean he's the biggest buck he's the most dominant buck but he may not be the
biggest sometimes some of these satellite bucks can actually be bigger score wise but uh you know
the big buck that's with the does is is a step down and score but he's more aggressive or older
or bigger bodied or stronger or whatnot so keep that in mind you want to always look at look at
all of them thoroughly before you move on there's another group over there see what bucks with them
i think this one by the windmill i've seen before the dang
heat waves are so bad but probably one we should go over and look closer at
i think i saw him the other night when the light was pretty low and he's a good buck
we just spent the morning working up a good buck inventory of the area and just spotted a big
buck he's wide and has flare brit and i move into position to see if we can punch his tag
nice shootin' friend
congratulations thank you thank you that's a nice spot yeah
when i saw him i said you need to get your bad shot that's weird a little pun
how far was the shot 300 300 on the first one yep
congratulations what a buck brian holy smokes look at the prong on that thing yeah that's
what we were looking for yep that's what we saw isn't it when he was looking right at us wow
look at that big long prong heavy bases you know he's probably pushing 16 inches long
they're not a very big target are they
great looking antelope wow congratulations thank you these antelope here a lot of them are like
you know get really good above the prong like this one that's one of the things we noticed
when we saw him he flares out but we could tell that you know he was heavy above the prong too
and that that makes a lot of difference it starts really stacking the score up
when you get these four three and four inch measurements up here instead of three and two
well congratulations man thanks for coming out it's a quick hunt but it was it was a lot of
fun we looked at a lot of bucks well i want to thank you and ike and everyone at eastmans for
providing this time well thank you awesome thank you congratulations you got a fine fine buck there
time is now running short and it's my turn to find a big buck
i think that might be that low prong buck i saw this morning
low prong that's him but heat waves are really bad you know you got to be careful
when you get to midday it's 12 18 right now and when you get to midday these heat waves
can be so bad you don't want to make a mistake i've learned that lesson before you shoot a buck
especially guys who like to shoot long range they get out here want to
crack a shot off at three 400 yards on a buck and get up to them and go oh uh oh because the
heat waves sometimes can make them look twice as big as they really are actually the best thing
to do in the middle of day is go back to camp have a sandwich and come back out once the sun
starts to get in the western sky a little bit and it'll the heat waves will subside and and you can
really judge a buck and you know the exception to that is if you know what the buck is like if
you've seen him in you know the morning or the evening light and judged him up real good and he
he's got some distinguishing features you can tell him apart even in the heat waves you know then
you're okay but to just cruise around and judge bucks in the heat waves is uh a pretty dangerous
endeavor if you're looking for a really big one so we're gonna gonna keep going maybe if we come
back and we want to get a better look at him we'll have to get closer but he's pretty content right
now so we're just gonna let him be and go see if we can find that other big buck we've seen
after some lunch i try my luck in a different part of the hunt unit
it's the final afternoon of my colorado antelope hunt
and my luck has finally turned as i'm able to glass up a nice colorado pronghorn
hot doe there now they're coming this way i'm hoping you know you just watch them
and they do their thing and they get closer and closer and they come in range of view
well we've we've really been covering the country
today and yesterday i think in the last two days we've driven almost 300 miles on two track roads
just looking at bucks looking at more bucks and we've seen everything from freaky to squeaky
and finally we got a glimpse of a buck across this valley and he's got three or four does he looks
really heavy i think he's the best buck we've seen so uh you know the last day to hunt we got
to go home tomorrow so we're going to uh go give it a shot and see if we can get in close to him
it's going to be tough because i've hunted these valleys before and they're just huge they're about
half a mile across maybe even more and a couple miles long and so when they get in here they kind
of feel safe but he's rutting those does real hard and he's running that doe and you know a lot of
times when they run those does ruttin sometimes they'll actually make a big loop and if you're
patient enough they'll actually get closer and come within range sometimes the water is
up above us here there's a tank up there and and if they haven't watered yet today hopefully they
they might be headed that way and we're gonna get up here and get set up and and see what happens
and uh kind of stock in and see if we can get close enough to get a shot he's a he's a really
good buck and he is rutting hard he must have a hot doe there he is really bulldogging her hard
now that was a bonsai stalk right
i just got to tell lindsey i said you know you watch these bucks when they're rutting
real hard like this is sometimes you just be patient watch them and they'll just come
right around full circle right into range and that's what they did we only had to stalk about
80 yards and they just made a circle because those bucks have to run those does to breed them
like i don't know if it's how they bring them into final heat or what but they just ran full circle
320 yards waiting for them to come clear we got a wind pretty brisk wind but it's coming from our
back which i'm surprised they didn't smell it so i didn't have to compensate for that
right on the shoulder that was crazy he just like hopped and fell over the backpack gets him again
the biggest buck we've seen by far right it's hard to judge him but he's he's all there
he's got big prongs like a triangle there he is man he's hiding right behind that yucca bush
jeez look at that buck just a really nice trophy antelope got good mass good diggers
good mass above the digger his horns hooked back just exactly what you would expect
well we hope you enjoyed today's show a little antelope safari out here in southern colorado
with some of our hunt winners and i was the last guy to hunt and was able to finally get
it done right at the last minute so it was a lot of excitement we had a great
couple days out here great weekend and we hope you enjoyed coming along with us
remember fair chase is the only way to hunt and take trophy big game