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Off To Wyoming
September 3, 2010.
I'll be in Wyoming next week, hunting antelope in Unit 61, one of the fabled Red Desert units.
The antelope hunt I did a couple weeks ago in New Mexico was fun, but being confined to a single ranch was limiting, especially when I realized how few antelope were on the ranch.
Wyoming will be very different. I'll have many, many thousands of acres of public land to hunt, and there will be far more antelope.
And there WILL be big ones there, Boone and Crockett class bucks. If I had the time, and if I were a good enough judge of antelope horns, I'd get a record-book class buck. They're there, it's just a matter of holding out for one.
As it is, I've got about 4 days I can spend shopping for my buck.
To make the B&C all-time book, you need an 82" antelope. To make the Awards book, you need 80".
I'm a sucker for shape on an antelope (love symmetry and nice inward hooks), and I tend to overemphasize length in terms of importance. And, I have a tough time judging mass on antelope -- an all-important factor in trophy quality.
It would take a stroke of sheer luck for me to shoot a B&C animal, but I sure do hope to shoot a nice one, one that's worthy of what will probably be a once-in-a-lifetime hunt for a true trophy antelope.
Weather forecast looks great -- 70 during the day, 40 at night. And rain in the forecast looks minimal, so the roads should be passable.
I checked the zero on my .257 Weatherby last week. I had 2 bullets touching each other, 1.25" high at 100 yards, and felt pretty good about that.
Will load up my truck and hook up the tent trailer over Labor Day weekend, then hit the road.
Should be fun.
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