Howdy, fellow Trad-gangers!
I completed a week of hunting pronghorns in Wyoming with two in the bag, so I thought I would share   :D  
I've never posted pics before, so I'm hoping I have done this correctly.  If not, bear with me...I'm still in-training!

Claudia

Way to go!!!!  

One more pic...

Claudia

What a beautiful antelope, and that smile of yours just makes it better. Way to go!!!    How bout the story? I thought those antelopes  were supposed to be faster than the arrow?

Great hunting, Claudia!

Killdeer  

Congrats on a great hunt!      

Very cool. Those are some awsome critters.

Story please.

Jerry

Thats awesome, not one but two, congratulations. We really need the story to go with those pictures. Thats some beatiful country behind you.

Congratulations, Claudia.  Who did you hunt with? - that is, if you used a guide service..

Tom

great job!!! I've been wanting a doe myself. I think it would make a great rug.

Wow, Claudia that is da-bomb.  It's not everyday day a bowhunter of any kind gets 2 of dem critters.  Doin it with longbow is really somethin.  I'm still tryin for my first Antelope if I could just get Mr. Elk first.  Story! Story! Story!

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats, that is awesome. Just one question, how you get your hair to look that good? When I had hair it never looked like that during or after a hunt. You stylin girl.  

Super job Claudia! How bout the rundown on the whole story?

congrats!!! now the story, pleeeeease!!

Nice!  

awesome Claudia!

Congratulations, Claudia!

Man I can smell the sage just looking at your pics.

Congrats Claudia that's super.      

Thanks, everyone.  Now...for the story!
This was my fifth consecutive season of hunting the Spearhead Ranch, 60 miles NW of Douglas, and of course, I couldn't wait to get there  :D  
This year I had tags for boy and girl 'lopes and a mulie buck.  The goal was to try and kill two respectable antelope and give myself as much time as possible to stalk mule deer.  The main reason for getting a doe tag this year is that I wanted enough meat to make a big batch of italian sausage with my 'lopes, so I figured, "Why not?!"
So, Monday Sept. 5th I get to my blind at a water hole before daylight to begin the vigil.  It was warm...warmer than usual.  That means by 11 am, it was getting downright toasty in there.  However, along came a fat doe and fawn pronghorn to keep me entertained.  After they lounged around the water a bit, I turned my head away for just a second and turned it back to discover a heavy horned buck hooking the doe in the butt to move her out of the way.  He had come from behind the blind, concealing his approach.
I already had the Morrison Cougar in hand with a nocked arrow ready to go.  The buck quartered away at 16 yds; I aimed and released.  The arrow caught him behind the last rib and angled upward (I was in a pit blind and lower than the antelope) severing the aorta and the spine.  He made one leap straight up out of the water and collapsed in a heap.  He died within just a few minutes and the first tag was filled!!!
Day two I returned to the same blind and waited for a doe that was fat and whose fawns were weaned.  At about noon, I got my wish and when a beautiful doe antelope passed in front of my shooting window at 11 yds, I sent another Grizzly tipped carbon on its way.  This arrow entered the chest low behind the right front shoulder and exited higher on the off-side, taking out the lungs before burying into a mound of dirt 10 yds behind her.  She ran a short distance and stopped to look back.  Then, she simply laid down and expired.  Tag number two was filled    

Claudia