Well, not an intentional tease... maybe just a little.

I had a ringside seat for an excellent stalk. The buck had been spotted at a distance moving toward a line of willows.
Our stalker moved quickly into position as the doe the buck was following moved past. In my mind it was all over but the shoutin.

The buck, a nice 14 incher, moved slowly forward. As I watched through the 30 power spotting scope, the distance between shooter and antelope was compressed... as it usually will be.

Vance and I thought that any moment a chartreuse fletched shaft would arc across the short space and end the hunt almost before it had begun.

We waited and waited, but no yellow streak came and no startled reaction to a shot from the buck.

At last the buck turned to face our hunter and we figured the jig was up... and in fact it was.

In time we'd meet our nimrod and get the whole story.
What had seemed like a slam dunk close shot of 10 or 15 yards through the scope was in fact more like 30 for the shooter.

The wind, which was all wrong, was blowing the willow cover almost flat. Gusting hard from hunter to quarry. It's a good thing that antelope don't depend on their noses like a whitetail... though in that wind it would have been tough for even a wiley old whitetail buck to sort things out.

So in the end we had a stand off with the buck. Heavy, gusty winds, coupled with a quartering on angle and long shot distance made for a no win situation and our hunter wisely passed on the shot.

A late evening ride showed us more antelope... duh and as we got back up in the mountains, we saw our first moose of the trip... a paddle horn bull.

We closed out the evening at the lodge with a cold Tecate and a few heated hunting stories.

Great storie, to bad no lope was taken.. Charlie if you don't mind could you Please take a pic of the rising Sun in the morning for me as it passes the mountain tops... That last time I saw that was when I was in Korea in the Army back in 1986.

Will do Sal! Also in answer to your earlier question... the antelope rut can usually be expected to be happening around the middle of September... give or take. If the elk are bugling, then the antelope will be doing their thing.

Nate... we'll try to get up and see you this weekend.

HA! I told ya they had Tecate in Wyoming! You fellers get him in a ghillie yet?

As this hits the net, Charlie and our hunter are making their way to the STALK SITE. With a full belly of SQUAW CANDY, 2 bottles of water and a hand full of Jerkey he's prepared to wait this one out.

The wind should be in his favor this morning and with a better lay of the terrain he should be set in about 20 to 30 min.    

We're perched on a bluff above him fitted with a 60x Zeiss BIG EYE , a Cannon 20D with a 300mm lens attached. With any luck we hope to bring the action right into your lap.

So with that friends, You'll all be waitin right beside us.       ............vance

so Vance your the camera man on todays hunt? can we have some pic's....of the stalk.

It's been 30 minutes; anything dead yet?  

OK.... The Bad Boy is moving closer to the arrow he's about 619 yards out from us. The ARROW rests at 275 yards from us   SOOO you guys do the math. I can't down load any photos at the moment for ya, satelite connect is gettin poor hunkered down in these bushes..........vance

That's only 344 yards. Want me to calculate the trajectory for you and send it to your PDA?    I can call the shots via the sat using Terasrv.  

New TWIST....... Some stray does have showed up, so the Bad Boy has LUST in his mind at this moment and is movin off the path to check them out. This could mean the ARROW will need to adjust his spot, he has plenty of cover to work with will he have time  

Your up to the minute update (all the news that is news).

Through use of hand signals we've alerted our hunter to the new position of the buck and he's making needed adjustments.

Looks like the stalk is getting tricky at this point....now back to the studio.  

Just like being there..you are going to spoil all of us  

I guess a direct video feed via a satellite might be asking a bit much  :D    :D    :D

damn station brakes...O sorry I was looking at the real TV.....

As of this writing, the buck and his does have moved away from the position we directed our hunter to and is now feeding (circuitously) BACK toward our man's original hiding place... and ain't that just about right?  

Great, I have a pile of work to get done here today and now I come across this........    
I guess those loans are just going to have to wait - we got action going on!!

:D  I always wanted to hunt with ya Charlie..... Thanks for taking us along this is great....    Terry

This just in from our roving reporter... action intensifies. Camo, clad, crawlers, clash with quarry.... and now for the weather.  :D

OK, Weatherman; how about a nice photo of the weather with an expired Prairie Goat in the foreground and a happy hunter in the background?

Well????

That ain't right, it just ain't right.

I feel like Pavlov's dog and Charlie is ringing the dang bell!