Archery Pronghorn

BUGLEnmIN

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• Jun 8, 2022

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What’s up fellas? Just curious how many guys that drew archery antelope have been scouting already? With this dry weather it’s brutal! The pronghorn in I’ve come across have been in pretty poor shape! My wife drew an early rifle pronghorn tag in eastern New Mexico and they’re just start to get rain. Archery season will be here before we know it! Good luck post scouting pics if you go!

 

ElkHunterNM

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• Jun 20, 2022

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Super dry in the Springer and east to Gladstone. I saw a few nice bucks on public land on
6-19-22.

 

TerynItUp

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• Jun 21, 2022

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We scouted 15 on Sunday. I’ve never been in that country before so wasn’t quite sure what to expect. We found antelope but where we found them is going to be damn tough with a bow. I’ve only hunted antelope once with rifle so my experience is limited and my dad (who has the tag) has never held an antelope tag. We are going to make it out a another time or two before August to see if we can’t figure them out but sure could use some pointers on tactics from anyone willing to share! As of right now, we are planning on hunting water. Lots of the tanks we found were in pairs, one full of water and the other dry. We were thinking of setting up in the dry tank and suffering it out in the sun. Thoughts?

 

HikeHunt61

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• Jun 21, 2022

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I'm no archery hunter- but is the hunt during the rut, or prior? When the bucks get ready for the rut, they really stake out a reasonably small area and defend it pretty good.

 

HikeHunt61

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• Jun 21, 2022

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And antelope look rough this time of year as they move to summer coats (at least they do further north).

 

ElkHunterNM

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• Jun 21, 2022

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For archery, get a black cow decoy and just walk up to bow range. Works every time.

 

BUGLEnmIN

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• Jun 24, 2022

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Nice pics. Came out today this is the best I’ve seen so far just got here too.

 

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BUGLEnmIN

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• Jun 24, 2022

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HikeHunt61 said:

I'm no archery hunter- but is the hunt during the rut, or prior? When the bucks get ready for the rut, they really stake out a reasonably small area and defend it pretty good.

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Right before

 

ElkHunterNM

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• Jun 26, 2022

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Phonescope adapter for my iPhone to my Swarovski spotting scope make taking long way pictures easy.

 

BUGLEnmIN

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• Jun 26, 2022

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ElkHunterNM said:

Phonescope adapter for my iPhone to my Swarovski spotting scope make taking long way pictures easy.

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I don’t have one I freehand it, my buddy bought me one for the wrong phone ??

 

ElkHunterNM

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• Jun 26, 2022

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Call them up and they will exchange it. Great company. I had change the eye pice on my spotting scope and it was a different size. I called them up they mailed me the proper size. I just mailed them back the one that didn’t fit.

 

BUGLEnmIN

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• Jun 27, 2022

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ElkHunterNM said:

Call them up and they will exchange it. Great company. I had change the eye pice on my spotting scope and it was a different size. I called them up they mailed me the proper size. I just mailed them back the one that didn’t fit.

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I will definitely do that! We’ll pretty much got rained out since Saturday but I will be back as soon as the weather breaks! Honestly it doesn’t bother me at all! Bring on the rain! Almost up to 6” in June so far near my elk unit!