Well, back in Peoria area for now. I was successful on my first ever antelope hunt, and I must say that was by far the HARDEST hunt I have ever been on. Here's a pic of the "goat."
No exaggerating here, I crawled and crawled and crawled after these critters, they are so sharp. They can spot you a couple hundred yards away lifting your head from the knee high grass to range them. After day 2 I was thinking this stuff was for the birds. The ground is so hard, the grass is all prickly, and there are small cacti that you won't see until you put your hand on one, and it hurts bad! One afternoon I crawled to the corner of some fences where many goats seemed to be crossing. It took me 3 hours to get ~1/2 mile!!! The final stalk was 2.5hrs to go 250yds before I shot this fella at 65 yards. Man oh man was this hunt hard. Next trip I'll be wearing protection on my knees, hands, elbows, and maybe forearms. I will also make a ghillie suit with the grass out there to help blend in better. Even my "open country" camo didn't hide me from their 8X eyes.
Been helping out my parents with the grandparent's estate sale, that's just about done and over with for good which will be nice because it's been hell on my Mom. In a few weeks we are heading to Wisconsin to close the cabin up. This weekend is my 10yr high school reunion! Ah, I'm getting old. The following weekend is my Mom's family annual cookout at my Uncle John's house...yeah! The next weekend is a Halloween costume party, then we leave after that to Wisconsin. So October will be fairly busy.
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