size this antelope

Bait O' Eggs · 09-03-2003, 12:41 PM

Here is a picture I took on Monday of an antelope buck laying in the sage. I put the digital camera up to the spotting scope. Buck was laying about 700 yards away. How big is this buck, I am not an expert at sizing antelope but he looked like a dandy to me. Give me your best guess how big he is in antelope size. I took 3 pics of the same buck.

I know with mulies you can get a rough guess on width from the ears, how do you guess with antelope so I know if I ever draw a tag.

[ 09-03-2003, 01:42 PM: Message edited by: Bait O' Eggs ]

Zen Leecher aka Bill W · 09-03-2003, 12:52 PM

how about 13 inches.... and low 70's/upper 60's for measurement.

id. painter · 09-03-2003, 01:38 PM

I killed one that scored 82 1/4 after drying.
It was the # 8 killed in Idaho at the time.
I would guess about the same as above 13-14" and 4 inches on the prong. The circ. looks a little thin. High 60's low 70's. Good guess.
My buck had 16 " with 6" prong and 7" circ. at the base.. When I saw him I instantly knew he was the best Pronghorn I'd ever seen. No question about it. The real book boys stand out like a sore thumb. id. painter

REEL HANDEL · 09-03-2003, 05:00 PM

Hey BOE
Ears are about 9 inches long cant tell to much about this buck from pic. Ihave four on the wall biggest is 15 1/2 Ears ar a good way to judge lenght.

Gun Rod Bow · 09-03-2003, 06:27 PM

Well Roy, I've got a 14.5 on the wall. And that one is way bigger. I'd say more like 15.5-16.

I'm not goat expert, but that's a good 'un.

I also saw a big one this weekend, very similar to that one. In the thick timber at about 60 yds.

KingFisher85 · 09-03-2003, 07:40 PM

Don't know how big...but can find a place for it on the wall :grin:

C-lice · 09-03-2003, 08:15 PM

I'm no expert, but I'd guess he's in the 15" length range. He does not appear to have much for circumference or spread, but nice length. Unless I knew of a specific bigger buck in the area I'd take him and be very happy.

skein · 09-04-2003, 08:19 PM

Is that a black helicopter in that third picture?

Those are pretty neat pictures. I'll have to try that one of these days.

Skein

Bait O' Eggs · 09-05-2003, 06:20 AM

Skein - I have been taking pics thru my spotting scope for years and before I had a digital camera that had a screen on the back that showed me what the camera saw I had a lot of black pics.

If the camera isnt straight with the scope you get black, if it isnt the right distance from the scope you get either black or a very small pic in the middle of a black pic. I have had some success but mostly it didnt work out.

I use to have a 35mm that I could hook up to my discoverer spotting scope but I bent one of the connectors and now have egg shaped threads that dont mate up.

These were the first ones I tried with my new digital camera and they all turned out in some sort of quality.

The screen on the back is key to getting some sort of pic. I wanted to use more power but the heat waves were terrible when looking at the antelope.

Expect to see more animal pics within a circle of black from me

tailchaser · 09-05-2003, 06:23 AM

I would guess he's around 14 1/2-15" in height but lacking in the mass department, so that will hurt his score. Hard to tell about the kickers also from that picture. I'd probably get a closer look at him before I would shoot him but definitely within the range of thinking seriously about filling a tag with.

tc

northriver1 · 09-05-2003, 10:33 AM

Now that I am a seasoned goat hunter with a little success under my belt I would say 13 1/2".

Bubzilla · 09-05-2003, 11:38 PM

Reel Handel is right about using the ears as a judge for length. The gauge I was always taught was that you should assume their ears are approximately eight inches long.

The buck in the photo is fairly long--probably somewhere in the 15" range. He doesn't look to have really exceptional mass, though. I'd say I agree with the 4" prong guess. Overall he'd probably score somewhere in the low 70's.

I saw a buck two years ago in Wyoming that must have been 18" (really small prongs). The thing is, though, they came alomst straight off his head--horizontally. He wasn't in my unit, or I'd have shot him just for the novelty. Really unique head.

Gus Orviston · 09-07-2003, 08:29 AM

I'm with skein, where did you shoot these pics BOE, Area 51? :shocked: I think it is a UFO, and BOE is trying to cover up... :grin: Hey, maybe Roy was meeting up with family and that's he isn't telling what it is? Might explain his vertical limitations, and the webbing between his fingers.

anonymous