smokin speedgoat Doc
tell us about the hunt....

NICE!!! Where in TX?

Drum

Wow, Realy good goat there Doc. I hope to get one like that.

Got him east of Texline in 2008. I posted the kill pics back then when I got him. The shot was 200 yards on the money. I used my Hart barreled 270 Ruger with 110 TTSX over H4350. The wind was blowing so hard it took my bullet a little further than I anticipated by about 3". Nonetheless, the bullet hit him just behind the shoulder and he ran about 30 yards and fell down.

I had him mounted on a McKenzie shoulder form but the head was replaced by a Research "heavy-faced Oregon" head. Denny Behn's sculptures for McKenzie are great overall but Mike Frazier's got him beat on the antelope head by far. It's a damn shame someone can't sculp a whole mannikin to my liking that actually looks like the stuff I kill. Behn's shoulder's and necks are near perfect on his antelope. I just think the heads are a little petite unless the buck is young.

Doc: Looks like a wonderful mount to me. In my opinion our Texas panhandle antelope have a smaller face and head than the ones I've killed in Wyoming, I just think they are a little more refined looking in their features. Dr.C

Great hooks.

Doc,

Kudos on the kill!!
That's a very good Antelope!

Don

Now that is a TROPHY!

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Originally posted by doccash:
Doc: Looks like a wonderful mount to me. In my opinion our Texas panhandle antelope have a smaller face and head than the ones I've killed in Wyoming, I just think they are a little more refined looking in their features. Dr.C

I agree for the most part. I've killed a few in WY and their features seemed bulkier overall in the face, even the younger bucks. However, this particular TX buck had a big, wide head on him. Thus, the change out work by the taxidermist.

Thank you all of the kind comments! He is my best pronghorn to date.

That is an exceptional pronghorn.

Congats!

Nice Goat.Good mount job also.Congrats!!!!!

Beautiful goat. Congratulations.

AWESOME mount!! That is one of the best Pronghorn mounts I've ever seen. Congratulations

Doc

Very nice antelope, and a very well done mount.

thanks again everyone. I'm really diggin how it looks.

Looks really good! I'm going to need to get one for the wall one day...

Congrats on getting him home Doc! Two of my pronghorns are from the panhandle.

Bob

Wow! What big hooks you have there! Lets go fishing; for SHARKS!

Alan