16" Pronghorn Taken with Double Diamond Outfitters near Medicine Hat Alberta Canada.

[ 10-07-2002, 20:16: Message edited by: tradewinds ]

Great picture,
I have a picture I'd like to put up I'm not sure how. I'm kinda new at this how do you post a picture. Is it something like open a new topic then open a saved pic in the typing area.

Go to http://www.imagestation.com/ register and upload your pictures from your compluter to a Photo Album. Once you get your picture into imagestation you can look around on the page and find the url address. Once you have this you can cute and paste to the Image Button on the Instant UBB Code. Once a member put up some very good instructions on this site. I think it was T. Carr. Maybe if you ask they will repost.

Good luck, sorry I can not explain any better. Sometimes I am not sure how I do it myself

don,

This should be of some help

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Regards,

Terry

Even though we are at the very northmost region of their summer range, good antelope bucks can be found in alberta. I killed a 15" buck last year, and my 3 hunting parteners also all killed a good buck. This year I only had an antelope doe tag, as it takes about 7 years to be drawn for a buck. Terriffic trophy and excelent meat.
What rifle and cartridge did you shoot?

weidmannsheil.

Thomas,

I used an HS Precision 300 Ultramag. 180 gr Scirocco factory loads. We also Hunted Mule Deer and Black Bear in the mountains after the Antelope.

We saw quite a few 13-14 Inch Bucks. It is amazing what a differance a couple inches can make. This wa my first Antelope hunt and when we saw this buck the guide did not even have to tell me to shot. It looked MUCH bigger than the 14". Another member of our party had spoted this Buck the day before opening day. We knew it was the same because of it had a bad limp.

It seems like a Broadhead hit his right leg just above the knee. It was a nasty cut and very infected. The poor animal could not even bend under the fences. All the hair on its back was rubbed off.

We hunted near that Huge British Military Base, we stayed in Jenner, Alberta. Do you happen to know the name of the Militay Base? This buck was crossing back and forth between the Base.

Also do you know how the Duck and Goose Hunting has been this year? First year in 5 that we did not hunt waterfowl. It had been getting worse each year becasue of the drought

Thanks,

Tradewinds

That is a beautiful goat.

Tradewinds: The name of the base is Suffield. It is beautiful to hunt and a portion of the base is being declared a natural area as it is the original grassland prairie of our province. The base was originally used for experimenting with a variety of gases(mustard, etc.) in it's early history. My grandfather was a dentist in the canadian military and served there in WWII. I'm glad you enjoyed our province and got to see some of it. I am biased, but it is a beautiful place. As for goose and duck hunting this year, things are dry, but have had some spectacular hunts this year, mainly setting up in fields. Hunting on water is a little tougher as a lot of the sloughs are dried up and the birds are flying to large bodies.

Mikey, I was hunting in the Swan Hills area some years back (actually killing time waiting for the rig to be ready for pipe laydown, I figured I have the moose tag, I've got a thirty-thirty in the pick-up, why not). We were between House Mountain and Grizzly Mountain. I had been walking the creek bottoms looking for moose when I happened upon some bear tracks. Looked at the size of the tracks, looked at the 30-30, did a little mental calculation, decided that was enough hunting for that day. Honestly, when you get close to them NO rifle seems large enough. - Dan

Tradewinds-Going by the picture and the description of where you hunted I believe the buck you took was one I spotted the saturday before the season opened.I could not find him once the season opened.What day did you take this buck?I stayed at jenner as well and hunted the same lease in the hope of locating the buck again.I guess the reason I could not find him was because you already had him.

The Ducks and geese seem to be a little sparse in the southern half of the province. Basically all resident birds. We have had some STELLAR hunts up near Stettler, shooting fields naturally.
tradewinds, do you use a guide when you hunt birds in alberta? If so who?

Congrat's, super speed goat.

tradewinds,

Great trophy! Congrats on a good hunt!!

Bob

Thomas,

We hunt with Eldon Huff in Standard Alberta. He is primarily a Deer Outfitter. My Hunting Partner has hunted Deer with Eldon. I think he just does the Waterfowl for something to do before Deer season. We had hunted waterfowl from 98 through 2001. Less Birds/water each year. Not to say it was not good hunting even in 2001 we got our limits a couple of days.

Stubblejumper,

I am not sure of the date, but it was the second day of the season. One member of our party also spotted this buck the day before the season opened. He shot another Buck the second morning and I was lucky enough to get this buck early after lunch.

By the way I notice you shoot a 300RUM? If yes what type of Gun? I have an HS Precision Pro Hunter with a 26" Barrel.

I am wanting to work up loads with 200 gr Swift A Frame, Trophy Bonded, North Fork. Have you worked any with these bullets? There is no reloading data on the Trophy Bonded or North Fork.

I plan on starting with RL25. I was thinking to start with 86 gr with the Swift A Frame.

Any feedback will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tradewinds

Tradewinds-Your buck must have crossed into suffield for a couple of days as I wasn't able to find him the first day of the season although I spent most of the day searching for him.The wet conditions certainly didn't help with visability.I shoot a pair of custom 7mmstw's for all my deer,pronghorn and sheep hunting but do use a 300 ultramag for moose and elk.All of my rifles are built on stainless 700 actions that have been trued and lapped.Barrels vary from gun to gun but the ultramag has a 26" pac-nor on it.All are pillar bedded into mcmillan stocks.I have taken two elk and two bull moose with 180gr loads and see no reason to go to heavier bullets.Believe it or not I am using 180gr ballistic tips and three out of four have exited from the moose and elk.The fourth stopped against the hide after passing through the rib cage and offside shoulder of a large bull elk.I am using 96gr of reloader 25 and the result is 3375fps and 1/2" groups at 100 yrds.