Thread: First Pronghorn Antelope

My grandson, Owen, got his first ever antelope on Sat the 25th, my 71st birthday. We hunted a remote spot in the far NE corner of Nevada, just north of Massacre Lake. It's miles of foot deep alkali dust and volcanic boulders to get up on the big butte and to the far north end, where few go. In a three hour hunt we saw about 50-60 pronghorn. Owen and his dad, Kevin, did the hunt, while I positioned the Ranger out of the general area.

Owen connected on a decent antelope about four miles from where we could get the Ranger, so we dressed it out, caped it out and discarded the back skin and rib cage, quarted it, and packed it out. It took the three of us four hours to get back to the Ranger. As a bonus for Owen I dragged my knee along the ground while crawling under a drift fence and exposed a perfect obsidian arrowhead. Owen saw it; I'd have missed it.

It was a perfect mild day at a 5,200 foot elevation, a perfect hunt, and a perfect birthday. You see...I shot my first antelope the same spot at 12 years old on my birthday in 1959. MAN! Time gets away from old hunters.




Proud Dad:

Well done team and happy birthday

What a cracker story,
congrats all.

The added perils are Shark Rocks!




This "art work" is along the main road into that part of Washoe County.


I took this young antelope a few years ago at the same place. Those rocks go on forever, and walking is tough on feet and ankles...and BOOTS!

Well Done great to get stories from your part of the world , and Happy Birthday. Those antelope are sure neat looking animals.

Owen is coming out to dinner tonight. I'll ask him to bring the arrowhead and snap a pic.

I have a small collection and will snap some photos when I run across them. They got put somewhere during home repairs and remodeling.

Ah ha, a part of the world I remember well, @luv2safari I used to work at Twin Creeks mine and lived in Winnemucca. Made the trip out to the NE a couple of times chasing pronghorn. The photos don’t tell the whole story do they, as you mentioned above its rough country all right, bloody hard going and tiring even though its flat. Loved the story, fantastic family milestone to be recorded in the annals and retold many times!

Fly...

Did you happen to see any of the ginormous mule deer bucks that roam there?

These...

Oh yes, lots of large bucks out there. Wouldn't have been the same trips as the pronghorn hunts cos if I remember correctly the seasons were a few months apart.

I do remember it being bloody cold on a northern Nevada mule deer hunt the one time, and I wasn't properly attired for the wind. I thought I was.... but I most definitely wasn't. Have never been so cold before or since. Learned a big lesson that day. But yes, had some epic times chasing mule deer out that way.

I will try to find and scan some photos from back then. If they're in the container it'll have to wait.

Love to see that arrow head.
Also is there any story on how mascara lake got its name?

https://books.google.com/books?id=Bi...ssacre&f=false

http://www.americanexploration.com/t...ashoe00008.htm

Owen's new find is the one at the top.

Here are a few others we found in that area over the years.

Himmm no image there @luv2safari
I've not yet looked at your links but did find this. A good read.
http://www.onlinenevada.org/sites/de...ayton_1977.pdf

[QUOTE=luv2safari;740825]Owen's new find is the one at the top.

Here are a few others we found in that area over the years with Owen's at the top. IMGUR photo hosting site has failed, so this is now a Photobucket copy...That explains the blacked out posted photos above.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Are there cultural conflicts and issues with collecting those?

It's all a bunch of BS with the "native Americans" IMO. They are a PITA just to be a PITA. They have no gripes when we find and pick up all the beer cans they leave. Those are the modern relics they are leaving for future relic hunters. Just the way things are anymore...