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<blockquote data-quote="bigtex" data-source="post: 4485035" data-attributes="member: 2245"><p>Continued.....................</p><p>After my Grandson killed his Goat we field dressed him and headed back to the ranch where they have a walk in cooler. We got him hung up, had a bite to eat and headed out in search of another Pronghorn.</p><p>It didn't take long for us to start seeing animals but they were either smallish ones or were in spots where a stalk would be impossible. </p><p>We drove up on a high rise where it looked like a good spot to do some glassing, got out of the truck and climbed up on a big rock outcropping. We could see Antelope in the distant but something caught my eye about 900 yds in a ravine. I kept going back to it with the binoculars and finally made out an animal behind a large clump of sage. It was just standing there with its head down and every now and then it would shake its head, I told Justin it must be a buck and he was horning the sage. We watched for quite sometime but the Antelope never took a step. I told Justin "that aint right" somethings wrong! We decided to sneak down there to see what the deal was. As we got closer the Antelope raised its head, we then saw what the problem was. There was another Antelope attached to this ones horns, and unfortunately was dead. Very dead!!! Most of its hair was gone and was in an advanced state of decomposition. What to do, what to do. The dead goat had the largest horns we had seen on the ranch, the one still alive was small. Not that I would of shot him if the roles had been reversed as it just wouldn't of seemed right to me. Now we were faced with an ethical thing to do, one side of me wanted to put him down to end his suffering and burn my tag. The other side didn't want to end my hunt on a small Goat which was unable to run off.</p><p>We decided to back off, go back to the truck and call the Ranch owner. Cell service was spotty, where the truck was parked had no service so we drove to a higher spot. After calling the owner it was decide to stay put and he would come out and see what we could do. After what seemed an eternity we saw him heading our way with a couple of ranch hands. They followed us back to where we had last seen the two bucks but from the road we couldn't see them. I knew we were in the right spot because there was a two track road that I had made a mental note of to mark where he was. We finally decided to ease down the draw to look for them. After a quick search we spotted them lying up behind some brush. As we approached he tried to run but obviously couldn't. He was pretty tuckered out but still had some fight in him. Luckily the rancher had brought along a battery operated sawsall. One of the Ranch hands pinned the live one down and the other used the saw to cut the prongs off of the one still alive. That's all it took to free them. The smaller one didn't look to bad from his ordeal and the last time I saw him he was hightailing it over the next ridge.</p><p>Justin and I felt good that we had done our good deed for the day and the Rancher was happy that we had done the right and ethical thing. </p><p>To be continued......................</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigtex, post: 4485035, member: 2245"] Continued..................... After my Grandson killed his Goat we field dressed him and headed back to the ranch where they have a walk in cooler. We got him hung up, had a bite to eat and headed out in search of another Pronghorn. It didn't take long for us to start seeing animals but they were either smallish ones or were in spots where a stalk would be impossible. We drove up on a high rise where it looked like a good spot to do some glassing, got out of the truck and climbed up on a big rock outcropping. We could see Antelope in the distant but something caught my eye about 900 yds in a ravine. I kept going back to it with the binoculars and finally made out an animal behind a large clump of sage. It was just standing there with its head down and every now and then it would shake its head, I told Justin it must be a buck and he was horning the sage. We watched for quite sometime but the Antelope never took a step. I told Justin "that aint right" somethings wrong! We decided to sneak down there to see what the deal was. As we got closer the Antelope raised its head, we then saw what the problem was. There was another Antelope attached to this ones horns, and unfortunately was dead. Very dead!!! Most of its hair was gone and was in an advanced state of decomposition. What to do, what to do. The dead goat had the largest horns we had seen on the ranch, the one still alive was small. Not that I would of shot him if the roles had been reversed as it just wouldn't of seemed right to me. Now we were faced with an ethical thing to do, one side of me wanted to put him down to end his suffering and burn my tag. The other side didn't want to end my hunt on a small Goat which was unable to run off. We decided to back off, go back to the truck and call the Ranch owner. Cell service was spotty, where the truck was parked had no service so we drove to a higher spot. After calling the owner it was decide to stay put and he would come out and see what we could do. After what seemed an eternity we saw him heading our way with a couple of ranch hands. They followed us back to where we had last seen the two bucks but from the road we couldn't see them. I knew we were in the right spot because there was a two track road that I had made a mental note of to mark where he was. We finally decided to ease down the draw to look for them. After a quick search we spotted them lying up behind some brush. As we approached he tried to run but obviously couldn't. He was pretty tuckered out but still had some fight in him. Luckily the rancher had brought along a battery operated sawsall. One of the Ranch hands pinned the live one down and the other used the saw to cut the prongs off of the one still alive. That's all it took to free them. The smaller one didn't look to bad from his ordeal and the last time I saw him he was hightailing it over the next ridge. Justin and I felt good that we had done our good deed for the day and the Rancher was happy that we had done the right and ethical thing. To be continued...................... [/QUOTE]
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