Antelope shot in 1956 on Clemens Mountain (Yakima County)

[RadSav]

Ha aint that the truth,so anyways do you also happen to have a pile of old ammo data books full of almost useless knowledge laying around?

I'm sort of a Savage 1899 and Winchester 88 nut.  So not much outside anything about those two guns and the early ammo about those.  Plus a bunch of cut and past stuff off the internet.  Chuck Hawks has written about as much about these loads as anyone I know.  Others probably have more information about such things as I do.  The old Savage catalogs have been a treat each year.  I try to purchase one as a b-day present to myself each year.  Should have them all pretty soon.

[boneaddict]

Ha aint that the truth,so anyways do you also happen to have a pile of old ammo data books full of almost useless knowledge laying around?

That's funny.  I was just reading through Speer Volume One last night.

[stevemiller]

Ha aint that the truth,so anyways do you also happen to have a pile of old ammo data books full of almost useless knowledge laying around?

That's funny.  I was just reading through Speer Volume One last night.

Awsome,ive been collecting these books from bookstores and yard sales for years,a lot has changed and some things have never come close to what was lol.Good reading for sure.

[Mike450r]

Ha aint that the truth,so anyways do you also happen to have a pile of old ammo data books full of almost useless knowledge laying around?

That's funny.  I was just reading through Speer Volume One last night.

Awsome,ive been collecting these books from bookstores and yard sales for years,a lot has changed and some things have never come close to what was lol.Good reading for sure.

When I worked for a commercial re-loader I had to read 5 or 6 manuals before I graduated from packaging to loading.  They are some of my favorite books to this day.  The stories and history that are included for every caliber are awesome, they are a major factor in how I decide on what my next one will be.  I am thinking right now about .264 Win.

[stevemiller]

Awsome 

[jdb]

After concluding my info. This is just a tall tale story. It could of been taken somewhere in wa though. I will have to say thompson has been here all of his life and does have some intel on the history of naches.

Absolutely could have been taken around here in the 50s,even with a .22. 

there were no antelope on clemans in the 50's

[stevemiller]

moved here?you meen brought back here right?(ELK) a lot of old timers around yakima will tell you that there were antelope here in the 50s.

[stevemiller]

thats cool,i just looked it up though and they tried reintroducing them again in 1938 (WA. that is ) and on the rez they have had them out there for a long time.fish and game say there was 20,000 in the early 1900s,so to say none well i dont know about that.

[jdb]

My family was living in that area in the thirties. Also have family friends that were there as early and some earlier. They say no antelope in that area. I thought the 1930's reintroduction was in the Palouse?

[Curly]

During the late 1930’s and 1940’s pronghorn antelope were released on the Yakima Training Center (Oliver, no date).  By the early 1970’s these animals had disappeared, most likely due to a restricted gene pool since the original introduction only included around 20-30 animals.  There were also stories of poaching and shooting by the military.  Small groups of animals were also moved to other areas within eastern Washington, but did not subsist, probably for the same reasons

http://www.ynwildlife.org/pronghorn.php


http://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/01156/wdfw01156.pdf

The above link has some detailed info on the history of pronghorn in WA and detailed info on the reintroduction of them by the dept of game in the past.

[boneaddict]

Here is one from the Wenas.......




Clarification: photographer is from the Wenas, the antelope is not

[jdb]

Lol well played sir!!