Planning to burn some point in Wyoming this fall (God willing and the creek don't rise...). I know pronghorn are notoriously hard to judge.
Here's a little backstory for context:
I took my two sons pronghorn hunting in 2020 in a 1 point unit and they both wound up killing nice, representative goats (13 inchers). It was the first time any of us had hunted antelope, and yes, I had read Mike Eastman's book through twice. I thought I understood how to field judge them. We shot both goats at nearly the exact same time (both died in their tracks about 50 yards apart). When we walked up to them, there was not really any ground shrinkage, we knew what we had shot and were happy. When we put a tape on them though, we were shocked that neither goat was over 13 inches in length.
Again, we were in a 1 point unit and just looking for a couple of decent bucks, but I realized that when it came time to burn my points, I was going to need to understand field judging a lot better.
So... for you antelope guys. What do you really "look" for? I know a giant goat will look like he's got baseball bats on his head. I'm talking about the difference between a 70" goat and an 80" goat. How do you know if he's barely 70" and you should keep looking, or if he's approaching 80" and you should start planning a stalk...
I'm throwing in a couple of photos of my boy's goats so you can tell me "Look dummy, he only has ______ and _______ above his _____. You shoulda known he was only ____ inches...." ( or whatever metric you use...)
