I flew in from Saint Petersburg, FL to meet up with my good friends and hunting partners Ken and Vern Lunde. We drove from the Rapid City, SD airport straight to Moorcroft, WY.

The morning of the hunt (10/1) was below freezing temperatures, 40 mph wind and snow flurries. This Florida boy was a tad chilly.

I took this pronghorn antelope at 7:30 AM. It was a 140 yard shot. I was using a Cooper M52 Excalibur chambered in .25-06. The bullet was a Sierra 100 gr Pro-Hunter Spitzer.




Ken took his at 8:05 AM. It was a 210 yard shot. It dropped like a stone. Ken was using his Cooper M22 chambered in 6.5 x 55 Swede. The bullet was a Sierra 120gr Spitzer Boat Tail.




The pronghorns were gutted using Ken's Busse Satin + Snakeskin SJTAC.

We celebrated with pronghorn chilli for lunch, elk tenderloins for dinner (from Vern's freezer). The toasting was done with Booker's bourbon.

Cooper rifles...close friends...a successful hunt...great food..high end bourbon...life is good.

Currently working on a Euro mount.

Once we filled the 2nd tag we stopped by the hotel...picked up our stuff...and drove straight to Hot Springs, SD to process the meat.

Hit a much warmer Wind Cave Park the next day......

A beautiful, wide open space.




Lots of wildlife today.

A large red 'yote:


An older pronghorn buck and a young buck:




Lots of mule deer:




The highlight is always the American bison:

Vern scored his on opening day for pronghorn antelope hunting in South Dakota. He made a very nice one shot kill on a running buck. He harvested it about 15 to 20 miles NW of greater-metropolitan Edgemont.

Glad you fellas had the success you did. That's purdy cool.

Very nice write up & great pics as well. Thanks for sharing!!

Hey, MTV, did you have to put lipstick on him before you took the picture????