Antelope

No other big game animal embodies the wide open spaces of our country’s Western prairies and high desert steppe better than the pronghorn. Contrary to popular belief, pronghorn aren’t actually an antelope like the species found in Asia and Africa. You’ll hear some hunters refer to them as “speed...

Much of the Western hunting craze focuses on elk, mule deer and, now more than ever, whitetails. This is one of the reasons that tags for those critters have become harder to come by, and why antelope opportunities have stayed relatively reliable. Barely ranking above prairie dogs for most hunters...

More than any other creature, antelope are emblematic of the lonesome, wide-open spaces of America’s Great Plains. It’s a hostile and barren environment, in which the animals face temperature ranges from -40 to a 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Passing trains sometimes kill dozens at a time as the animals...