Scouting pictures

[colorado russ]

I\'ll be bow hunting antelope this year and have a good friend who\'s hunting with me and running our trail cameras. We\'re not seeing as many goats as normal for this time of year but they\'ll show up before August 15. I think most has to do with amount of rain and more drinking water on adjacent land for the time being. This is private land and has a year-round creek running through the property with a couple of spots dammed up.

Decent buck and has a couple months of growth yet.[attachment=0]<!-- ia0 -->antelope 1.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment]

 

[colorado russ]

Meant to add let\'s see everyone\'s scouting pictures too for \"Other Game\"! I won\'t have more for about 2 weeks.

 

[iccyman001]

Nice buck!

 

[timberland]

I always wondered how the horns grow. I mean, I KNOW how they grow, but does the prong bud like a deers tine. I would like to see some time lapse pics to verify what I think they do.

 

[colorado russ]

timberland, I don\'t have any time lapse type photos but I do believe the \'prong bud\' grows out like other antlered animals. I\'m posting a picture of a Euro mount a buddy did for me. The horns are like sheaths that grow over the bone that\'s underneath. While I\'ve never found one, I have been told they shed just like other animals.[attachment=0]<!-- ia0 -->antelope horn.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment]

 

[bowhunter]

I thought Pronghorns didn\'t shed. I thought they were Horns not Antlers. I think I heard that the little point drops off but the main horn grows like a Ram. Maybe I am clueless :think:

 

[colorado russ]

bowhunter, the horn itself doesn\'t drop off but the sheath around it does. I did a couple of Google searches just to make sure I had some clue as well! Here\'s some info I found off Field and Stream. I\'m learning myself so thanks for prodding me to find additional information. I\'ll be looking for any horns when archery hunting them mid-August.

Pronghorn antelope do shed their horn shells every year and grow new ones, so shed hunters may find the black, hollow, fibrous horn sheaths when out antler hunting.

Unique pronghorn horn characteristic No. 2: The pronghorn is the only ungulate to grow headgear that\'s classified as horn but which is deciduous?sort of. Each year, between late October and early December, pronghorn bucks shed the outer sheaths of their horns while retaining the slender inner cores, around which new sheaths have already begun to form. (In fact, the outward and upward pressure exerted by the growing sheaths helps to loosen the old sheaths.)

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[bowhunter]

Interesting. I guess I was clueless.