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Post by bushog on May 13, 2018 17:08:57 GMT -5
I've been blessed to live in NM for 20 years in a couple months. Part of that blessing has been to get my Dad to come out and see the West a couple times. Unfortunately as Dad ages those days will be no more and will just exist as memories. Such as it is.... On several of these occasions we've been fortunate enough to get to hunt Oryx on the Armendaris Ranch which Ted Turner owns. It's located just East ot Elephant Butte Lake and just West of White Sands Missile Range. The property was historically called Valle de Muerte. The ranch is over 650,000 acres and is not high fenced. The animals are free to come and go as they please. Many go back and forth between Turner's land and the missile range where they were stocked many years ago. Anyhow, Here are some pics of some of the oryx we shot. I was lucky enough to have my Gal along last time...Enjoy! Nice heavy Bull.... A fair cow... Dad with a really nice bull he shot Motley crew with a super cow I shot As I was going through the pics I found a pic of my first bull elk I shot down in the Gila. Look at the landscape....not all elk are woodland animals. That's the Plain of San Agustin in the background.
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Post by bigbrowndog on May 13, 2018 18:28:54 GMT -5
What rifle and caliber is that used to take the “fair cow”, it’s a nice lookin gun.
Trapr
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Post by kings6 on May 13, 2018 19:32:58 GMT -5
Oh man , does that elk bring back memories! When I used to archery hunt I spent a lot of time in central Oregon hunting off a older gentleman's ranch for elk that were mowing his alfalfa fields at night. Same type of open juniper ans sage country and just before dark you could see a dust clout coming from a couple miles away as the herds left their bedding grounds and headed for the fields. When I asked him the first time if I could hunt he said only if I agreed to sleep in his trailer he had parked in a corner of one of his pivots and get up at least once a night and chase the elk out of the field! Tough country to get within archery range shooting fir arrows out of homemade self bow but it sure made for some exciting encounters.
Those oryx look like they are a good sized animal Greg. I assume they are good eating and are a draw hunt animal?
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Post by bushog on May 13, 2018 20:01:02 GMT -5
So.... The rifle is a Blaser K95 in .300 Win. I have .243, .270, .30-06, .300 Win, 9.3x74R barrels for them (have 2). The .243 and .30-06 art stutzen barrels with full stock forends. The larger calibers are a handful in a rifle that weighs less than 7 pounds stocked. VERY accurate. Glen calls it my German Handi-Rifle. The oryx tags come in different types, on range once in a lifetime, off range public land, broken horn on range and are draw tags. Your Son can apply for some special hunts that non-military don't qualify for. To hunt them on private land you can buy a license over the counter but there's not much private land that has them. Mostly property that adjoins the Missile Range. Here: www.wildlife.state.nm.us/download/publications/rib/2018/hunting/24-Oryx.pdf
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Post by squawberryman on May 14, 2018 13:31:32 GMT -5
Jim Shockey looks like your dad sir
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Post by eskimo36 on May 14, 2018 14:07:46 GMT -5
Are those good to eat? Smell like an old goat?
Those horns are sure nice. Fill up a wall in a hurry.
Curtis
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Post by foxtrapper on May 14, 2018 15:38:53 GMT -5
Fantastic! Great pics!
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Post by foxtrapper on May 14, 2018 15:42:46 GMT -5
That K95 is so sweet! Had a 243 in my hands in a lgs 30-35 years ago. Little to spendy at the time! Que the music......regrets a had a few.....lol
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Post by sixshot on May 15, 2018 11:04:57 GMT -5
One little twig kept me from getting one in South Africa, later I burned that twig over the camp fire! Of course they are Gemsbok in Africa. Bushog that looks like a really fun hunt, ever take one with a six gun? I like that Blaser, very unique actions.
Dick
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Post by bushog on May 15, 2018 19:42:31 GMT -5
One little twig kept me from getting one in South Africa, later I burned that twig over the camp fire! Of course they are Gemsbok in Africa. Bushog that looks like a really fun hunt, ever take one with a six gun? I like that Blaser, very unique actions. Dick Never with a six gun. The guides said there was a woman who was doing the Weatherby society thing that took one with a .454 FA but they said that was the only one they had ever heard of. I asked. I'd guess you'd need to catch them at a water hole to kill one with a six gun and we never hunted that way. My experience was that where we were hunting 200yds was a close shot and when they break they run...and run...and run.... Not like a pronghorn. That Blaser is like an extension of me anymore.....I've hunted with it a lot. I find a great deal of satisfaction hunting with a single shot rifle. The meat is well...If you compare pork and beef, oryx and elk (or deer) are kind of the same. Oryx is a very mild light pink meat. Almost rabbit like but not that far in the mild direction. They're about the size of a cow elk...+/- 450lbs
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Post by bigbrowndog on May 15, 2018 20:26:30 GMT -5
Dick, it sounds like a job for a 357 Maximum and some PC bullets.
Trapr
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Post by bushog on May 15, 2018 23:15:31 GMT -5
Dick, it sounds like a job for a 357 Maximum and some PC bullets. Trapr Not a chance....these animals are tough. Unless you spine him or shoot him in the head good luck finding him after chasing him for miles. I saw one shot dead through the heart with a .300 Win and a Barnes TSX run over a mile. Just my opinion.
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Post by Ken O'Neill on May 16, 2018 6:04:59 GMT -5
I'm guessing that woman was Pamela Atwood, who has hunted extensively, and with a .454. All of yours are very nice Oryx / Gemsbok. I used a .338 Win. Mag. on the only one I ever shot (South Africa)
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Post by sixshot on May 16, 2018 11:57:17 GMT -5
Bushog, don't think I could run over a mile......
Dick
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Post by zeus on May 17, 2018 7:12:00 GMT -5
I figured it was Mrs Atwood as well. First name that popped in my head.
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