Alberta Canada Antelope Hunting Guides & Outfitters
There are
2 hunting outfitters in
our directory offering antelope hunts in Alberta.
Please review each of the outfitters listed below and contact
them directly for more information about their antelope hunts.
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Antelope
Hunting in Alberta
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A small, trim animal,
standing about 90 cm high at the shoulder, the pronghorn
is the fastest North American mammal. It is capable of
speeds estimated at 80-95 km/h in short bursts. Pronghorns
travel in small herds, and signal each other by raising
the white hair on their rumps which flashes in the sunlight
for long distances on the prairie. They can see long distances
and have very keen eyesight. Male and female have branched
or pronged horns of approximately 3-7 cm horns. The outer
sheath or horn is hair that is shed each fall. Thus making
them not a "true" antelope. Aside from their
identifying horns, they also have 2 white bars across
the throat, white markings on rump and underparts and
the bucks have black patches behind the jaw
Hunting the pronghorn antelope
is now restricted to adjacent southern corners of Alberta
and Saskatchewan consisting of some 40,000 square miles
of pronghorn habitat. The
Alberta prairie is the northern limit of pronghorn range.
There were six antelope that were killed in the past couple
of years that scored over 80 (Boone and Crockett). and
some of these were taken by bow hunters! 82 is the Boone
and Crockett minimum, and records show that more antelope
are making the book now then in the past.
Antelope hunting has always been by spot and stalk. The
trick to hunting antelope is remembering how good an antelope's
eyes are! Hunting pronghorns with binoculars and then
stalking them works well since you can spot them before
they spot you. The best time of year to hunt them is during
the breeding season because they will be too caught up
in their mating displays to notice predators.
On an average day a hunter may see over 100 antelope.
Most of those will be in herds from half a dozen to twenty
or more and at least half a dozen bucks will score 70
Boone & Crockett or better! A person who takes his
time looking over the bucks (and can shoot straight) should
go home with an antelope on the good side of 15 inches. |
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