[Buffalobob]

Each winter in late December I start making my plans for the next Falls hunting and which permits to apply for. Then once I know which applications were successful, I finalize my plans.

Shooting animals at and beyond 1000 yards with a rifle has become somewhat boring so I thought that perhaps shooting one or more with a bow at or beyond 100 yards would be interesting. I ordered me a new bow with 340fps speed, 8.5 inch brace height and 80% letoff and equipped it with all the latest, most expensive bells and whistles available. I have been practicing and am probably good to go to about 60 yards but not 100. I still love my guns too much to forsake them and concentrate solely on the bow. I might not actually succeed for a few years but the lure of the challenge make life interesting.

So here is the schedule this Fall

Leave home about August 15 and go to Utah to the same place I hunted elk and deer last year-Manti La Sal. Bow hunt deer and elk in Utah from August 21 to September 17.

Leave Utah and drive to Casper Wyoming and hunt antelope. Try to kill one antelope with the 460 S&W, try to kill another one with the Remington XP-100R in 260 Remington beyond 500 yards. Try once more to kill an antelope beyond 1500 yards and preferably beyond 2K with my long range rifle.

Depart Wyoming around October 1 and drive to southeast New Mexico and hunt Barbary Sheep until October 7.

Drive back to Utah and hunt cow elk with a rifle until either me or the elk expires on October 21.

Drive home unpack and start chasing deer and turkeys in Maryland.