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I have found big, mature Wyoming bucks to have larger bodies and heads that the average buck running around, which can disguise horn size. The fact that big Wyoming bucks tend to have big mass also can disguise prong length. A small-bodied buck with thin mass can appear at first glance to have super long prongs and garner the attention of many a hunter, who will walk up to an average buck with average prongs. I admit that hunter has been me, more than once. Haha...
Very true there is quite a bit of difference in body size in bucks in Wyoming. It pays to look at bucks when they are near other pronghorn whenever possible. I shot this buck a number of years ago and knew when I killed it that it was a very small bodied pronghorn. It was with a mature doe and was almost exactly the same size as the doe body wise. I really liked the shape of the buck and it was 15.5 inches tall...so....
The shape got this buck killed, IIRC it still scored around 77. This is definitely the smallest bodied pronghorn buck I've ever killed in Wyoming.