help with judging speed goats please. If you have any pics of your speed goat you

BuzzH may have the most impressive collection of antelope I've seen posted ever. Anytime guys like him, Greenhorn, Eli, etc post about antelope...I take note!!!
 
Wyoming last year. Right under 80” gross
 

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I just got back from a long hot weekend of scouting, what are everyones thoughts on theses guys?
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There's some really cool antelope in this thread. For me, a buck with cool looking horns is better than one that tapes/scores better. Big is nice, but character is better in my eyes.
 
I guess it depends on what you want, how much time you have, and what tag you have in your hand.

I really like the one with the big cutters. If I see him next Saturday he'll have some lead heading his way :)

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My brother is a taxidermist here in NM so he gets a lot of antelope that come through the shop. They are very hard to judge, even when you are holding the skull cap in your hands. Good mass counts for a lot and makes the lengths look shorter than they really are. There are some really good goats posted in this thread.

We measure a lot of the big ones just to see what they are, and on only one occasion has a hunters self-measured score been accurate. He was actually a half inch low on an 83.5 inch goat. Everyone else usually tells you at least 2 and usually 3+ inches bigger than the antelope actually is. The measurements we make have been verified on several occasions by official measurers and we are always within a few eighths of an inch of the official score. I have no idea how the hunters end up so far off from reality.
 
Measuring a pronghorn isn't quite as intuitive as say a deer or elk in my opinion. It's easy enough to make a numerical mistake on where you're supposed to measure the mass at, and I think a lot of people measure prong length incorrectly. That prong length measurement is a strange one especially if you never/hardly ever have done it.
 
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