Mark’s 2007 Silvies Pronghorn taken near Buck Creek

I have known Mark since the days of Burns Bros., Travel Stops in the eighties.   Mark is an avid bow hunter and rifle hunter.   These days Mark hunts elk with a bow and has been very successful in doing so.

In 2007 Mark asked me what unit he should put in for an Oregon Antelope Tag.   I gave him a couple of units to choose form and he applied for the #2 Silvies hunt.    Mark bought himself a Garmin GPS and I loaded up some waypoints for him and his wife to go by.   I do believe that Mark and JoAnn camped at Chickahominy Reservoir outside of Riley, Oregon.

On the trip Mark ran into Brian Henninger and they shared information about what they had seen so far during the course of the hunt. 

“As for the Lope, I really apprecate the points I got from you, it gave us the right spots to be at.  I have sent a picture of the finished Lope from Artistic Taxidermy, as my lovely wife lost the camera in the Derert in Silvies and only had the cell or pictures.”

“Anyway we started off on the opener for a hike to a spot you had given us.  We hiked for about a half mile and there were 3 pronghorn bucks.   No I wasn’t going to end the season an hour into it!  So we continued to hunt, all together we saw about 40 Lopes on that hike, none of them were the ONE I wanted.”

“By Wednesday I had my crosshairs on 6 possible takers.  Then I found a nice one, not a monster but the biggest one I had seen so far.”

 Thanks again…   Mark