Doug had drawn a 2009 Gerber Archery Pronghorn-Antelope tag this past year and emailed for some information.  The information was good and Doug had a dandy Lope come to the waterhole that he was on.  The distance was about 50 yards and he thought the buck would come in closer, but opportunity changed and he did not get the shot.   The Gerber Unit had a lot of water this year and the Lopes were scattered far and wide. 
I recently got this email from about his success story on an Oregon Archery Coastal Bull this year.  I really appreciate Doug sharing his story with me and my website hunters.

2009 Osbon Successful Oregon Archery Hunt

“I thought that you might want to see the bull I got this year. Maybe I will get my Antelope next year!”

“My Brother, Nephew and I went out bright and early on a coastal elk hunt.  We started the morning finding the herd bull and his cows.  After a few set ups we finally got him to come in to about 24 yards, I drew on him but it was not to be. My peep had water in it and that was the first time that had happened to me. By the time I got things back together he had moved on.
So I was bummed because I though I had just blown my shot.  We had some other clear cuts to look at so we went to look at them.  About mid afternoon we decide we were going to go back after him because he was all wound up.  So we got to the road that we needed to take and stared up to where we were going to take off walking.  We had just started walking on a gated road when a Cow and a Calf stepped out into the road.  We could hear other elk coming so I got out an arrow.  Just as I had knocked my arrow here came this bull, he step out just far enough that I could see his front shoulder and back about 10 inches.  I centered on him and let it fly. The bull went back down into the creek and started up the other side then we heard him go down.
The shot was 34 yards and I got both lungs.”

Doug Osbon

Doug Osbon and his nephew with Doug’s 2009 Roosevelt Bull