Pronghorn

[WonderBread]

Is it common for pronghorn to be in the Bismarck area? I saw two yesterday south of the cottonwood softball complex and didn’t know they came this far east.

 

[stever58]

There were 5 on Airway Avenue, west of 26st, Saturday morning

 

[ice head]

Is it common for pronghorn to be in the Bismarck area? I saw two yesterday south of the cottonwood softball complex and didn’t know they came this far east.

There has been 3 bucks and 2 does hanging in the are for a few weeks, I see them in that open field north of runway express in the mornings.

 

[johnr]

I feel as though even the tough winter aside, we have a strong population of goats

 

[AR-15]

Game and Fish must be busy with their horse trailers

 

[Motohunter]

These ones were hanging out about above DQ in Mandan about 2 months ago. That's the first time I've ever see antelope there too

 

[undguy]

About a month ago there was a group of 5 by the turn to the Desert. One of them was very emaciated - likely didn’t survive. I also saw 3 just north of the airport yesterday.

 

[PrairieGhost]

A year ago a buck and doe hung out a mile west of my house at Jamestown for a while. I called the regional Game and Fish office in Jamestown and they said the pair had been around for a year.

 

[NDSportsman]

Used to be a pair that hung out by the Embden exit along 94 got lots of looks that far east, haven't seen or heard about them for awhile though. Last deer season saw a ton of antelope out west, most I've ever seen out there.

 

[Motohunter]

This was right across from Elk Ridge elementary in Bismarck.

 

[espringers]

should be finally drawing a tag this year with 9 points. looking forward to it.

 

[johnr]

should be finally drawing a tag this year with 9 points. looking forward to it.

IS it application time yet?

 

[bravo]

There was a small but growing group that lived around the Mandan hill until snowmobiles ran them out this winter. Pretty neat seeing them in city limits.

 

[espringers]

@johnr... no

 

[MuleyMadness]

should be finally drawing a tag this year with 9 points. looking forward to it.

Your close but do not be shocked if you do not get one. Badlands Goats are almost as bad as a smoke pole tag

 

[espringers]

I love smoke poles. Wait....

 

[FightingSioux]

I wish they didn’t sell doe tags, let the population grow faster and spread

 

[Allen]

I wish they didn’t sell doe tags, let the population grow faster and spread

I'd bet a bunch that their migratory/transient nature plays far more into the apparent population than tags for does. They move around a lot, there have been years where a damn good share of the antelope left ND and wintered in SD/WY/MT. And not all came back.

 

[mikef]

I'd bet a bunch that their migratory/transient nature plays far more into the apparent population than tags for does. They move around a lot, there have been years where a damn good share of the antelope left ND and wintered in SD/WY/MT. And not all came back.

Also, imo, not hunting them just saves them to die in the next bad winter. WE are on the periphery of their territory

 

[guywhofishes]

I recall a herd hanging out on the sidehills along I-94 in Bismarck in the 70s. Until a tough winter wiped them out.