We rolled out of camp as the sun was rising, just after legal shooting light. I rode shotgun in the pickup with my rifle at my side uncased, unloaded, muzzle pointed at the floor. A full magazine waited in my pocket.

Less than 400 yards down a gravel ranch road my guide, Wade Woods, spotted a pronghorn buck skylined on a ridge. 

“There’s a nice buck right there,” Wade said excitedly as my hunting partner Philip Miller watched from the back seat (see the video from Philip's hunt below).

The buck was standing broadside 150 yards away and staring at us. We had been hunting for approximately four minutes.