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tree until we'd reduced the range to a more palatable 250 to 300 yards, and make the shot. From behind my third tree, I picked up my binoculars for another look before crawling to the next oak. Through the lens the blackbuck and I were eyeball to eyeball. He had made me at 500 yards! I didn't move. It was a staring contest. The buck took a few steps forward and resumed feeding. At that distance, I didn't think he could possibly perceive me as a threat. More naivete on my part. As I crawled around the tree, his head snapped up. No staring this time; he instantly wheeled around and showed me why the W yatt brought the jeep to a halt and picked up his binoculars. I followed his focus with my Swarovskis and there he was, grazing in the middle of an open plain. A beautiful black- buck on my first of a three-day hunt in the Texas Hill Country. The buck was 600 yards away, but through my spotting scope I could see that he carried horns of 18 inches, meeting my expectations. "Let's go collect him," I said to Wyatt. Wyatt backed the Jeep down the road a-ways, then we left the vehicle and crouching low, slipped into a stand of live oaks. It appeared simple. With the wind in our face, we simply had to dart from tree to S P O R T I N G C L A S S I C S 6 6 Ram0208/thinkstockphotos.com At Texas' YO Ranch, you can hunt blackbuck antelope and many other big game species that are approaching extinction in their native lands.