On the face of it, there’s no way to kill a pronghorn antelope with a bow. These animals size up country by the township, and the idea that they’d voluntarily get within shouting range of danger is as laughable as deliberately putting coleslaw on a hotdog.
But every year several thousand bowhunters do the impossible, arcing arrows through thin prairie air and into the vitals of pronghorns. Their success doesn’t hinge on the angular mathematics of reticle subtensions, or on some particular ninja stalking skills. Instead, these magicians find a way to beckon wary pronghorns across space, time and wheat stubble into bow range by exploiting some behavioral cue.
Most rely on decoys to reel antelopes into bow range. Others wave a white flag or otherwise appeal to the animals’ curiosity. And
