Definetly a unicorn I see them in the hill country all the time right by the road 20' off the fence.

Now that everyone is seeing them, I think I will put a unicorn hunt at the top of my bucket list this year.

good luck, I hear they only come to power corn

The are lot of fun spot and stalk with a bow, season starts oct 3. By permit only

I've seen the small herd between Barnhart and Big Lake several times. They started showing up there during the 2011 drought and just stayed. I've seen them on the golf course in Big Lake twice and along the fence from there to the county line outside of Barnhart.
I've seen a small group of 3-4 between Midland and Odessa on the south side of I-20 a couple of times. Further north, I've seen them between Snyder and Post and between Snyder and Lamesa as well. I saw a small group of 3 outside of Sterling City between there and the turn-off to Midland once in the past 8 years.

I think some of the groups we're seeing were pushed out of their core areas due to the drought and have just stayed put.

Several years ago there was a state official that got into trouble for darting and transferring antelope from New Mexico to his ranch around Goldthwaite (I think). Broke the fed law about interstate transport of game without a permit or some such. From what I read, the antelope basically starved to death on his ranch because they didn't know what they could eat and weren't familiar with what was available.

This map shows the historic range of the pronghorn as extending way east of Austin. Is it wrong?

http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/images/dmap285.jpg

Yes from what I was told their range was much larger back then than today. Habitat was much different back then also. Wildfires sculpted the range and kept the grasses lush. Mule Deer, Elk, Bison, Antelope were more migratory than they are today. Supposedly was recorded sightings of migrations of animals that stretched from one horizon to the opposite one in length, with no end in site. Some accounts said days long IIRC.

Cedar use to be highly limited due to fire also

I guess I can't see why they could flourish in Gillespie county if it used to be part of their natural range.

Originally, the prairie would have a fire come through every three to five years, with fire suppression, the characteristics of the country changed. Pronghorns need about 5000 acres that's not fenced, or has a fence easy to get under to thrive, they are intolerant of small spaces. When confined to small spaces their breeding success crashes and they slowly die out.

I don't consider western Ks. typical P.H. country, but they are there, were not, when my dad farmed N.W. of Dodge City.

Just south of Elkhart Kansas they are everywhere.

We have a small herd in western Shackleford county that has been around for as long as I can remember.
Very rare to see them from the road.
This area was all open prairie land before the cattle drives brough in the mesquite and prickly pear. Antelope were native here and many other counties this Far East before 1900.
There is a small herd on the Chadborne Ranch in eastern Tom Green County that I have seen a few times. I think that western Tom Green county actually issued a few tags back in the 90s.

My ranch is on the southern edge of western Kansas. I have more pronghorns than my winter wheat can handle. Killed 66"-87" pronghorn. Western KS is prime habitat as with eastern CO, Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle.

My area has also been a major trapping area for State relocation projects.