Sitting in a ground blind overlooking a waterhole is generally accepted as the most effective method for tagging pronghorns with a bow. On the flip side, the most difficult way to kill one with archery gear is spot-and-stalk.

In the 1-minute YouTube video below, you’ll see a relatively new archery pronghorn technique being used by outfitters who own well-trained horses. Because pronghorns are generally not afraid when encountering horses on the prairie, they don’t immediately flee when one slowly walks in their direction.

As you’ll see in the video, this young pronghorn buck is so comfortable with the nearby horses that he continues to eat. Of course, the buck isn’t smart enough to know or count how many legs a horse should have, so he doesn’t understand a hunter is hidden on the opposite side.

Unlike decoying pronghorns on the prairie, this technique using horses provides a broadside or quartering-away shot instead of a head-on one, which greatly increases the chance for a double lung hit.