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Casper Realtor and sportsman Dylan Heide got some good karma by saving a baby pronghorn stuck in a cattle guard near Casper. (Dylan Heide)Never Too Early Or Too Far<\/p>\nCasper Realtor and sportsman Dylan Heide got some good karma by saving a baby pronghorn stuck in a cattle guard near Casper\u00a0on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Heide was driving along an unpaved county road “in the middle of nowhere” scouting for pronghorn when he noticed something strange sticking out of a\u00a0cattle guard he was approaching.<\/p>\n
\u201cI noticed something right before I drove over it,\u201d he told Cowboy State Daily. \u201cI thought it looked like an antelope butt, but it was too late for me to mentally recognize what the heck it was. I went over it, stopped, rolled my window down, looked back, and could just see it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The weird bump was a pronghorn fawn. Its head and legs were stuck between the\u00a0grate,\u00a0and it was desperately kicking and flailing to escape.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was probably no more than a month old,\u201d Heide said.<\/p>\n
Heide gingerly grabbed the fawn by the torso and gently lifted and twisted it out of the cattle guard. He set it down on the dirt road, and it bolted.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe obviously didn’t want to have anything to do with me, so I tried to be as calm and careful as I could,\u201d he said. \u201cI put her down. It screamed and ran away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Heide stayed long enough to watch the rescued fawn join a nearby group of pronghorn. He\u2019s fairly confident his mother was among them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard a doe chirping as soon as I parked,\u201d he said. \u201cThere were three does staying a little close to the cattle guard. She ran right to them, and they took off.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Unguarded<\/p>\n
Heide regularly scouts pronghorn during the summer, so he\u2019s seen and heard plenty of stories about awkward encounters. This one stands out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hear about them getting stuck in fences, and I\u2019ve seen them stuck in a fence before, but they normally get themselves out pretty quick,\u201d he said. \u201cI’ve never seen one stuck in a cattle guard.\u201d<\/p>\n
The probable sequence of events, according to Heide, is that the adult pronghorns went under barbed-wire fence on either side of the cattle guard. The fawn, not knowing any better, took what looked like the path of least resistance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt probably didn’t even know what a cattle guard really was,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was probably taking the easy path, walking down the road until it tried to cross it and accidentally fell in.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fawn wasn\u2019t injured. Heide hopes this was a lesson well-learned for the youngster.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as it doesn’t go back and find the same cattle guard, we’re probably all right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Casper Realtor and sportsman Dylan Heide got some good karma by saving a baby pronghorn stuck in a cattle guard near Casper. (Dylan Heide)Never Too Early Or Too Far<\/p>\n
Heide shares his stories and perspectives on hunting and fishing in Wyoming on his FishHuntWyo<\/a>\u00a0social media pages. He has a particular outlook on Wyomingites\u2019 relationship with pronghorn.<\/p>\n \u201cI have issues with how many residents take antelope hunting for granted,\u201d he said. \u201cThey shoot the first antelope they see, call it a hunt, and then complain that it’s too easy. I think if they took it more seriously, they could learn to enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n By scouting pronghorn in the summer, Heide can observe the animals he hopes to take when Wyoming\u2019s season opens later in the year. He\u2019s already got a list of several individuals he\u2019s been observing in the same area for years.<\/p>\n Heide also believes Wyomingites don\u2019t see the bounty before them. Pronghorn are plentiful in the Cowboy State, but rarer elsewhere.<\/p>\n \u201cWyoming is really unique in that aspect,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have so many antelope here. Colorado, Montana\u00a0and Idaho, especially, have very, very, very few antelope, so they’re very hard to come by. We take them for granted in Wyoming.<\/p>\n Heide feels\u00a0the satisfaction of a successful pronghorn hunt comes from spending time with the target. By choosing a particular individual and observing its movements and habits over time, a successful harvest is much more rewarding.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery animal is a little different,\u201d he said. \u201cThe more you’re out there, learning the terrain and scoping out the animals running around, the more success you’re going to have in the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n Heide said he felt fortunate\u00a0he was able to save the fawn.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’re here to take care of God’s animals,\u201d he said. \u201cI think God put me there for a reason, in that situation, to help that baby antelope.\u201d<\/p>\n He also hopes that, by posting the video, he can help reduce the stigma around hunting and hunters. It\u2019s something he\u2019s seen more after the actions of Cody Roberts<\/a>\u00a0in Daniel and other high-profile incidents of \u201chunters\u201d showing poor judgment.<\/p>\n \u201cHunters get a bad rap for wanting to be cruel,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the majority of us really care about wildlife, conservation\u00a0and putting forth the effort. We want to make sure our wildlife is taken care of for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Casper](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Pronghorn-in-cattle-guard-3-7.7.26.jpg\")
Casper Realtor and sportsman Dylan Heide got some good karma by saving a baby pronghorn stuck in a cattle guard near Casper. (Dylan Heide)All Creatures Great And Small<\/p>\n