I've hunted my whole life, but never pursued the pronghorn. I'm planning a hunt in wyoming for a goat in 2011. Just wanted some input from my fellow hunters on your opinions for the best caliber. Thanks, and happy hunting!
Any caliber that you can shoot well out to 3-400 yards if you're a capable shooter.
Pronghorns are the whimps and fairly easy to anchor with a well placed shot. Just practice your long range shooting in case that's the shot you'll have to take. Personally I like to work in close and only had to take one shot over 150 yds over the years.
Wyoming has a minimum caliber requirement of.23-caliber. This means the smallest round I know of, that is legal to hunt with in Wyoming is 243.
Tough to call any thing a bad antelope round. I have shot most of my antelope with a 270-Winchester.
If I had to pick one rifle from my safe to hunt antelope with, it would be my 270-Winchester.
I use a .25-06 when hunting antelope. That cartridge uses a slightly heavier bullet than the .243/6mms and does a very nice job on mule deer also. I would bet that I have seen other guys use a .30-06 or .270 more than all others combined. Not many guys buy a special antelope rifle.
I won't live long enough to know what is "best" but there is a whole bunch of good ones. As was said antelope are not particularly tough and any decent center fire common big game chambering will kill one quite easily. I have probably used ten different chamberings over the years and everyone of them worked as well as the next. It all about shot placement..............
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well if ya want to kill and gut the animalat the same time I would say go with the .257 wby mag...and then don't shoot if the animals closer than 600 yds...this rnd ruins alot of meat!!!!
All of the ones I've killed were with my 06. My kids have killed most of thiers with a .243. As insinuated above, if you have a center fire, big game rifle, you are no doubt set. Although, if you've an eye on a firearm you don't have, this good be the opportunity...
What's the best caliber for pronghorn?
