.460 weatherby for antelope?
08-21-2007, 05:29 PM
#31
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: .460 weatherby for antelope?
The hunt should be entertaining, however to me there is much more to the hunt than splattering an animal to hear the WHOP. The hunt is entertaining, the kill is a small part to me but thats one fools opinion I guess.
08-21-2007, 07:24 PM
#32
Typical Buck
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Location: Denver, Colorado
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RE: .460 weatherby for antelope?
The hunt should be entertaining, however to me there is much more to the hunt than splattering an animal to hear the WHOP. The hunt is entertaining, the kill is a small part to me but thats one fools opinion I guess.
All the silly stuff (16" naval gunsand B-52's [even your 8" naval guns on occasion]) is what wouldtruly "splatter" an antelope and make a really big "whop", sorry....
The big bore willsimply make a nice convincing hole and put 'em down without all that much mess, as an antelope just won't provide enough medium to really open it up....unfortunately Ican't change theK-THUD that you apparently find objectionable.
No comment onyour fool's opinion.
And so it goes: big bad hunter, poor little bambi critter
08-21-2007, 10:14 PM
#33
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RE: .460 weatherby for antelope?
The taking of the animal to me is maybe 20 percent. I can only speak for me. Many very entertaining hunts ended up with taking an animal yet the memories of those hunts are next to no others. I can't leave the touchy feely part out when it comes to hunting. Its a passion. I repeat once more for the lovers of recoil, use the 460 with my blessing, it won't hurt me a bit. For some who seem to need their steel tempered , it may lend a hand at that as well.
08-22-2007, 08:50 AM
#34
Typical Buck
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RE: .460 weatherby for antelope?
Sorry, IMHO no steel hardening as a result of hunting pronghorn no matter the weapon used (even your 8" naval guns).
And so it goes,
Big bad hunter.... poor little bambi critter.
And so it goes,
Big bad hunter.... poor little bambi critter.
08-22-2007, 11:13 PM
#37
Typical Buck
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RE: .460 weatherby for antelope?
Be sporting! Place a large sheet of plexi-glass upright in the middle of the bald ass prairie on a known trail to a waterhole or were they slide under a fence at mach II.You might make leg breaking traps with a posthole auger and cover them up if your so inclined.........Get real......................Harold
08-23-2007, 11:26 AM
#38
Thread Starter
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Location: SE Wisconsin
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RE: .460 weatherby for antelope?
pheasantfanatic sparked my memory. Has everyone on this site see the video of people test firing the.577 T-Rex? If not check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQJSZs-euZU
08-25-2007, 06:07 PM
#39
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Idaho
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RE: .460 weatherby for antelope?
Thanks for the thread crazyguy. I appreciate humor, most the time, considerably more than the stuffy and pompous types that show up in forums more often than not. Really love the Youtube video, I guess there actually is a rifle that kicks more than my 12 gauge slug gun. Maybe if I shot one of these .577's a few times, myslug gunwould feel more like a .22. Thanks again.
08-27-2007, 11:52 AM
#40
Nontypical Buck
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RE: .460 weatherby for antelope?
ORIGINAL: EKM
Nothing like flat out hammering your quarry in the early morning chill....
thesound of a heavy K-THUD on impact.... the heavy smell of prodigous amounts of spent nitrocellulosescenting the air....
Looks, sounds, and smells like victory.
Nothing like flat out hammering your quarry in the early morning chill....
thesound of a heavy K-THUD on impact.... the heavy smell of prodigous amounts of spent nitrocellulosescenting the air....
Looks, sounds, and smells like victory.
This is classic...lmfaoo I cant quit laughing