antelope question
03-07-2009, 08:19 PM
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Arkansas Ozarks
Posts: 325
antelope question
I will hopefully draw Wyoming antelope and deer tags this year. I am a Southern boy, have neverhunted out West, and usually hunt with a 30-06/150 grain Rem.Core-lokt. Isthis too much for antelope? It's what Iam most comfortable and used to shooting. I have a .270 if I need to go to 130 gr, but I hate the gun.
It seems everyone on TV who antelope hunts has a smaller caliber/lighter bullet.
It seems everyone on TV who antelope hunts has a smaller caliber/lighter bullet.
03-07-2009, 08:26 PM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Nevada
Posts: 180
RE: antelope question
If you're comfortable with the -06 and can shoot it accurately, take it with you. I know guys that shoot .300 WSM's at Antelope...perhaps that's "too much" but the most important element is that you know the gun and can shoot it accurately at longer distances.
03-08-2009, 05:33 AM
#3
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Eastern Colorado
Posts: 517
RE: antelope question
Shoot them with whatever you got and what you feel comfortable with. They say antelope hunting is a "long range" game. Of all the goats I have shot I have never shot one over 150 yards. Good luck and have fun Antelope hunting is a riot.
03-12-2009, 11:24 AM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: IL
Posts: 6,575
RE: antelope question
Use whichever you like, either one of those two will blow through an antelope....least my .270 with 130gr soft points does...
which is why I picked up a .243, my friend was using 95gr nosler partitions and those also went right through. antelope are pretty small animals.
If you have a .243 I'd say take that, but if its between the .270 or .30-06, pick the one you like.
Last time a bunch of us got together, one guy was shooting 125gr from his '06.
which is why I picked up a .243, my friend was using 95gr nosler partitions and those also went right through. antelope are pretty small animals.
If you have a .243 I'd say take that, but if its between the .270 or .30-06, pick the one you like.
Last time a bunch of us got together, one guy was shooting 125gr from his '06.
03-18-2009, 02:01 PM
#8
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Trumbull County, Ohio
Posts: 9,524
RE: antelope question
Federal makes .30-06 all the way down to 125 gr. If I were you I would just shoot a 165 or 150 out of your '06. My remington 700 shoots the 165's best. Get a couple different ones and shoot them and see what shoots best, and always take the rifle you are more comfortable with, leave the .270 at home haha.
-Jake
-Jake
Works for me.
