Search results for query: 223 for antelope

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  1. M

    Use Enough Gun

    Use Enough Gun The last elk I shot was a cow, taken about 190 yards away. An easy shot. Just as I fired, and elk behind her, moved closer and she hopped forward. There was nothing I could have changed at that point. Had she waited a full second later to jump, my bullet would have gone through...
  2. MTLabrador

    Use Enough Gun

    To be fair, I’ve never shot any kind of pork.
  3. M

    Use Enough Gun

    I understand your disbelief completely. Thank You for responding to my post MTL, That happened about 15 years ago. Before the drought hit the southwest, particularly central California where pigs were everywhere. I hunted them year round, especially so during the summer when the barley...
  4. M

    Cartridge Selection - AR

    Thank you for thorough response. I appreciate the feedback!
  5. pointingdogsrule

    Favorite Pronghorn round ?

    I have a 25-06, however, I really shoot well with the .223. I am I only one that shoots a .223 for antelope? good luck to all the dog
  6. buffybr

    Cartridge Selection - AR

    Like others have posted, head shots are generally NOT recommended on deer or most big game animals. I have large hands, and a deer's brain is smaller than my fist, and the other lethal target in the head is the spinal chord which would be smaller than my thumb. Those are pretty small targets...
  7. Clam

    First time hunter rifle

    I just don’t see the need for big power Cartridges on deer and antelope, but I am a firm believer in well constructed bullets placed well, at speeds they are designed for. How about .223 with a top quality hunting bullet? (If .22 is legal in your state) or 6x45 w/Nosler 85gr. Partition? Maybe...
  8. Jorge400

    Anyone hunt with 6.5 PRC?

    A bit off PRC topic but I recently purchased a Christensen Arms Ridgeline in 6.5 Creedmore. It comes with a muzzle break but I've never used it. Don't need to. This gun has very little recoil with 140+/- gr bullets. I'm not sure if it is the rifle, the cartridge or the recoil pad, but I switched...
  9. Brian in Montana

    Speed goat vs .223

    Most antelope hunting I've done has been archery. I've shot 2 WT deer with a .222; both were like 80 yards and it worked out fine. The only antelope I've shot with a rifle was this year with a 7mm-08. I guess I'd add that although my gun hunting experience is limited as it pertains to...
  10. 1100RemingtonMan

    Rifle Cartridges for Hunting

    .22 LR. Small Game .17 HMR. Praire Dogs .223 Rem. Varmint's 6mm Rem. Coyotes & Deer & Antelope 264 Win Mag. Deer & Antelope. 30-30 Win. All I have shot with it is a rabbit, just don't hunt with it. Should sell it. 300 H&H Mag Any large Big Game in North America Good thing I...
  11. antelopedundee

    Favorite Pronghorn round ?

    Probably not, but WY has a minimum bullet weight of 60 grains if you use one there.
  12. npaden

    Sons First Elk Rifle - Poll

    LOL. I knew there were a lot of threads on it, heck, I think I've even posted a thread about this before. It's a paralysis by analysis thing for me. I should have bought something for him last year but we kept the .223 one more year for deer. One guy I talked to had a .243 Kimber Montana...
  13. F

    First attempt at “long range” shooting.

    My match rifle started out as Remington 700 5-R in 308. Scope is a Bushnell 3.5-21 DMR. I added bottom metal so I could use 10 round mags and put in a Rilfe Basix trigger and shot it for a couple of years. There wasn’t a Tactical Division , 223/308, then so I figured out pretty quick the 308...
  14. buffybr

    Any comments on 300 Weatherby Mag?

    After wanting a .300 Weatherby for 40 some years, I finally bought one in 2009. I immediately re-stocked it in a AA Fancy walnut stock that fits me, is pillar and glass bedded, free floated the barrel, and had a KDF muzzle brake installed on it. It shoots a variety of 168 and 180 grain bullets...
  15. Crumb

    What .cal

    I can’t have just one personally, I use .22 or .17 for small varmits, .223 or my favorite .204 for coyotes, 25-06 for antelope and deer out west or 12 gauge with slugs at home for deer(shotgun only in my part of MN) and 300win mag for elk.
  16. M

    .243 manufacturers, any recommendations?

    Thanks for the info. Whats the minimum grain you'd use with a .243 for a big buck?
  17. FAIR CHASE

    smaller caliber gun coyote, javelina, coues deer

    Yep, dozens of deer/antelope have fallen to either a 22-250 or 223 here as well. I know a few others that have done a lot of clean killing with a 22 CF. Out of easily 50+, I lost one very large mule deer buck back in the 80s (high school) that I never did recover. That one still haunts me to...
  18. C

    Favorite Pronghorn round ?

    Im new to this sight. Its awsome! This is my first post (hope i dont screw it up). I hunt south east MT antelope. I have always shot them with my 30-06. Except for the time I shot a buck at 250 yrds with my 223. The trick to antelope hunting is not the round you drop them with, but how you take...
  19. W

    Favorite Pronghorn round ?

    I've used my Browning A bolt in 270 Win. with 140 grain Bergers, another A bolt in 223 WSSM with 64 grain Power Points, and a Weatherby Vanguard in 30/06 with 180 grain Sierra Pro Hunters. They all worked just fine, but of those I don't think you can beat the 270 Winchester with a 140 grain...
  20. VikingsGuy

    .243 manufacturers, any recommendations?

    For recoil sensitive folks the 3006 is not a good choice even with light loads in my opinion. Actual recoil is a simple physics relationship between the mass of the bullet, the velocity of the bullet, the mass of the powder, the velocity of the powder and the weight of the gun. So in fact a 80...
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