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I’ve read many articles about hunting antelope and it seems the preferred cartridge is 25-06, 243, 270 or similar. I’ve read many articles on how flat shooting the 22-250 is also. Is the 22-250 not a good cartridge for Antelope?
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It'll do fine. Proper bullet selection.
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A 223 is just fine... a 22.250 is just more of a good thing...
any good 50 grain, 55 or 60 grain Soft Point will do just fine...they'll work just fine on deer also.
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It'll do fine. Proper bullet selection.
-Jake ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS Shot many antelope with a .223, a .22-250 just extends the range at which you can be comfortable.
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A 62 TTSX or 62 Grain Bear claw would be good if twist is fast enough. I’ve shot 200 lb pigs at 225 yards in the shoulders with both. They busted up the shoulders and kept going. The big green feeder is 225 away
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I’ve read many articles about hunting antelope and it seems the preferred cartridge is 25-06, 243, 270 or similar. I’ve read many articles on how flat shooting the 22-250 is also. Is the 22-250 not a good cartridge for Antelope? It would be ludicrous to think the 22-250 wouldn't work on an antelope. At any sane hunting distance. They are pretty dang thin skinned animals. Put a good bullet into the boiler room and they are done. "Good" can mean 55gr Hornady sp interlock too. Don't over think this. My buddy kills deer all the time with that bullet. I personally would run my 62gr TTSX load because I have a bunch of those bullets, and it shoots well enough. It's not the best shooting bullet in my rifle, but I'd trust it out to 500 yards. Yes, it's flat shooting. Yes they have great bullets that would work great on big deer and even antelope. Definitely accurate enough, if you have your rifle and load set up right.
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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Thanks for the input. I figured as much.
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Shot many deer with one with bullets from 55 to 80 grains out to 400. So....heck yea it will.
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Bamagun01: Indeed the 22-250 Remington is death on Antelope - if the bullet is carefully placed in the heart/lung area. I've done it and seen several more do it. BUT... there are better choices in my experience. If you are planning on a single Hunt for Antelope with a 22-250 you already have then be patient and aim for the heart/lungs and enjoy some fine/different game meat! Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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My 22-250 did well on antelope several times. I was using 60 gr. Nosler Partitians.
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As others mentioned, bullet selection is key. This is a 22/250 “varmint bullet”, fired into a guy’s foot, at point blank range (He carried the gun in the house, and decided to check whether the safety was on, by pulling the trigger with the muzzle pointed down, unfortunately at his foot. The safety was NOT “on”, and the gun WAS loaded, obviously…) The sole of this man’s foot didn’t have a mark. No penetration, whatsoever. The xray showed several hundred particles of lead.
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I doubt that foot is salvageable
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Have seen my son use the Hornady 55gr sp kill too many deer to not believe it would be fine for antelope.
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I killed a few back in high school with a .22-250 and el cheapo Winchester 55 grain soft points (whatever they were.....JSPs or PSPs???) in the old orange and white boxes. No issues at all out to a few hundred yards and I doubt that bullet would be considered 'proper' on this board.
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As others mentioned, bullet selection is key. This is a 22/250 “varmint bullet”, fired into a guy’s foot, at point blank range (He carried the gun in the house, and decided to check whether the safety was on, by pulling the trigger with the muzzle pointed down, unfortunately at his foot. The safety was NOT “on”, and the gun WAS loaded, obviously…) The sole of this man’s foot didn’t have a mark. No penetration, whatsoever. The xray showed several hundred particles of lead. Too much meat damage IMHO.
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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As others mentioned, bullet selection is key. This is a 22/250 “varmint bullet”, fired into a guy’s foot, at point blank range (He carried the gun in the house, and decided to check whether the safety was on, by pulling the trigger with the muzzle pointed down, unfortunately at his foot. The safety was NOT “on”, and the gun WAS loaded, obviously…) The sole of this man’s foot didn’t have a mark. No penetration, whatsoever. The xray showed several hundred particles of lead. Too much meat damage IMHO. The bullet vaporized one of the metatarsals (a bone about the same diameter as one of the bones in your finger), and the bullet “vaporized”, as well. As mentioned, didn’t even penetrate through the bottom of the foot (not much more than an inch).
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As others mentioned, bullet selection is key. This is a 22/250 “varmint bullet”, fired into a guy’s foot, at point blank range (He carried the gun in the house, and decided to check whether the safety was on, by pulling the trigger with the muzzle pointed down, unfortunately at his foot. The safety was NOT “on”, and the gun WAS loaded, obviously…) The sole of this man’s foot didn’t have a mark. No penetration, whatsoever. The xray showed several hundred particles of lead. holy .. dumdasses never learn in anyway but the hard way
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It'll do fine. Proper bullet selection.
-Jake This. In Wyoming you need at least a 60 grain bullet. Just FYI.
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60 grain Partitions and 64 grain PowerPoints work fine on Nebraska whitetail does in the 120 lbs. range, so I'd expect them to do equally well on like size antelope.
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A The sole of this man’s foot didn’t have a mark. No penetration, whatsoever. The xray showed several hundred particles of lead. When Joe Biden went hunting with Dick Cheney.... What could go wrong??
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