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Great antelope hunt today I shot two one Buck a 701 yd and one doe at 259. The boy I was mentoring shot one at 248 yd with his 270 Winchester I used my proof research Remington 700 28 Nosler couldn't be happier


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Wow. 701 yards is a heck of a long shot on a goat. Was the wind blowing? Did you connect with the first shot?


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Nice, I went out yesterday to look for some antelope as well, but between the 60 mph gusts and thick smoke from the Mullen fire, decided I'd put it off for a day. Any pics?

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Great shooting Fotis!

Headed to WY in early October. Can't wait.

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Originally Posted by UncleAlps
Wow. 701 yards is a heck of a long shot on a goat. Was the wind blowing? Did you connect with the first shot?

Yes and yes


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701 is wild. I've never shot one past 250. Never wanted to.

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My longest antelope shot was 325 yds.. One shot. Glad he wasn't out further. Closest was within spitting distance of 200 yds. Then a few years later, one at a lasered 242 yds. That's about the extent of my meager antelope hunting experience. I couldn't bring myself to try 701 unless I had an awful lot of practice at that distance.

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Originally Posted by OSU_Sig
Great shooting Fotis!

Headed to WY in early October. Can't wait.


Best of luck to you!


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Fotis, tell me about the wind and how you pulled off that kind of a sniper shot. that is pretty amazing.


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The wind was coming 5-7 mph from the 2 o clock position according to my windfinder app on my phone. I dialed 3.2 mil up and .2 mil right (5 mph). Nailed him.


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Great job buddy ! I’m not surprised though, you test all the time and always use good equipment 👍👍👍


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Thanks Chris! Appreciate it


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Fotis what app is it exactly ?

Heckuva shot man !

And this thread is worthless without pictures..........


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The ballistic app is Strelok everyone knows that one. The wind app is called WINDFINDER and it is free.

The buck is not really all that. I was there mostly for the boy who was hunting his first time.


The buck was shot on the ridge in the back and drug back.

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The ballistic app is Strelok everyone knows that one. The wind app is called WINDFINDER and it is free.

The buck is not really all that. I was there mostly for the boy who was hunting his first time.


The buck was shot on the ridge in the back and drug back.

[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]


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Nice! Looks like a great first hunt for that young man. Btw, I hope that drag wasn't as long as it looks.

Since more is better as far as pictures on a thread go, I'll toss mine in as well.

There was a lot of pressure in my antelope area (probably because the Mullen fire is consuming everyone's elk/muley hunting areas) so the antelope were skiddish and making themselves scarce, managed to get this guy at ~260 yds last Sunday though.

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Nothing special, but he's kind of wide though.

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The drag was long as hell thank God there were three of us there. I tell you when I was younger it always used to be about the horn now I really don't care that much I just like to hunt the excitement and I give my antelope away to disabled veterans in Cheyenne or the needy


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