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Planning a Wyoming Antelope hunt next year or next depending on outfitters. What Caliber is recommended?

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What do you own?



I have a #1 in 25-06 and a WBY Accumark in .257 WBY that I consider perfect for my style of hunting. My best ‘lope was taken on a mixed bag hunt at 460 yards with a .300 WBY launching 180 NABs. It worked to say the least.

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My 270 has worked out well on the last three pronghorn. Honestly they are so small compared to our deer any of the 6.5’s work fine too. Last year we had a guy show up with a 300 Weatherby. He got his pronghorn too but the shot dressed out the goat for him and carried it to his truck.

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I've used a 270win and a 30-06. Next hunt will be with a 270win.

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I am partial to 6mm and .257” chamberings. We killed them this year with .243, 6mm-06, .25-06 (two guns) and a 7mm-08.

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I’ve killed most of mine with a .264 Win mag. 120 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip and the 125 gr Participation both work well.

Killed a few with a 6mm Remington. 80 grain Corelokt also works well.


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Most of my Pronghorn have been taken with a .257 Weatherby, and 100 gr. Barnes bullets. This season, I used a 6.5 PRC to take my buck. With high-BC bullets giving less wind deflection, I think the 6.5 PRC is an excellent choice for the game.


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Pronghorn makes me automatically think 25-06 or 257 Wby.

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Hard to go wrong with a speedy .24, .25, or .26

But if you've got some 30-06 200 NPTs left over from another hunt, they work great too.


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.243-.264


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Pretty much anything that you use to hunt deer that has a relatively flat trajectory and meets the minimal caliber requirements of the state you will hunt in, will work quite well on Antelope. There’s also pretty much no such thing as too much rifle....at least in a rifle/cartridge that can be comfortably carried and fired from the shoulder! We, my wife and I, hunt Antelope with cartridges that many consider unnecessary for elk, moose, ect! You merely hunt within the acceptable limits of your cartridge and your skills! memtb

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Killed my 1st speed goat with a 257 Roberts. Have taken some with my 6.5 Creedmoor and the rest have been with either the 6mm Remington or 6mm Creedmoor.


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Lots of things work. I've used 6mm Remington, 7WSM and 28 Nosler.

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I have a switch barrel rifle with .30-06, .243, 6.5x55 and .300WSM.
My son has the same rifle in .300wsm

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Thought the .243 and 6.5x55 would do the job

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My 30-06 w/130gr Barns TTSX kills 'em dead well out past 400 yards....


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Just looked through my hunting notes and found that over the decades have taken pronghorns with 20 different cartridges, ranging from the .22-250 to .300 WSM, including some slightly unusual ones, such as the 6.5x57R I used on a buck a week ago, from one of my Sauer drillings. The .22-250 worked fine with 70-grain Hornady GMXs at 3400 fps, taking a 15" buck at 350 yards.

The .300 WSM was used on three, back in the day when it was new Wonder Cartridge, and by the 3rd one I knew that 180-grain bullets would drift less in the wind, and shoot up less meat than the 150s most people picked.

Have also seen a bunch of antelope taken by other people, including my wife and several people I guided back in the 1980s for a local outfitter.
The only problems occurred when somebody was "overgunned," and couldn't handle the recoil. One was young man who planned to become an Alaskan guide, and his only rifle was a .338 Winchester Magnum. He could NOT hit an antelope with it, even at close ranges, and I finally worked him down through smaller cartridges until finding the only one that didn't make him flinch (due to his "training" with the .338) was my .220 Swift coyote rifle. The next morning we found a fine buck, and he killed it with one shot.

One other guy was overgunned with a new 7mm Remington Magnum, which he'd purchased due to being convinced the .243 Winchester he'd left back home in Pennsylvania couldn't shot "far" enough for pronghorns.

One other comment: After new pronghorn hunters find out how good they taste, they often regret shooting up so much fine meat with a larger cartridge and/or violently expanding bullet.


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Originally Posted by abbydog
I have a switch barrel rifle with .30-06, .243, 6.5x55 and .300WSM.
My son has the same rifle in .300wsm

Originally Posted by abbydog
I have a switch barrel rifle with .30-06, .243, 6.5x55 and .300WSM.
My son has the same rifle in .300wsm




Any of those are great.

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Originally Posted by chlinstructor
I’ve killed most of mine with a .264 Win mag. 120 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip and the 125 gr Participation both work well.

Killed a few with a 6mm Remington. 80 grain Corelokt also works well.


Antelope aren’t hard to kill, in my experience.


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Yeah shoot whatever you like. They're easy to kill. Just know your windage.

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