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I say work with the 25-06 and get it the way you want it then hunt it.

txdkmn
I'd take the Shilen barreled 25/06 and switch the Nikon Monarch onto it. The 300 is going to ruin a lot of meat(the 25/06 can too, depending on bullet choice/placement). Even though you are glassing from a truck, you're still apt to end up walking a lot, so I wouldn't take a heavy rifle- just sucks a lot of the fun out of rambling around on the prairie.
The 25/06 will buck wind well, and thats an important consideration. I'd trust a Nikon Monarch because I have had them for years with great reliability. Have not heard so much good about the Buckmaster. As a matter of fact, I wonder if that's some of your trouble in getting the 25/06 to shoot.
One accesory a lot of people like for antelope hunting is the good old Harris bipod- Let's you get high enough to shoot over the sage brush and still be rock solid.
There's not that's much more fun than a good antelope hunt!

Fred

This thread got me thinking, it's been over 20 years since I used my .22-250 for antelope hunting, so I just looked up .22-250 loadings in my Barnes Manual. A 45 gr TSX at 4000 fps may go antelope hunting with me this year...

25-06 is a perfect 'lope rig. 100g TSX shouldn't mess up too much meat either.

Buffy-my 223 (just AI'd) has a thing for the 53 TSX and I haven't lately been much into trying other bullets but me thinks that I'm just gonna have to try some 45's in it this spring.

May just be my model perfect spring bear rig..

Dober

Shot my last half a dozen antelope with a .223, but just got one AIed like Dober...now I can kill 'em more deader...


Ingwe

1.5 moa will put a bullet inside a cantelope at 350 yards, so i'd go with your 25-06. any reasonably accurate 100 gr bullet will do the trick, and i'd bet you can find one for your 25-06.

Sounds like it's right off the pages of a World Famous Herter's catalog.

Dober, who AI'd your .223? I'm assuming it has a 1:12" twist. According to the Barnes Manual, the 1:14" twist of my .22-250 is too slow for their 53 gr TSX bullet.

25-06 or 257 wby would be awful hard to pick against in the pronghorn woods...............

buffy..the 1 in 14 twist is not too slow for the 53 grainers...especially at the velocity/RPMs the .22-250 is putting out...Ive been shooting them since their inception in a couple different 1 in 14 guns...they work GREAT!

I'm gonna hafta call Barnes..........

Ingwe

Go with 25-06. You have GOT to try the Hornady 120HP with 51.0 H-4831sc for those speed goats. Lordy, that WILL work! Tom

I killed quite a few speed goats with both the 25/06 and the 6mm Rem.

The 100g Speer BTSP, 100g Hornady, 100g Sierra are all great bullets for goats out of the 25/06. Using R#19, Win Cases, Win primers, you will get a little over 3400 fps out of the 100's.
JMO, I'd forget high dollar bullets for speed goats, they are not hard to kill.

My favorite load for the 6 Rem was 43.0g of IMR 4350 with a 95g Partition at 3200 fps, Ballistic tips were not available back then, or I would have shot them.

Keith-I like the 25/06 as well. We pretty much used the 100 Horns with 7828 exclusively for all that got in our way...grin

And in my 6/06 I used the 95 NBT and the 70 NBT quite a bit as well.

Dober

Dober...you love the BTs, don't you? You run the BT's in your Mashburn too?

I'd take the 6mm.

Go halfway in between the first two to a 257 Bob; the perfect PH rifle !

Seriously, I'd go w/ #1 and 115 gr NBTs or VLDs, although 110 AB wouldn't be bad (though I agree with Keith; no need for premium bullets on PHs). They'll get you the reach you may need and put 'em down nicely.

Any of those three would do it well though.

I think grandpawwII or whatever his handle is likes butt shots with the 53 gr TSX and will show you pictures...

25-06 is fine, but if you can't get it to shoot, you clearly "need" a new rifle -- and my vote would go to the 257 Wby Mag. Don't just kill 'em... kill 'em in style.

Brad, what is that in your avatar?

I'd take the 25-06 if I could get it to shoot. I've had good luck shooting Hornady 100 grain Interlocks in mine, maybe you should give them a try?

.25-06, 100g TTSX or 110g AB