Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Best cartridge for Antelope, Coues and Blacktailed deer?

There is no "best" but my favorites for antelope are my .257 Roberts and 6.5-06AI. It doesn't take much to put one on the ground, especially the does I normally hunt.

Might take the #1 .280 this year, though - its a virgin in my hands and shoots great.

My personal favorite is a .257 Roberts or a .25-06, but since they are not options for you, I would go with your .270 Win.

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Gee...that looks familiar....

I'm taking my 6.5-284 in two weeks to NM for Pronghorns. Killed one last year with it. This year, its wearing a Z5 Swaro with ballistic turret calibrated to the load. On a bench, this gun will shoot 4 1/2" at 600 yds. with progressively smaller groups back to a hundred where it shoots teens and twos. Now, with a bipod and me shooting it, probably not that good. Should do the trick with 140 SST's at 2,950 fps.

My latest project is a .240 Wby, a 26" HS Precision SPL and a Conquest 3-9x40. It could become my Pronghorn/Whitetail rifle. It's lighter and while not quite as accurate, still sub MOA with the right loads. I think the 6.5 would be better beyond 450 yds, or so, but how often does one need those extreme ranges to kill a speed goat?

DF

Yep

What went with those postings about Rick limiting Larry's multiple Fire names back to one? Was that a fact or a rumor?

DF

I lost count years ago on how many Antelope I've Killed with a 270. they do work will.

Don't overlook a 270 with 150's. They'll shoot to almost the same point of impact and will have more downrange energy at long range. They'll also buck the wind slightly better. I've killed lots of deer and elk with those.

Its a fact, unfortunately this is entirely a different troll.

270 is a good all around choice for the three you mentioned. Then again my buddies from my hometown all shoot 300's with 180 grain pills for coues and antelope and that does wonders. But for 450 yards max like you mentioned,I don't see the need for more than a 270. Hell a 243 would be hard to beat too. Its when you get out passed about 500 yards that I would look to a mag with a good bullet.
I shoot a 7RM.

Kique

For Coues I carried a .300 Win Mag for years loaded with 150, 168 or 180 grain bullets, but am now using a .270 w/ 130s. Both work fine, my vote would be the one you shoot best.
Mike

270 loaded with 140 Accubonds would be hard to beat everyday of the year... Thats my back up gun/load combo.

243 win Core-Lokt 120

Must be a wrong keystroke as there is no 243 120 corelokt.

Should be an option everyone has...LOL 257 Weatherby under appreciated long range game getter going. IMHO

I could not agree more with this line of thinking, given your two choices.

Thanks hamr.... Next back up is a 7rum with accubonds. I like the slat shooters!

Surprised no one mentioned the 25/06 with a 115-grainer. While you can't go wrong with pot full of cartridges that have roughly the same trajectory, the 270, being among the best, I always thought the 25 was made for the little goats and deer.

I do agree, the 25's are perfect for animals in the 150-175 and less range. I'll have a hard time not selecting my 257 wby for any hunt up to elk.