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Same rifle from 300 yards.

150 yards.

A young hunter from California with his first antelope buck taken with a .308 Lazzeroni Warbird from 400 yards. Pretty cool buck with tips that almost touched on top.

It is an original Ballard #5 - better known as the Pacific. .45-70 in this case. It dates to the buffalo hunting era. I've only killed 4 antelope with it so far, but who knows what else it has killed over the last 135 yrs.

.240 Weatherby from 350 yards. Nasty antelope rifle. B&C buck, that taped right at 16".

Another buck taken with the .220 swift from about 250. Before the rangefinder days. How did we ever get by?....grin!

my son killed 3 and i killed 2. his longest shot wasn't quite 100 yards. my buck was maybe 75. one doe my son shot was 40 yards max. we were hunting a private ranch, which makes a difference.

My average is well under 200. I have only taken three over 300, and all of those were just barely over. I averaged them several years ago for another post and I recall that the average was somewhere around 130. I have only taken one since and that was at 139 yds. The three long shots were made with a .257 AI with a 115 Partition, a .270 with a 130 BT and a .280 AI with a 120 BT.

Brent D - terrific rifles!

You guys pretty well dispel the story that a fellow needs an 800 yard rifle to take pronghorn...

Guy,
Hunters, real hunters, like Cook, White, Dixon, and many, many others dispelled that story long ago. Many of us have simply forgotten the history. Me, I'm just a copy cat using the same rifle and the same ammo.

Life is still good.

Brent

Took a nice buck this year at 344 yards using a Bog Pod tripod while sitting. Rest was solid and I was very comfortable with the shot.

6 antelope ranging from 125 to 350.

Got this one last week at 350. Was so darn hot I shot the closest one to the freezer.

Mine have been from about 150 to about 330 yards. I use a Versa-pod.

303 yards last weekend.


Closest has been 175 yards.


The rest have been in-between.

Great pics guys. Pat, I hope I can go hunt one with you one day.

JM

Don't know, overall. But I shot six in '09: shortest- 120, longest- 240, average- 185.

No sticks, no 'pod, rarely sling. Often over daypack; otherwise, over or against whatever's handy (no, not my door frame!) or from the sit.

Me too. Pat always has some very nice animals.

That's worth archiving!


My '03 buck at less than 20 yards:
"The antelope were feeding and milling and resting a couple hundred yards away. I sneaked up a closer rise; there was a trio of foot-high insubstantial bushes between us, and I bellied up in their lack of cover. I crawled up, lay on top of one, rested my rifle on the worthlessness of the second, and had the third one blocking my view. One buck was lying down, facing but not recognizing me. I figured the largest buck of the group to be 16", good enough for me. I tried to get the range but I'd put my binocs on after my rangefinder; the combo of overlapping straps and purse-carry and lying down made for a difficult situation! Big Boy began to push the herd more or less towards me again. They went down into a crease, and soon some does filed out just 20 yards away!
Turns out there was a gap in the fence just to my side, and the goats wanted out. While the does milled about by the gap and others continued to join them, and I was sprawled out in full view, I tried to frantically but surreptitiously lower the magnification on my scope; it took me a couple of tries, and somehow I didn't alarm the sharp-sighted antelope that spread out only 20 yds away. Then out of the crease came my buck. He paused, quartering towards me, and I shot. They all ran back to my left, milling in confusion. My buck, also, ran, some 25 yds, to my surprise. I figured a 165 gr pill at 20 yds from a 308 FAT would dump him on the spot."

120? not to afoll fare.

I have only shoot one so far-plan on many more-super fun hunt.
Two weeks into the season in Wyoming last year we were lucky to get within 300 yards of a buck. Shot mine at 384 yards off of shooting sticks. The Zeiss scope with the Z800 reticle on an accurate Ruger 7 rem mag worked great.