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<blockquote data-quote="Paparock" data-source="post: 1265839" data-attributes="member: 106235"><p>Antelope are not hard to kill. You just have to punch their lungs. I lived and hunted "speed goat" for ten years out of Casper, Wyoming with a custom .30-06. Now I'm weird because my 06 loves 200 grain boat tail bullets grouping them into nice little cloverleafs at 100 yards so I hunt everything with them. Sometimes, they go on death runs until they figure out they are dead and pile up on their nose and some times they stagger for a few yards and collapse. A 6.5MM is fine for antelope as long as you hit them in the lungs with a good bullet. I suggest you not try to shoot them on the run as they are extremely fast. They usually don't run far and then stop and look back, wait for them to stop. Accuracy and range estimation are everything; I know as before range devises I missed a Boone and Crockett antelope due to wrong range estimate. I hunted for him the rest of the week and never saw him again; he didn't get that big by being stupid.</p><p></p><p>They stink by the way (that's why the locals call them goats), and do not let any of the hair touch the meat as you are dressing the meat. If you are hunting for a trophy then they are going to taste like someone got carried away with "sage spice" unless you get permission to hunt on someones ranch where they will taste a "LOT" better as they will eat more like the cattle on the ranch. Soaking the meat in buttermilk over night also helps. Good luck and happy hunting.</p><p>Rocky</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paparock, post: 1265839, member: 106235"] Antelope are not hard to kill. You just have to punch their lungs. I lived and hunted "speed goat" for ten years out of Casper, Wyoming with a custom .30-06. Now I'm weird because my 06 loves 200 grain boat tail bullets grouping them into nice little cloverleafs at 100 yards so I hunt everything with them. Sometimes, they go on death runs until they figure out they are dead and pile up on their nose and some times they stagger for a few yards and collapse. A 6.5MM is fine for antelope as long as you hit them in the lungs with a good bullet. I suggest you not try to shoot them on the run as they are extremely fast. They usually don't run far and then stop and look back, wait for them to stop. Accuracy and range estimation are everything; I know as before range devises I missed a Boone and Crockett antelope due to wrong range estimate. I hunted for him the rest of the week and never saw him again; he didn't get that big by being stupid. They stink by the way (that's why the locals call them goats), and do not let any of the hair touch the meat as you are dressing the meat. If you are hunting for a trophy then they are going to taste like someone got carried away with "sage spice" unless you get permission to hunt on someones ranch where they will taste a "LOT" better as they will eat more like the cattle on the ranch. Soaking the meat in buttermilk over night also helps. Good luck and happy hunting. Rocky [/QUOTE]
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