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Good caliber for hunting Pronghorn in WY or CO
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<blockquote data-quote="emp1953" data-source="post: 2385664" data-attributes="member: 71817"><p>Here's an experience I had, certainly not typical. I was visiting a Navy buddy on leave home in Colorado (1972). He decided that he wanted antelope BBQ this particular weekend. He grabbed two .30cal M1 carbines from his safe and we hopped in the jeep. Down a long dirt road he stopped at a dry wash out that went about 200yds off into the grassy plain. He handed me a carbine, took his and a flag like what they used to put on a kids big wheel toy. We walked crouching to near the end of the wash out and he said to hunker down. He waited about 20 minutes then he started poking the flag up, waving it and dropping it down. I thought he was taking me for some kind of fool. After about 40 minutes of those antics he slowly peered up over the grass tops, did a 360 and told me 3 were out there about 400yds away, much too far for our puny M1's with peep sights. A little more flag waving and the antelope got close enough to shoot at, less than 100yds. Both of us got one and the BBQ was great. He said that's all they ever did for antelope. He said they were like cats. Curiosity gets the better of them. Hey, who was I to argue with a guy that grew up there, hunting them all his life. So based on the success of those puny little rounds, you can kill them with just about anything. The range has to be right and you have to do your part putting the shot into the vitals. Get a good rangefinder and use it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="emp1953, post: 2385664, member: 71817"] Here's an experience I had, certainly not typical. I was visiting a Navy buddy on leave home in Colorado (1972). He decided that he wanted antelope BBQ this particular weekend. He grabbed two .30cal M1 carbines from his safe and we hopped in the jeep. Down a long dirt road he stopped at a dry wash out that went about 200yds off into the grassy plain. He handed me a carbine, took his and a flag like what they used to put on a kids big wheel toy. We walked crouching to near the end of the wash out and he said to hunker down. He waited about 20 minutes then he started poking the flag up, waving it and dropping it down. I thought he was taking me for some kind of fool. After about 40 minutes of those antics he slowly peered up over the grass tops, did a 360 and told me 3 were out there about 400yds away, much too far for our puny M1's with peep sights. A little more flag waving and the antelope got close enough to shoot at, less than 100yds. Both of us got one and the BBQ was great. He said that's all they ever did for antelope. He said they were like cats. Curiosity gets the better of them. Hey, who was I to argue with a guy that grew up there, hunting them all his life. So based on the success of those puny little rounds, you can kill them with just about anything. The range has to be right and you have to do your part putting the shot into the vitals. Get a good rangefinder and use it. [/QUOTE]
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