What have you taken pronghorn with?

nhenry said:
25-284 you say 👀 tell me more, Ernie
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Rear-Grip Kauger Arms single-shot action with a Blake 1-7T barrel (2-barrels for it: 25-284, and 25 PRC) switch-barrel set-up.
Both barrels are from Blake and they both have Cortina's Tuner Muzzle-Brake on them.
I just put a Burris XTR-III 3.3-18 scope on it.
The trigger is a dream, and I wonder, how many can guess what brand it is, but think BR, F-Class, 600/1K BR (really good hint).
I haven't started load development on either yet.
 
PJGunner said:
Only one. Got tired of being rejected in Arizona's draw and ent to a guided hunt on a landowner permit. Got my "goat" in the first half hour of the first day of the hunt. Rifle was a .270 Win. I picked up at a gun show. A Winchester M70 XTR with what I learned was a factory installed McMillan stock in the same shape as the M70 Featherweights. Price with a fairly decent scope was $400.00 and I bought it on impulse. Took it out the next day to the range and ran some 150 gr. Power Points through it, four 5 shot groups to b exact. First group was slightly under a half inch and the last from a fairly hot barrel was .80" The other two groups were in the middle of one and last group. That rifle is a keeper.

The "goat" was shot with a 150 gr. Nosler Partition at about 75 yards after about a half mile sneak/talk. The charge was with the long discontinued Wincher Magnum Rifle powder. (WMR). Accuracy was in line with the factory ammo and velocity 2880 FPS. THat works for me.
Paul B.
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Paul I have the same rifle that I bought new in 1986. I haven't tried any 150's in it but it shoots the 130 NBT over a healthy dose of AA3100 into about 3/4".
I haven't had the pleasure to hunt Pronghorn as there don't seem to be very many in Georgia. I would love to get the chance sometime though.
 
xphunter said:
357 Magnum, 44 Magnum, 7mm TCU, 257 Rob AI, 7mm-08, 284 Win, 6 Creed, 6.5 Creed, 25 Creed, 6.5-284, 260 Rem, 6.5 Leopard (WSM), 26 Nosler, 7mm WSM, 7mm SAUM, 280AI, 7mm RM, 7mmRM Improved, 6x47 Lapua, 6.5x47 Lapua, 308 Winchester, 6mm-284, and I think I might be leaving one or two out
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That is a large and varied assortment of cartridges!
Gotta love having options!
 
I am edited this post, since there are corrections I need to make.
All handgun kills with the exception of the 257AI, 7mm Remington Magnum, and the 6.5x47 L. The Ruger 77 in 257AI was the gun I used for my first ever big game hunt. The following year, I used a 14" Contender in 7mm TCU for antelope.
4-rifles and 4 buck antelope. I forgot one year I hunted with a Remington 40X 308 Win rifle, that I have since sold.
I have also used a 6.5x47L in a specialty pistol as well for antelope.
Options are nice, but I gave the 257 Roberts Ackley to a family that lost their guns in the fire, and the 7mm Remington mag, was a loaner for an article for Eastmans. The other rifle I do still have.
Some of the specialty pistols listed, are no longer in my possession, like the 7mm TCU Contender, 7-08 XP-100, 260 Remington and 6x47L MOA Maximum barrels. The 7 SAUM XP barrel is toast, and has been discarded, and it is now a 25 PRC.

Here is three of the guns mentioned above at 775 yards (2013)
7mmWSM with a Gen 1 Burris Eliminator
Sitting shot with a 308 Winchester MOA Maximum
Just a note, I no longer use Berger's for big game
Proof I have hunted with a rifle
This thread has been a fun journey down memory lane-Thanks for starting it
 
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Sorry, lost count. Raised in Wyoming, started pronghorn at 14 years old. 75 now! Probably the most memorable was a buck running flat out crossing at about 80 yards. I had been using a 7x57 to shoot jackrabbits all winter the year before, and those bunnies taught me about fast moving targets. The antelope lost it and did about 3 end-over-enders, heart/lung shot.
 
Living on Long Island, you just don't get many opportunities to shoot antelope. :D

But I did take the time to fly into Casper and do a combination pronghorn/PD hunt. I took a nice buck antelope @450yds with a 7STW and a 162gr A-Max. All the p-dogs went south at the little crack of a .221FB rifle.
 
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Have watched several hundred in Wyoming this week but have never killed one. However, if I ever had the opportunity I would probably use 25/06
 
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