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Post by dakota on Oct 5, 2006 9:18:37 GMT -5
My nephew and my oldest son will be coming up to stay this week end. Scouting on Friday and stalking on Saturday. Rifles are ready and so am I. Oh yeh, I drew for a two tag muzzle loader hunt in SD. I sorta wish I could take my new 11 pound plus iron sighted 45-90. (if Knights are allowed perhaps cartirdges using gray powder will be next.)
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Post by dakota on Oct 7, 2006 17:12:14 GMT -5
Well my son and I both shot a nice buck each, so far. We still have doe tags to fill.
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Post by Bill on Oct 7, 2006 22:04:06 GMT -5
I think that antalope will be my next project Dakota. Thats what my new .25-06 Ackley Improved is going to be for.
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Post by deputydon on Oct 7, 2006 23:08:29 GMT -5
Goats are fun to hunt and GOOD eatin'
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Post by dakota on Oct 7, 2006 23:33:34 GMT -5
I agree with you both. I think the 25-06 is the best factory round there is for the antelope. I have used mostly 6mm to 280. I think though the 25-06 would be better. The AI, I suspect would be great also, perhaps better. We drug our goats about 2 to 3 miles to the nearest road, walked to the truck, cigars and beer, then #1 son was ready to nap - seems he had not prepared himself for the 4:30 a.m. getting up.
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Gila
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and a Vernier sight. It's marked up to twelve-hundred yards. This one shoots a mite further.
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Post by Gila on Oct 11, 2006 12:09:20 GMT -5
Congratulations Dakota! Well done.. I'd like to see a picture or two!
Bill, I absolutely love my 25-06 AI. It's definately my favorite rifle. You'll find out you will get about 300 fps over the 25-06 Rem cartridge with the same bullet. I have ome information concerning the cartridge along with a little loading data on my personal website. Let me know if you would like me to send you the link. Or, I could post it if it was OK with the staff.
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Post by dakota on Oct 11, 2006 23:12:15 GMT -5
Both antelopes we shot had larger/longer horns than the one below. We are saving the head and plan on European mounts. I will take pictures when I get a digital camera.
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Post by Bill on Oct 14, 2006 18:10:46 GMT -5
I haven't brought the .25 AI home yet Gila as I was waiting for Dep Don to decide if he wanted my Browning B78 or not. Evedently not so the Browning is going towards the trade on the two new rifles along with the already traded Ruger 77 Varmint .25-06. Going to miss that rifle, it was a tac driver. Dakota, nice Antalope there. I'm thinking that this next year is going to be the year I go antalope hunting unless my grouse trip interfere's and then it will be grouse. ;D
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Post by dakota on Oct 15, 2006 21:33:40 GMT -5
I shot another goat today. The same load as before. The earlier one I shot while it was running at about 50 yards. This last one I over estimated the range and hit high in the shoulders. The second shot went through the leg bone entered the chest just behind the heart and traveled through the goat to just behind the rib cage on the far side. The range was 400 meters - I stepped off 440 steps. This time the bullet did not seem to expand, it exited and I would have to push my finger to get it through the hole. I guess expecting a standard bullet to perform as an expensive bullet is not going to make it happen. But the goat is dead and will soon be in my freezer and then to the grill. Now, I have two muzzle loader tags for deer to fill and two high power rifle tags for deer to fill - all white tail. The mule deer were out in force today. Most were does and fawns but there were a coupld of nice bucks, the biggest was a 4 point (4x4).
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Gila
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and a Vernier sight. It's marked up to twelve-hundred yards. This one shoots a mite further.
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Post by Gila on Nov 2, 2006 12:43:41 GMT -5
Just for my own information, what bullet were you using that failed to expand?
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Post by dakota on Nov 2, 2006 16:05:43 GMT -5
When I shot the close goat at about 50 yards it was explosive, perhaps. At 400 meters it went through the goat breaking the goat's leg bone which is, in my experience much tougher than a deer leg, through a rib and through the goat traveling perhaps 30 inches and then exiting. The bullet was an old Nosler 150 grain solid base - precursor to the ballistic tip, I think.
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Gila
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and a Vernier sight. It's marked up to twelve-hundred yards. This one shoots a mite further.
Posts: 622
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Post by Gila on Nov 2, 2006 20:19:26 GMT -5
Wow, I have had good luck with the Nosler Solid Base boattail bullets in the past. I only quit using them because they stopped making them. I would only guess that the jacket was a little to thick to expand at the lower velocities. I would still think that once it hit a bone, it would expand, Although a pronghorn's bones are retatively small, they are still bone and should have forced the buellet to expand I would have though. Sounds like it's time to load up some new (somthing different) before your next hunt, I'd say..
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