Speed goats vs match bullets.

[MTGunner]

Anyone handloading match bullets for thin skin pronghorn? Not a debate. Merely a question. MTG

 

[hunterjmj]

I shoot match bullets for deer/elk and use them for antelope too. I don't specifically load for antelope though. Always kills them. I've shot them with .243, 300wm and 6.5 cm.

 

[voltage]

Yes, no problems to note.

 

[ShooterGrade]

I haven't gotten to hunt pronghorn yet but I plan on using match bullets when I get the chance!

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

Put them into vitals and watch them flop.

 

[voltage]

Yes, no problems to note.

One small correction... I did shoot one at 455 with a 208 ELDM out of a 300 PRC and it looked like a pencil went through him, but he died expeditiously so oh whale.

 

[Ucsdryder]

I think you could kill one with a BB gun if you could get the speed up. Match bullets are deadly. Stay away from the shoulders, no reason to mess up what little meat there is. 4-5” behind the crease and they’ll probably run 20-30 yards in 1.5 seconds and fall over dead.

 

[frogman43]

Loading 147 ELDM's in the new 6.5 PRC Koda rifle for this year.....friends swear by them so we'll see. The accuracy is surely there!

Two rounds on a steel plate at 350 yards after zero and resetting the Zero Stop on the scope.





Now I just need to do my part!

 

[TxLite]

Loading 180 hybrids this year in my 7prc for Antelope. No personal experience with them on game, but have been told they will work great

 

[justin davis]

Use the 108 ELDMs on Pronghorn

 

[Brandon.miller.4]

No hesitations for match bullets here. Eldx, eldm, and bergers have worked better for me than accubonds I was previously using. Better as in a much more rapid death. Smallest critter I've killed was a mule deer. Largest being 2 caribou

 

[MT-nuffgun]

Anything you would use on a coyote you can use on an antelope. We have killed them with v-max bullets out of a 22-250 and .223 rem. It’s been my experience antelope are soft and they do not have much of a will to live.

 

[MHWASH]

I think it depends on the match bullet. I killed a antelope doe and a couple of coyotes with the 120 Matchking. Looked like the bullet zipped through with no expansion. This was out of my .260. This year I killed my bear with a 130 ELDm out of my 6.5CM. Like mentioned above, stay off the shoulders.

 

[rabbithuntr]

No goats but the 147 eldm has worked great on deer for me in my creed.


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[Commutair]

Match bullets are good enough on lopes

 

[Sandstrom]

I shot three antelope last year with Berger hybrid hunter 168 grn 308 win. Two were pass throughs broad side in the vitals at 420 and 560 yards. One was a buck shot head on in the chest at 200 yards, that bullet was found under the hide in the rear quarter. All three went around 20 yards.
Ryan

 

[Sykes]

I'm loading the 135 Berger hybrid in my 25 prc. 3150 fps should do the trick this fall on my antelope and mulie

 

[Rich M]

As long as it will expand when it hits, have at it.

I like my old style Pro Hunters.

 

[zrodwyo]

I’ve shot antelope with 140 eldm, 143 eld-x, berger 140 hybrids, 162 eld-x, 180 hybrids, 215 hybrids and 230 hybrids. Most work just fine.

The 230 zipped through the antelope with zero expansion. It ran a long way but eventually dropped.

Personally, I don’t think antelope die easier than anything else - they are just easier to find when they run off.

 

[archeryisking]

We (being Americans) shoot match bullets exclusively through all of the sniper platforms overseas. I was told once by an instructor that we don't doubt match bullets on predators that shoot back, why would we doubt them on prey?