Try a 139 gr Hornady SST. You should get good velocity and a flat shooting load. They will be a little bit explosive at short range (100 yards or less). Most of the antelope I have shot have been between 150 and 350 yards. This bullet should work well at those ranges and I get good groups with it.
If you can be sure your shots are beyond 200yds, just about any cup/core bulet that shoots well in your rifle will do. Me, I like to sneek close when I can so I want a bullet that won't come apart. I would look into the 140gr Nosler AB, Partition or NorthFork, but that's me. The SST is way to fragile @ 7mag vel. I won't even shoot them in my .280.
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Posts: 7752 | Location: kalif.,usa | Registered: 08 March 2001
Shot a 'lope a couple of weeks ago with a 7mag loaded with 160 AB's. Nice quarter size hole in one side and out the other. Needless to say he didn't move after he was shot.
Posts: 322 | Location: Three Forks, Montana | Registered: 02 June 2005
Reach up on the shelf and try one. It doesn't take alot to put a goat down. My 7 mag 'lope bullet is the 140 grain Barnes TSX. Not because a goat needs a TSX, it's because that's the only bullet that this gun likes.
Factory loaded rounds in all weights and bullet styles are used by the 1000's every year to take antelope.
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Posts: 12753 | Location: Kentucky, USA | Registered: 30 December 2002
Originally posted by elkhunter: Try a 139 gr Hornady SST. You should get good velocity and a flat shooting load. They will be a little bit explosive at short range (100 yards or less). Most of the antelope I have shot have been between 150 and 350 yards. This bullet should work well at those ranges and I get good groups with it.
Yup and Ballistic tips work well too.
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Posts: 28849 | Location: western Nebraska | Registered: 27 May 2003
I've shot most my antelope with either a Hornady 139 gr BTSP or a Hornady 162 gr BTSP. Both group well in my rifle. The only reason I switch is that sometimes I've got an elk tag to fill in the fall and I like the 162's for elk and I don't have to re-sight.
Mac
Posts: 1638 | Location: Colorado by birth, Navy by choice | Registered: 04 February 2001
Well, I shot my doe antelope at about 135 yds with a 140 gr Ballistic Tip, over 67.5 grs of Re 22. It punched a nice big hole all the way through, breaking ribs on both sides, with about a two inch exit. Suprisingly, she managed to run for about 100yds before collapsing. Left a really big blood trail, too!
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Posts: 250 | Location: North Dakota | Registered: 06 January 2005
I have killed 3 so far this year, My wife and I have to shoot 4 more. Core-Lokts work fine!! At any range. She uses a 7MM-08 and I use a 270. They are not hard to kill!
Posts: 1072 | Location: Pine Haven, Wyo | Registered: 14 February 2005
Back in the 60s my uncle who shot expert in the Army put Antelope down at about any distance he wanted to with his old .270 uaing a 130 grain bullet. A friend uses a .243 wih a 100 grain bullet. I used to lay in the weeds at a water hole with the old 30/30 170 grain corlokt and down them that way. I imagine just about any bullet in the 7MM mag would work!
Posts: 671 | Location: none | Registered: 14 February 2005
Lots of good bullets out there...I like a little heavier bullet for long range shooting in the windy areas where antelope are hunted..I would opt for a 160 gr. NOrthfork or Nosler...
That said, where I hunt Antelope in Southern Idaho, I have used a 6x45 and old 75 gr. BarnesX for the last 10 years and have done very well indeed, every time I've drawn.....
Here's my 12 year old son and his first BG animal from a few weeks back... he crawled on his belly for almost an hour and made a one shot, 200 yard kill with a 53 TSX from a 223.
Back in the 60s my uncle who shot expert in the Army put Antelope down at about any distance he wanted to with his old .270 uaing a 130 grain bullet. A friend uses a .243 wih a 100 grain bullet. I used to lay in the weeds at a water hole with the old 30/30 170 grain corlokt and down them that way. I imagine just about any bullet in the 7MM mag would work!
