I was hunting yesterday with Tristate Outfitters. I have hunted with them before and taken an elk, my father took his 3rd Pronghorn with them and has taken 3 elk and a mulie as well. They have outfits in 4 states now I believe. This time we hunted outside of Roy, NM which is south of Raton. My guide was Cody, a NM Game and Parks employee and trapper.

We glassed from the car and after a short stalk, decided we couldn't get any closer without spooking them so I took the shot. It was 283 yards lazed. Rifle is a Blaser R93 in .300 weatherby. I know its really too heavy for this but it's the barrel I know best. Ammo was WEatherby 165 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip.



It tentatively scored out at 80.5 based on the weakside horn.

This was supposed to be a 3 day hunt, but my father and a family friend were all done in under 5 hours!

Nice antelope! Well composed trophy photo as well.

Nice antelope and as Ann points out, a very nice photo. Don't apologize for using a 300 Weatherby on antelope. If it's what you shoot and you shoot it well, then it's the right gun to use.

Nice lope, and a nice pic.

Can you give us his measurements please?

Thx

MD

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Originally posted by Mark Dobrenski:
Nice lope, and a nice pic.

Can you give us his measurements please?

Thx

MD

I don't have exact measurements. He's at the taxidermist now for a shoulder mount. We measured 40.25" on the weak side horn. I believe length wise we got 15.75", and as you can see he has a lot of mass. So you can somewhat deduce measurements from that.

Hey, thanks for the motivation. We're heading to WY next Friday. I don't expect a goat that big but it gets me pumped.

Nice trophy. Forget about "apologizing" on the 300 Weatherby. If you shoot it well, it should go with you on your hunt. Period.

Can you be a bit specific on how the ballistic tip performed in your opinion?

Congratulations to a nice 'lop.
YO nailed him well.
I also interested in your bullet choice.
No problems with choosing BT for little antelopes but I am not familiar with the Weatherby 300 energy.
Figure its high,so what saved the bacon is that at 300y the bullet slowed down and behaved rather than getting smashed to mush.

I am constantly on the look out for a suitable long range bullet for my 300 RUM
Barnes X shoot well 1/2 MOA , but they pencil thu.I should maybe like a bit more opening up.
I dont think the BT would survive for me at 100y though.

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Originally posted by sheephunter:
Congratulations to a nice 'lop.
YO nailed him well.
I also interested in your bullet choice.
No problems with choosing BT for little antelopes but I am not familiar with the Weatherby 300 energy.
Figure its high,so what saved the bacon is that at 300y the bullet slowed down and behaved rather than getting smashed to mush.

I am constantly on the look out for a suitable long range bullet for my 300 RUM
Barnes X shoot well 1/2 MOA , but they pencil thu.I should maybe like a bit more opening up.
I dont think the BT would survive for me at 100y though.

try the accubond, 180 or 200. Mine likes the 200.

That is the entrance hole, it did not exit. All the energy was expended in the animal. As you can see it performed quite well. The goat was quartered towards me. They group very well for me (0.5 MOA) and are very consistant.

I really like the ballistic tips for thin skinned game. I've killed about 10 large game animals between deer and red stag with them with admirable results. I've never had anything run on me. Nothing has made it further than 3 yards or so past where they stood when I fired. For heavier stuff I use Barnes X. My father used Barnes X on his goat and it worked great but didn't expand at all. H has his .300 sighted for Barnes X for an upcoming trip and didn't wanna deal with resighting it.

Great goat, and the .300wby certainly did the job inspite of the NBT.

Thanks for the post. I'm heading out to Oklahoma next week hunting antelope and anything else that crosses my path. Been struggling with the decision of the 22-250 or the 300 win mag. After seeing your second picture, I think I'll take the 22-250. Sure wish I had my 243 sighted in.

Nice goat!

Congrats on your goat. I went down to eastern NM for an antelope hunt myself this weekend but just before I got to Roy on the drive down I saw one of the better antelope I have seen in that country. It was about 3 miles north of Roy and this goat was a STUD! Awesome sight.

Congrats on your goat.

DTH

Congratulations!

That's a very nice pronghorn indeed, and as has been pointed out, that's a great photo as well.

Any goat over 80 B&C is fine trophy.......

AD

Nice goat. My buddy and I just got back from Kemmerer, WY. I took two doe antelpe using my Sako in 6.5x55 and 120 grain NBTs. The NBTs worked great - both dropped as if hit by lightning. I got full penetration on the closer shot and recovered about 50% of the jacket under the offside skin behind the ribs. First shot was at 351 yds and the second at 294 (lazered). On the way home, we stopped at the new Cabela's store Lehi, UT where I bought 100 120 grain NBTs.

Nice goat!

What surprises me, though, is how green the vegetation is?? It sure does not look a lot like the NM I've seen, nor country where I have hunted pronghorn... What gives, tons of rain just recently, irrigation??
- mike

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Originally posted by mho:
Nice goat!

What surprises me, though, is how green the vegetation is?? It sure does not look a lot like the NM I've seen, nor country where I have hunted pronghorn... What gives, tons of rain just recently, irrigation??
- mike

I know! That's what I said, clearly my camo was all wrong.

Just an irregularly large amount of rain several weeks according to the guide.

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That is the entrance hole

Nice goat. Well done.

Jeff

Some parts of eastern NM have had better than 16" of rain in the past 6 weeks. Its as green as I have ever seen it in some places.

DTH

All the green sure looks fantastic. It must have been a joy to hunt pronhorn in what looks like the Garden of Eden, certainly a change from the normally parched lands. It even matches the colour of your Desert Shadow (?) camo pretty well, in spite of your misgivings in this respect... That, plus the fact that rain plays a significant role in determining horn growth, it sure looks like 2005 was the year to be hunting pronghorn in NM!
- mike

That's a great antelope! Bigger than mine that's for sure. I did get to see an 85 incher taken on a nearby ranch. Talk about a hawg! Only 15" long, but the mass, oh the mass.

Nice goat...how did the entry hole get so big? I used a BT once on goats in SD shot out of a 257 weatherby and had a similar hole on a few animals....mine was on the exit side. Glad I did not want to keep the cape. Anyhow...Well done!

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Originally posted by ROSCOE:
Nice goat...how did the entry hole get so big? I used a BT once on goats in SD shot out of a 257 weatherby and had a similar hole on a few animals....mine was on the exit side. Glad I did not want to keep the cape. Anyhow...Well done!

I think what happaned was that since the animal was quartered towards me, when the bullet hit the 1st rib it "splattered" taking the other ribs with it. Hence the bigger hole. Only explanation I can offer really.

Congratulations on a fine antelope. That is a great New Mexico speed goat.

I too just returned from hunting just west of Raton, New Mexico. We had a great hunt, just like last year.

My buck was much like yours, great heart shaped horns. Just a little shorter, about 14 inches.

My buddy killed a real atypical buck with the right horn not hooking over at all, just straight as a post. It green scored 81 points, it grossed close to 85 but had lots of deductions.

My dad killed a buck of a lifetime! He shot a buck that the outfitter had been chasing for three years. It green scores 88 points! Beautifull buck with almost no deductions at all. He shot it at 429 yards with a .257 Weatherby Mag. The 100 grain Ballistic Tip dropped it like a bolt of lightning!

I am a little surprised at the size of the entrance hole on your buck. Man, that is a huge hole. I once had an exit hole like that on an antelope using a 7mm Wby Mag and 154 Hornady Spire Points.

We shot all three of our bucks with .257 caliber Ballistic Tips this year and had great bullet performance.

Again, great buck!

For those who are marveling at the green foliage, take into account that New Mexico gets LOTS of rain in the summer. Last year the grass was WAY higher than this year.

R F

Beautiful Goat!
Nate