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<blockquote data-quote="kraigwy" data-source="post: 2222094" data-attributes="member: 12597"><p>I didn't know antelope were that hard. Anyway some one mentioned a host of some sort. I don't know about Oklahoma but in Wyoming they arnt that big. My 100 lb grand daughter has no problem tossing them on the back of the 4 wheeler. Two main things are a lite rifle and good range finder. Hard to estimate the range of those critters. You don't need a heavy caliber. 243 is perfect. But the rifle needs to be lite 6.5 lbs would be great. Heavy boots. Prickly pear is part of antelope hunting. I carry a J frame revolver with snake shot, more then once I came nose to nose with a rattler while crawling up to peek over a hill. No way would I take a decoy during rifle season. Decoys look like antelope. Hunters tend to shoot at a good distance and at 300 yards or so you can't tell if it's a decoy or antelope. Don't want your head on somebody's wall. Antelope are good eaten. But heat ruins them. Get them gutted and out of the field as quick as positive possible. You got time. Get some full size antelope targets and practice. Set them out at distance so you can learn your limits. I work our range site in days for out of state hunters. You'd be surprised at the people who can shoot little tiny groups at one hundred but can't hit the vital area of the antelope target at 300 yards.</p><p>If you shoot at one and he takes off at 100 miles an hour watch them run. I've had them run 100 yards like nothing was wrong to see them do a summersault because their heart and lungs were turned to jelly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kraigwy, post: 2222094, member: 12597"] I didn’t know antelope were that hard. Anyway some one mentioned a host of some sort. I don’t know about Oklahoma but in Wyoming they arnt that big. My 100 lb grand daughter has no problem tossing them on the back of the 4 wheeler. Two main things are a lite rifle and good range finder. Hard to estimate the range of those critters. You don’t need a heavy caliber. 243 is perfect. But the rifle needs to be lite 6.5 lbs would be great. Heavy boots. Prickly pear is part of antelope hunting. I carry a J frame revolver with snake shot, more then once I came nose to nose with a rattler while crawling up to peek over a hill. No way would I take a decoy during rifle season. Decoys look like antelope. Hunters tend to shoot at a good distance and at 300 yards or so you can’t tell if it’s a decoy or antelope. Don’t want your head on somebody’s wall. Antelope are good eaten. But heat ruins them. Get them gutted and out of the field as quick as positive possible. You got time. Get some full size antelope targets and practice. Set them out at distance so you can learn your limits. I work our range site in days for out of state hunters. You’d be surprised at the people who can shoot little tiny groups at one hundred but can’t hit the vital area of the antelope target at 300 yards. If you shoot at one and he takes off at 100 miles an hour watch them run. I’ve had them run 100 yards like nothing was wrong to see them do a summersault because their heart and lungs were turned to jelly. [/QUOTE]
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