Antelope Season here in Wyoming Area 7, goes from Oct 1-15. Fifteen days, leaving 350 days to wait for Oct. 1st, Plenty of time to get ready, but how?
Find a range: This is an abandoned gravel pit on blm land, 2 miles from the house. You can get 2000 plus yards.
Set out a target, then drive all over the area, stop, range the target, adjust for light and wind, and shoot. Move to another spot, different angle, different range, repeat, and repeat again. As often as posable, you have 350 days.
Do this on windy days, sunny hot days, cold rainy or snowing days (this is Wyoming, you find such days during antelope season, this year it snowed so far, every month of the year. I think its silly to restrict your practice to fair weather days.
I got some full size antelope targets from MidwayUSA. They are fun, this one was shot at different ranges from 300-800 yards. Using my Model 70 6.5 and Savage 338 LM.
A heck of a lot of fun. Im not pushing for extreme long range 600+ antelope hunting, but IMO this certainly helps my chances at 300 or so yards.
It builds confidence in you and your rifle/load.
Another little hint: I carry a Smith J-frame loaded with bird shot. More then once, while crawling up a hill stalking critters I came nose to nose with rattlers.
Find a range: This is an abandoned gravel pit on blm land, 2 miles from the house. You can get 2000 plus yards.
Set out a target, then drive all over the area, stop, range the target, adjust for light and wind, and shoot. Move to another spot, different angle, different range, repeat, and repeat again. As often as posable, you have 350 days.
Do this on windy days, sunny hot days, cold rainy or snowing days (this is Wyoming, you find such days during antelope season, this year it snowed so far, every month of the year. I think its silly to restrict your practice to fair weather days.
I got some full size antelope targets from MidwayUSA. They are fun, this one was shot at different ranges from 300-800 yards. Using my Model 70 6.5 and Savage 338 LM.
A heck of a lot of fun. Im not pushing for extreme long range 600+ antelope hunting, but IMO this certainly helps my chances at 300 or so yards.
It builds confidence in you and your rifle/load.
Another little hint: I carry a Smith J-frame loaded with bird shot. More then once, while crawling up a hill stalking critters I came nose to nose with rattlers.
. We do this work off the ground via a day pack or bipod, o bench work for this practice. 
