| Title: | The Hunting Notesfile |
| Notice: | Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270 |
| Moderator: | SALEM::PAPPALARDO |
| Created: | Wed Sep 02 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1561 |
| Total number of notes: | 17784 |
Hello,
I just did "show key" and searched for .264, both of them came up
with zip. I *finally* got lucky in the antelope drawing here in
Colorado and now I'm looking (groveling) for advice.
Question: I shoot a .264 Win Mag and was wondering if anyone has
ever used this caliber on pronghorns. I am most interested in
velocity and bullet weight however, if you have a good story I'd
love to hear it.
My slug of choice (so far) is the Hornady 100 grn SP, my rifle
doesn't like the Sierra boattails of any weight and I would
prefer to use either H4831 or the IMR equivalent.
Comments? Suggestions? Put-downs?
'gards,
Bill
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| 189.1 | Hope This Helps | WFOV11::DRUMM | Fri Jul 29 1988 21:59 | 29 | |
re. .0 Congrats!!! on the Antelope tag!! hope you fill it.
Never shot one of them 264s before. I looked it up in my book
of Balistic tables ans found it to be a pretty good shooter. The
only load I see of interest to me for your type of hunt is using
the Nosler 125gr Spitzer Partitioned bullet. With 60gr of H4831
you will get about 3000fps at the muzzle. The trajectory for that
is as follows:
Drop in inches with gun sighted in at 300 yards:
100 200 300 400 500 Yards
+3.9 +4.7 0.0 -11.2 -30.2 Drop +-
2760 2532 2315 2109 1914 Velocity
21.3 18.0 15.3 12.8 10.6 Energy ft lb per grain
Looks like a good shooter out to 400 yards, good energy all
the way out to 500 yards with 1325 ft lbs, but beyond that
your hold over could be a real guessing game.
Like I said, never shot one of these before so take what I say
as you wish. If you shoot it straight it'll do the job.
Good luck and good shooting.
Steve
color_me_gone_to_the_nationals :^) :^) :^) :^)
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| 189.2 | Gracias | PIECES::WITCHEY | rode hard and put up wet | Wed Aug 10 1988 19:53 | 7 |
Thanks, your tables don't match the tables I have available, but
I don't have the Nosler book. According to my slipstick, it should
do the job nicely. I cranked up some 100 grain loads using 68.0
of H4831 as an arbitrary starting point and then it rained so hard
that the target wouldn't stick to the backing.
So thanks again, I'll crow like a rooster if I get one!
Regards,
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