Popped a nice Central New Mexico Pronghorn Saturday with my 338 Lapua at 615 yards. Inches-Minutes-Clicks and firing by the numbers made it possible. Called the shot good and when I go there, it was...went right through the shoulder, within an inch or two of my point of aim. 10.75 MOA dialed in. Load was 300 Sierra Matchking over 89.0 RE-25 in Lapua brass, annealed every firing, with a Federal 215 Match primer. Only downer on the who thing was he was quartering toward me more...when I thought he was broadside. Exit wound took some small intestine out a softball size hole. He did die very quickly...never took a step.
And yeah, yeah SamD...I wasn't using a Garand and using iron sights...wasn't using the steady hold factors either...bipod on the ground...but I did use IMC & the six steps. So let the harassment begin.
On a secondary note, my wife killed one too...but she had such a fit with the bipod on her 30-06 that she's converted! She ordered a GI sling for her Tikka today and is planning to shoot from positions so she won't get all those blood blisters from a bipod mashing her!
Here's mine:
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-David
Edgewood, NM
Nice looking pronghorn; how far was the shot taken at?
Congrats David,
Looks like a fair critter.
Sam
Quote from: BobABQ on September 14, 2009, 01:39:54 AM
Nice looking pronghorn; how far was the shot taken at?
615 yards, measured by a Leica LRF 1200 Scan. He was at 635 when I setup the shot. Had 11 MOA dialed in...final range call from my buddy Tony had him at 615 so I dialed back 1/4 MOA to 10.75 MOA from my 200 yard zero.
-David
Way to go man! O0
Congrats David!
Very nice pronghorn! The wide open spaces of NM make for great shooting/hunting experiences.
There is no doubt that what we teach at an AS will put meat on the table. ^-^ O0...and with less ammo expended. :)
What part of the state? I have yet to get get my pronghorn.
Dan:
We were the only two State Hunters on the ranch. There were also two landowner-tag hunters. Ranch is located directly north of Cedarvale, NM, which is a few miles northwest of Corona. From Cedarvale, it runs 14 miles north and at it's widest point is about 8 miles wide, although the place is irregularly shaped. Pounds Brothers Ranch is about 32,000 acres, 82% Private, 18% State Lease. The rancher asked Amy & I to hunt the west half of the place and the landowner-tag hunters had the east half.
By noon we had seen at least 80 Pronghorns, 6 of them being bucks. Great hunt.
-David