[Buffalobob]

Craigepo

Sorry about the delay in replying. I have been up on the Manti LaSal chasing elk.

The rifle has a 30 inch 1-8 twist barrel and shoots a Berger 115 grain bullet very well. It is trued FN mauser action with a Timney trigger in a Joel Russo stock. The scope is a Leupold VIII longrange 6.5-20X 50mm. To make 1K shots on antelope requires practice with your rifle. In the gun section of this forum is a post by me about my kids shooting F-class at 1K. I also shoot myself. As far as wind goes what I do is get up well before sunrise and drive to a place where I know there will be antelope at and beyond 1K and I set up my gear and wait for daylight. Most days in Wyoming you will get about an hour of very low winds right at daylight. So you need an antelope in the correct place when you have a level of wind that allows the shot -- usually less than 5 mph and hopefully around one mph.

This type of shooting is not happenstance. I work hard to get and make such a shot. If I was just interested in killing antelope I could fill the truck up in one day with antelope shot at ranges under 400 yards.