.405 Winchester

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Originally posted by dadsbuckshot
That true - it was Ol' Teddy's favorite (Big Medicine) Gun...

I am just wondering if it would do too much damage to a soft skinned game such as the prong.

Dadsbuckshot, the 405 win will do far less meat damage that any od the 30 cal from 308 up. when you shoot the pronghorn try for the heart/lung area, and stay off the large bones, like spine, and shoulder. These bones turn into handgrenade shrapnel, and bloodshot a lot od meat. The one thing you need to do is find a place where you can practice at from 100 yds , out to 250yds, because pronghorn rarely let you get closer. Make a life size cutout of a pronghorn from cardboard, and shoot at it no shorter than 100 yds, and preferably at 200 yds, from hunting positions. When you get so you can place five shots in a row on the kill zone of the chest, you are ready!

For a side, the rifle Teddy called "BIG MEDICINE" was a H&H double rifle chambered for 500/450 NE given to him by a group of English business men! The 405 Win was an 1895 winchester, and Teddy found it lacking on Africa's game, and wounded lots of game with it in 1909! His favorite rifle was a 1903 Springfield bolt rifle, chambered for 30-06! He killed most of the plains game he took in Africa with his Springfield!

Good luck on your prong hornhunt !