Antelope will come right up to you - if you know how to make them come in.
All that gadgetry works on a static target, but what if they were grazing and moving? Sorry, sometimes you just have to work a little harder, get a little closer, and rely on YOUR skill as a hunter
Fitsac,I've lived in Northern Colorado since 1966.I shot my first pronghorn in 69,amd since,I have killed a LOT of them.Some years,I could buy two extra over the counter tags.I had access to near 4 sections of private land.Anytime during the year I can watch them,play with white rags,etc
They get a lot less curious opening day of rifle season,then there are the folks driving vehicles on the othe rside of the fence.
I really don't need for you to tell me anything about pronghorn hunting.FWIW,I get most of mine inside 250 yds,and I do "get closer". I usually fill opening morning.With a one shot clean kill.I glued Berber carpet on the knees and elbows of my hunting clothes to crawl through cactus.
I have already explained how I use my rifle and the ranges I shoot,more than once. I do it all with my duplex.I quit carrying the laser,etc. But I used the lazer and ballistic software to learn my rifle.
This thread is not about antelope hunting.The OP is asking about long range goat rifles.
Instead of assuming a morally superior position and telling him how to hunt,I did my best to give an honest answer to his question
The idea that some magic rifle makes anyone a long range shooter is barn carpet.
None of the magic whizmo cartridges "shoots flat" for ranges a whole lot more than 400,maybe 500 yds.(spare me,I know none of them "shoot flat")
It may very well be that you are one of the many who is not competent to use "the gadgets" and the ballistic skills Thats OK. A man's got to know his limitations.My Sierra ballistic software came on floppy discs and its loaded in an H-P 386 SX Dos computer.Thats about the time I learned ranging with a mil-dot.That was a while ago.I passed on all I learned to this brother.
I'll explain it to you again.I am not an advocate of long range shooting at game.The OP asked about his 30-06 .
I told the story because to make a clean,one shot kill like that,you have to know the range. With a 308,a 25 yd error is too much.Northern Colorado,just south of Wyo,you have to know the wind.Its there. Ranging a goat through open space is not done with imaginary football fields.The winds will be there.Altitude matters.Uphill/downhill can matter.Temperature matters.
"Hold about three feet high and a body length left ,I think...its pretty far and his beard is blowing" is not the best way.
The people who know what they are doing,who are not counting on luck,use data and correct W+E with turrets before they shoot.
Brother hit the high lung shot behind the foreleg he was aiming at and the animal dropped. a RIFLEMAN with SKILLS can do that with a 308.And,FWIW,he did about 300 yds of crawling closer.Then he had open,exposed ground to cross. They would see him.So he set up his shot.
And the guy who thinks his .257 Weatherby or 6.5 by 416 Rigby shoots flat or holds over a bit isn't in the league to confidently make a 653 yd one shot kill with no "gadgets" Buying any rifle does not give you skills.
The 308 isn't a "long range rifle" Its a"Normal Range Rifle"
Its the Rifleman who has long range skills. That is my point to offer the OP.