Thread: 7.62x39 or 357mag/38special for goats and similar sized animals

.357 will do out to 100 ok.
Other option if you aren't shooting many goats is to buy some .308 ammo from Belmont. Some stuff is around $2 per round, perhaps cheaper if you buy in bulk.
By the time you buy a new rifle that equates to a fair few $2 .308 rounds and then if it doesn't like the cheap ammo you'll be paying that much per round anyway.

If you were shooting quite few goats and the odd deer .223 not a bad way to go.