Thread: How much Rifle Bling for a tahr hunt

Tahr are not like normal feral goats, ferals easy to kill at any distance with a .243, Tahr, are not. If you have a solid grasp of anatomy and placement requirements, and run a suitable tough pill for 250yds and an alternate pill for beyond that, a .243 is just adequate/marginal. A bullet like the Hornady 87gn Hp will work past 200yds, the 95gn SST, 90gn Swift, 90gn Hotcor (and a few others too) up close. I like the Seirra 85gn Hp (inside 300) as a tough good killing bullet, but can't use it in tandem with the Hornady 87gn Hp cause I can't tell them apart loaded.

If you shoot Tahr often, you can make a .243 work, if not- bring something more suitable. If that first shot is cocked up, Tahr turn into the hardest damn thing to kill you ever struck, a feral will sit down and complain untill you give it another pill, a Tahr will go "fuck you!" and exit stage left quick time.