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My first goat taken with the .223 WSSM was a young buck within legal kid goat size (horn length). He was angling across a shallow draw and moving directly across me from right to left at a bit under 100 yards. He had just cleared a fence and seemed to be more interested in what was following him than he was in me. Shooting off a set of Bog Pod sticks, I saw my shot hit just behind the shoulder, about mid-body. The antelope reacted much like those whitetail had during the late season doe hunt in that cornfield, and after hunching up a bit, he just trotted over the ridge and out of sight. Moving up the draw quickly so as to get another crack at him, I now observed the animal going up a steep rise right to left. knowing that game in general won’t go uphill when hit hard, I clearly understood that this guy required an additional shot in the vitals. Round two hit him higher, and with the addition of that second bullet he went down hard. Both bullets had exited the back side of the critter, with the first hit taking out a lower section of lung and the second the top of his heart. In this case a shot inside 150 yards maximum (the second shot) had done a good job. Now, however, the question still remained: did the first round make him sick enough to fall to the second hit? I guess we will never know, but a subsequent pair of goats a few weeks later did shed some additional light on the subject.