Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting 7MM-08 for my first elk hunt?

My family and I have been shooting 7-08's for the last several years...mostly 140 accubonds.

My wife has killed 2 bull elk with her 7-08, both 6 point bulls.

This one was feeding with 5 other 6 points shot was 202 yards, shot behind the shoulder. The bull slowly turned downhill after the shot, and stumbled about 5 yards and dead:



A couple years later, 106 yards bedded quartering toward us. She shot him on the point of the shoulder, exited about 8 inches behind the off shoulder, broke the on-side shoulder:



My brother shot this bull in Montana with my 7-08 and 140 AB's...487 yards behind the shoulder slightly quartering away, bull went maybe 50 yards and dead:



Recovered the bullet just under the hide in front of the off shoulder: