Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting The "backup/ loaner" rifle

for about 30 years our elk hunt group generally kept a marlin lever action 45/70 with a weaver 4x scope on it that was sighted dead on at 200 yards as the camp back-up elk rifle, standard load was a hard cast 350 grain bullet over a stiff load of 50 grains of IMR 4198 over a 215 federal primer . that rifle eventually was responsible for killing more elk than most of the hunter primairy arms and resulting several guys buying similar marlin 45/70s over the years

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