Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Tough few days on the elk

My 2 nephews, myself, and a few friends had some good success to wrap up the elk season.

Youngest nephews first bull, 90 yards with his 7-08 bull made it 5 yards:



Next day oldest nephew, 100 yards with his 7-08, bull made it 10 yards:



A couple days later, found some cows and a myself and a buddy each got one, mine with a 7 RM his with a 6.5 RPM:



My friend with his:



Finished up with 2 friends from ND yesterday, both shot with 7 RM's from the same herd, weather sucked:





Had enough elk hunting for the year, but will be ready again in 2023.

Congratulations to all of you! Especially for the young folks! memtb

Soooooo Jealoussssssss lol

Looks like so much fun and a big congratulations to everyone.

Looks like a PERFECT CHRISTMAS to me.

All public land I presume…

All 4 cows on BLM, youngest nephew's on State, oldest nephew's on private.

Funny how you only hunt where it counts.

You are such a tool. You don’t like how I hunt elk and yours is the only acceptable way.

Remember your criticism of my fall?




Buzzh:

Because elk hunting used to be an entire different experience in Montana. There was no reason to hunt wheat stubble and private for a couple reasons.

1. There weren't that many elk on private and when they got on private the first person that knocked on the door got permission to hunt.

2. The hunting on public land was exceptional.

So, when some dude that has access to some great private wants to brag about how great the elk hunting is in their Montana fish bowl/ private wheat field it's a misrepresentation of what's happened here.

If shrapnel is such a bad ass elk hunter, ask him to hunt Mineral, Missoula, or Sanders county on public for elk. The report back would be much different.

Congrat's Buzz!

Just go hunt elk in Missoula, Mineral, or Sanders county on public land, tuffie. You wouldn't have a prayer without wheat fields and private access.

I've shot 83 elk, last, and only one on private land was 1985 near Avon Montana on Neil Dana's land when I was in highschool.

Takes a pretty special kind of a$$hole to carve their name on a historic site...and ruin a thread with youth elk hunters success.

About your style though...

Buzz and I have had our disagreements but Shrap calling someone else a tool is laughable, at most.

Nice work Buzz. I knew what I was leaving when I transferred out of Wyoming. I sure do miss those general elk hunts near Bondurant. Were those bulls killed on a draw?

You continue with your presumption of eliteness and you are no better than those you criticize.

My fall was equally as productive, but you tore it apart because of your perception of how much better you think you are.

It isn’t as fun to be criticized as it it to be critical, is it?


The lie about the historic site feeds your shallow ego. You are nothing but a braggart, critical of anyone contrary to your methods…

Context matters, and you were making a claim that elk hunting all across Montana is just great. It's not and comparing blasting elk in a wheat field to what public land elk hunters are experiencing in Montana is a bigger joke than you are.

Painting with that broad brush of yours while starring through those rose colored glasses of yours with your crossed eyes.

Apparently the FS found some truth to your carving...what did that cost you?

Awesome

What bullet do you use in the 7 08

Thanks
Congratulations

I load 120 grain nosler ballistic tips for the oldest nephew and he's killed 4 elk with them, all one shot kills from 75-235 yards.

The youngest nephew is still trying to shoot up the 5 boxes of factory 139 grain interbonds in his tikka 7-08. Once he plows through those, which shoot about an inch at 100 yards, I'll work up a load with 140 accubonds.

My wife and I have shot 25 or so elk with our 7-08's using 140 grain accubonds.

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You might try and find that ever happened. You continue to perpetuate that lie and haven’t witnessed anything about it, and keep pushing it.


No desecration, no fine…

Yep, draw.

The rest of the season was pretty good too.

Those general elk tags ON PUBLIC land in Wyoming are a fun time, but you made the right call transferring, you could always move back someday. I enjoy your photos you post from your new state of Residence, you're making it count.

I killed this raghorn and the other 2 guys in camp both shot cows all on public land:





Filled my first cow tag with my late grandfathers model 70 in 300 WM, had not shot that rifle since 1998 or 1999. Oh, and shot on public land as well, so shrap doesn't cry.

You posted pictures of it with your name carved in the stone... but it was on private land, so undoubtedly the FS couldn't do anything about it.

Riggghhhtttt...and the elk hunting on public land in Montana is just awesome.

So it was someone else that carved your name on the historic site?

The elk hunting in Montana isn't the only thing you're in denial about.

Here is the sandstone rock face that has names and brands from over the years, i did scratch my name in the rock along with all the others. Rock faces like this are all over the hills in eastern Montana. You haven't been there, but you make claims about fines and destruction that didn't happen

Nice animals Buzz! Looks like a great season.

Takes a special kind of stupid to deface something like that...what a moron. Truly unbelievable.

Yes, I've found all kinds of stuff like that in several states while working the past 37 years, including a bunch in Montana.

Can't say I've ever seen someone as irresponsible and ego-fueled as you, that they found it necessary to carve their names in them.

What a complete lack of character and respect to do something like that. Doesn't surprise me though...