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Anyone heard of the 284 Roy?

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Originally Posted by ingwe
Originally Posted by Jeff_O
Elk- killin' Montana bastids... grin... Y'all need to SUFFER for your elk like the rest of us! grin


My wife went elk hunting yesterday with her brother ( I don't hunt them anymore...I don't EVER wanna see another one of those bastids dead on the ground..)
They took off before 6 am, tracked and killed one pretty quickly...about 8;30 ( The BIL got him...)

In only 12 more hours of slogging through the snow, pulling a sled laden with quarters...my wife got home...


She looked like she suffered enough... wink


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Well brutha, our Oregon elk are just as hard to pack. For our east-side hunts (the ones most guys hunt), the hunt is a 5-day affair and success rates are generally quite low... A guy killing an Oregon public-land elk is doin' good to average (1) every 6 years...

That's suffering <g>. BTDT.

I really, really want to hunt Montana sometime. I like everything about it. Game numbers seem good, seasons long, visibility is there so you can actually glass... Looks pretty cool.

Good for you guys. I'm sure it's not by accident that you live there.



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Originally Posted by SU35
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but I tend to think that the 270 is overkill on elk.....grin


I don't know about that, I've always thought the 270 as being a little light in the loafers.


Please guys dont generalize all 270 caliber rifles as the same. The 270 WSM and the 270 Weatherby Mag have a pretty significant horsepower gain over their predecessor the 270 win.

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I have yet to see the elk that would die from a .270 WSM or .270 Weaherby bullet that would only be wounded by a .270 Winchester.


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Way to go and bring logic into a rifle loonie deal, Mr. Mule Deer.
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JB, didn't you write something not too long ago about the riskiness of neck shots? I wonder if the assumed inadequacy of the .270 isn't related to a poor neck hit.


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Elk are not bulletproof BUT many hunters are lousy shots, can't stalk, don't know how to use camo or wind, are out of shape, most don't know wild Elk are "creatures of the night", can't shoot off improvised rests or from standard 4 positions.
If you can't get within 300 yards of an Elk and kill it with a 270, 308 or 30-06 using today's ammo, you don't belong afield.

A big boomer and a huge scope don't make up for the hunter's failings.

My new Elk stick that will get a 2.5-10x32 Nightforce in SK mounts next week.

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Originally Posted by Mule Deer
I have yet to see the elk that would die from a .270 WSM or .270 Weaherby bullet that would only be wounded by a .270 Winchester.


I agree a lethal kill is a lethal kill. However there is more than one way to skin a cat, or should I say more than one knife.

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Originally Posted by oldman1942
My new Elk stick that will get a 2.5-10x32 Nightforce in SK mounts next week.


Nice rig. Is that the Benelli R1?


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Originally Posted by Mark R Dobrenski
Ah we're not ganing up on him, us 270 hardheads don't do that till people actually have experience on elk with the round. Then we center them in our sights... smile

Dober



They even do that with guys that HAVE experience...and are already using a proper elk cartridge...

Like the 7x57!!! laugh

Or the ".270 Improved"...the .280 grin



And Dober...BTW: DON'T tell my wife where the elk are...or we are gonna have WORDS...!!!! grin


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Oh my gosh, I think that has to be the ugliest rifle I've ever seen.
Right up there with Salvage.


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SU-me thinks he's pimping us, right...?

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Yup..sorta a cross between a Rem 740 and a violin, but one mans meat, another mans poision.
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I'd like to know if the fellas a east coaster and or a west coaster? Just curious is all.

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Dang Mark, I reckon so! One thing for sure, that's a pimp's rifle.

LOL!

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Originally Posted by Jeff_O
I really, really want to hunt Montana sometime.



Good for you guys. I'm sure it's not by accident that you live there.





Well, for a couple of us, yeah maybe........(laughin')

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Originally Posted by SamOlson
Originally Posted by Jeff_O
I really, really want to hunt Montana sometime.



Good for you guys. I'm sure it's not by accident that you live there.





Well, for a couple of us, yeah maybe........(laughin')


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You have confused Montana with Yellowstone Park in September. Public hunting there is not so easy. Still, it's a great place to try. You should put in for the draw sometime.


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Oldman1942, am sure that's an efficient killing tool, but that's positively the ugliest hunting rifle I've ever seen. An sure there's one worse than that - w/ a plastic stock.

Life's too short to hunt with an ugly rifle...

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