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.243 Win and light cup-and-core bullets. I've seen more elk lost to .243's than probably all other cartridges combined.
Adults get one for their kids thinking they are doing them a favor due to the light recoil. My personal opinion is this combination is not a great choice to begin with and better for experts than novices.
Coyote Hunter - NRA Patriot Life, NRA Whittington Center Life, GOA, DAD - and I VOTE!
No, I'm not a Ruger bigot - just an unabashed fan of their revolvers, M77's and #1's.
A good .30-06 is a 99% solution.
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stay on trails and on flat easy to travel ground
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The big one around these parts is riding in the truck all day and drinking beer
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Strip joints, never saw a elk in a strip joint
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Ha! Good one! (Now I don't have to type the same thing!)
Wade
"Let's Roll!" - Todd Beamer 9/11/01.
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Yes, sleep in in the mornings and get back to camp well before dark each evening.
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Strip joints, never saw a elk in a strip joint
Used to have a friend who was an elk. He said that during conventions, the strip joints were full of elk.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Us ethe biggest, most powerful cartridge you can buy with the toughest bullet and then take any shot presented. Then cry bullet failure or super tough elk when th eelk crawls off and dies in some hell hole from being wounded and not found Sounds like the elk was killed though....
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I took a friend elk hunting in area 6B south of flagstaff. He showed up with a Rem 7400 in 30/06...not a bad choice. The he started loading 55g Accelerators in the Magazine.
Lucky I carried an extra rifle.
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Here is one of my favorites for archery elk hunters spend 3 weeks before the season bugling and educating all the elk in a 5 mile radius and laugh and tell your buddies how many bulls you called. And you can complain all season because the elk quit talking. You just can't understand what happened.
Last edited by ehunter; 08/24/10.
If there is any proof of a man in a hunt it is not whether he killed a deer or elk but how he hunted it.
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This is easy....
1- Get drunk every night
2- Sleep in until noon each day
3- Road hunt (never leave your truck)
4- Watch those meadows... One is going to come by sometime.
5- Wear the loudest pants you can find.
6- Make sure your boots make noise with each step as well.
7- Run that ATV all day long. Elk dont mind them.
8- Be sure to call from the ATV as well.
9- Never leave camp.
10- Be sure to hunt within 100 yards of a road max.
11- Leave the bino's at home. An elk is huge, dont need them.
12- Walk open ridgelines...
13- Dressed head to toe in the latest bright orange fad.
14- Ignore the wind, elk have no nose.
15- Show up out of shape. Round is a shape, right?
16- Backpacking is for geeks and dweebs, dont do it.
17- Make sure to only shoot your rifle off the comfy confines of a bench.
18- Hell, dont even bother shooting your rifle.
19- Show up with a two pack a day smoking habit. Elk country is flat.
20- If you screw up and leave camp, be back two hours before dark. Cant be getting caught in the big bad forest at night.
This should get you started to tag soup....
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+1 on the meadow-watching.
My wife and I did some VERY careful scouting (via spotting scope) of some distant parks some years ago. We got up way before dawn on opening day and hiked into the likeliest park, into the wind, easing up to the edge just about shooting light.
There was a pickup parked on the other side of the park, in full view, the wind blowing right from the pickup into the park. Through our binoculars we could see two guys in orange sweatshirts drinking coffee. They had to have driven at least 1-1/2 miles illegally, off-road, to get there.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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Easier said than done for some of us. Losing weight is not always an absolute.
By the way, in case you missed it, Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
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+2 on meadow watching. Watched a huge meadow SE of Mt. St. Helens one season that look just kept filling up with elk daily. I've never seen so many in one place in Washington.
Day before opening day the meadow had so many camps around the perimeter the elk would have needed tanks to break through the line!
Well, it was fun watching the elk in August anyway.
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Cover as much ground as possible and blow a deer grunt call loudly as you move. The elk will just assume you are a big horny deer and they may get curious enough to come take a look.
" A little solitude is a mighty precious thing "
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Drive your beater Toyota 5 miles off road to get to the only flat bench in the canyon, then cut half a cord of firewood with a chainsaw for the camp fire the night before the season opens. Nevermind that the elk herd had been hanging out all summer 200 yards from your camp, and the guys that had busted butt scouting and doing it the right way are trying to think of a good story about how a beater Toyota looked like a bull elk until they got several magazines of 30-06 into it before they realized their mistake... Note to self: Don't buy a beater Toyota and take it West to hunt. It just might develop the Idaho strain of 30-06itus. And leave chainsaw at home LOL. Sorry about your busted hunt kcn, but your post tickled my funny bone. 
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Just to add a little East Tennessee twist (on the whitetail side)...walk into the woods about 30 minutes AFTER daylight making as much noise at Sherman's Army, find the first hunter you can and climb a tree 10 yards away from him while hanging a flashlight around your neck in the on position and then yell obsenities because THAT guy is in your hunting spot....
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Shoot them in the jaw. Don't ask -- but I know this!
Hike in early, quietly, in the dark -- and wait for the hum of an atv just before light. If not brought in to retrieve game (mid day) their should be a rule that if you can find one and have it hanging in a tree by 9 am, it's yours. Especially if it was driven off the legal path.
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