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Bunch of great looking elk folks.

I'll second-the-motion on that!

L.W.

Some great looking bulls guys!

Some of these threads just crack me up!

My brother in law with his first bull. Taken with a .308 and a 208gr AMAX.

Another bruiser bull

The photo is obviously very personal, thanks for sharing.

Great photos fellas, thanks for sharing. I'm guessing that it has more to do with the "driver" than the "vehicle". Just a hunch though

Rancho, the picture was taken in late Nov. in 1973. The vehicle is a 1956 Willey's Jeep station wagon. They were the deal back then. That's my uncles, but we had one too. Very few hunters had 4 wheel drive back then, so if you did you had a big advantage. You could drive anywhere you wanted. These also had PTO winches on the front. I got out when my uncle let this jeep down off a cliff with the winch, to retrieve a big bull. The convertible is a MG midget. The porch to the house is what your looking at, which is over-looking the Bitterroot valley. My uncle had just finished the house.

Great bulls here. Thanks to all for sharing.

Take your pick, either will kill and elk just dandy, just make sure you use a good tough bullet such as Interbonds,GMXs, Accubonds, Partitions, E-Tips, A-Frames, Sciroccos, TSXs or TTSXs, Trophy Bonded Bear Claws, Oryxs, etc.

+1

A 30-40 Krag killed a zillion Elk, a 7x57 killed a zillion much bigger things with bullets far inferior to todays'.
Put a 140 TSX in the 7-08 or a 168 TSX in the 308 and you can kill any Elk that walks at any range an ethical hunter would chose to shoot.

That's so cool. Wifey loved the picture, too.

I'd take the .308 with a good 180 grain bullet.

Nothing wrong with hunting elk with a 7mm-08 but since I have a choice...I'd take the 308.

Can't speak from personal experince on the 7-08 on elk, but an old friend who still gets up the mountain has thumped a bunch of elk using a 7X57 with 175gr factory soft points and 160gr Partitions over the years. Every elk steak ever served at his table was compliments of a 7X57 or one of our 308 WCF's.
My dad used a Sako Forester in 308 WCF for years and my uncle still uses a Savage 99 in 300 Savage with factory 180's for elk.
How times have changed.. I brought the first magnum to camp back in 1978, it was Remington 700 BDL 7 mm Mag with a Redfield Widefield 3-9X I had purchased in the Navy Exchange. Everyone busted my balls over my "cannon" (it did light up the sky when touched off near the end of legal shooting light), after 10 days up and down the mountains (by then it made my M-60 back at LeJeune feel like a featherweight), when it came time my hunting partner (an old ranch hand on my uncles ranch) used his M-71 to flatten a 5X6 slipping into the timber less than 75 yards ahead of us while I was getting the "cannon" unslung.
My vote goes for the 308 as I have 3 different Sako 308 WCF's in the safe.
Sorry for the rambling....

7mm-08 is way more pricey to buy than 308.

Got something to back that claim up with? I can't tell the difference in cost.

Are you talking about brass and factory ammo, I hope so, because rifles chambered in either cost the same, brass is more expensive but when you can reload them at least 5 times, what the hell's the difference? Also, you can always just buy and neck down 308 brass if cost is really a huge concern. As far as factory ammo goes, there's about a seven dollar per box difference, but I wouldn't let that stop me from getting a rifle in a caliber I want. So, I'd say for the guy who doesn't reload or want to learn, get a 308, anyone else, get the 7MM-08 if it makes 'ya happy.

I am not an Elk hunter because of where I live, This thread made me want to hunt an elk. I dont know 4100fps but I bet that picture explains a bit why he is the man he is today.Its really great
Hank