Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Is the 6.5 Creedmoor a 600 yard Elk cartridge?

Lil John,

I always like the guys that think there invincible and are beyond mistakes... Like Mary Poppins..Perfect in every way..

You had to have been a Second Lieutenant in the service,right?Your to good to be just maybe, an E-5...

Have a good one John Burns....

Jayco

E-3.

Interesting that we don't hear the boo/boo's of "short range" hunters....... Or bow hunters.

But yet they are so quick to say- "don't shoot past 201 yards because you could wound one!"

I think that the ideal elk weapon would have to be the TOW missle with a effective range of 3000 meters, tripod mounted, no recoil and so much energy they will kill a tank. Great penitration and destroys everything inside. They are loads of fun to shoot and if a loud mouth comes along to hassel you just have him stand behind it while you fire. He will vanish in a cloud of smoke. LOL

I think Boddington used a 150 Nosler partition for that bull.

It was!

57 of R22 and 411 yds or something close to that, said something to the effect of he'd not seen a bull go down quicker b4.....

Dober

Sure could have been. Its been a few years since I read the story. All I remember is, the ol .270 surprised him a bit

If the Creedmoor is an elk rifle, the 30-06 is a Kodiak Brown Bear cartridge. That settles that!

Things will suprise all of us from time to time, when we actually try them...

Dober

You could rule the entire hunting world with a

6.5x55 and a 9.3x62.

Or a 22/250 and a 375 H&H....grin

Dober

264WM, 30-06 and 338 Federale (ooops we don't want to go there again)

Or a 270 and a 375 H&H....Fixed it for ya Dober

there..fixt it for ya Bob...

You rascal.....you are at it again.... LOL!

Well, I'm pretty sure Phil Shoemaker would say the -06 is a KBB cart.

Alan

That's why my main hunting battery I had built this past year is a 6.5x47 running 140 Part @ 2865, 140 VLD's @ 2950 and a 9.3x62 running 250 AB's @ 2606.

Alan

It is. I have a longbow and recall reading an article by one of the most respected traditional bowhunters out there. His standard for effective range and accuracy (if I recall correctly and I'm pretty sure I do) was that a trad bowhunter should be able to put 8 out of 10 arrows into a target the size of the vitals of a deer at his maximum range.

And IMHO, making a good hit with a traditional bow, no sights, finger release, and so on is just as complicated (if not moreso) with just as many variables or things that can go wrong as as a long-range shot with a scoped modern rifle.

Somehow 20% is an acceptable failure rate in that case, but not for long-range rifles.