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Burnsfeld carries a handgun but he probably won't admit it.

^^^ I forgot you guys are allowed to use handguns unlike us and our stupid laws......

I don't know. I've never shot one and only hunted them once.

But shrap seems to think it works well.



Travis

If I dint went to prison I'd have ben a coledge gradjewat.



Clark

Carry on!! You are always entertaining!!

George,

Thanks for the well reasoned post. Like most of us I like yipin and yappin about elk rifles.

As I said before I am a victim of my experiences and have never needed the bullet to reach the Stern when the bull was shot in the Stem. The important stuff lays in the Stem and having a bullet make it out the Stern (hindquarters) after destroying the vitals is not a requirement for my elk hunting.

As to shooting through the Stern (hind end), in an effort to reach the vitals in the Stem, we may have to part ways. Even with the best of penetrating bullets that shot is to risky for me. Bullets have a tenancy to do funny things in 4 feet of bone, muscle, guts and grass long before they get to the important stuff.

If one needs to immobilize a wounded bull going straight away then breaking the pelvic girdle is much more sure and my .264 Win Mag is more than enough gun.

The crux of the matter is that properly shot bulls tend to die pretty quick with a multitude of rounds. I like rounds that are the easier to shoot than the .300 Bee, resist the atmosphere better than the .300 Bee, and anchor properly hit bull with authority.

It's not that I think the .300 Wby won't work on elk, I just think there are better rounds for general elk hunting and that is the question in the OP.

Thanks again and as I suspect things are going to get a bit western please don't take anything posted below to be directed at you.

All righty then.







As a side note you might want to check the thread title "The 300 Wby Mag- is there anything better". The thread is actually about cartridges better than the .300 Wby, hence the reason I am here.



I like patterns. Spray Tan, Smile, Nice Bull, cartridge "better" than the .300 Wby.






Tell me more about this "energy".

While your at it please list anywhere that restricts a 6.5mm for dangerous game but allows a .300 Wby. As you will be Googling a bit throw the search term "WMD Bell" in and learn a bit on shot placement, 6.5mms, and elephants.

In the immortal words of a close personal friend of mine from Paradise AK "Who chews your food?"



I ain't sayin it is the only way but the recipe has proven to work pretty well. Up gun to a hot rod 6.5mm and we find a real sweet spot.



Who wants to talk about the .300 Wby? The thread is about "better". That's why I am here.

Side note on sucking, have you seen Shrappys sig line??



I don't know what's gayer, you writing that or him using it as a sig line.

Happy New Year.

Maybe.

I killed this one at 620yds. 7mm Mag/ 180gr VLD.





Why would I not admit to carrying a handgun??

Grizzly tracks in the snow. .264 Win Mag bull on the ground.



You dudes need to quit asking questions about me and my stuff. Shrappy don't like it.

Burnsfeld,

I've owned chocolate labs bigger than than terrifying griz of yours.

John, that grizzly is a beaut.

I don't want to belabor this gack but your reply to my last post made me think I may have given the impression I shoot a 300 B so that I can regularly shoot elk in the butt. Nope, I don't.

Sure you have, dipschit.

How about you hang a picture of a Grizzly you killed that was bigger.



At least you are a man of your word.




Thanks George,

I never thought you were a butt shooter and do appreciate your thoughtful and fun discussion on the matter of elk rifles even if we come to different conclusion as to the best elk cartridge.

Guys like you make the campfire tolerable when the lunnys start to run.

Thanks again.

Thats a good way to describe the virtues of the 300wby

I loved my .300wby with 180s and loved my later purchase .338win with 225s,

but my choice nowdays would be neither of those!
instead it would be the .340wby with fast 200-210 monometals.

It really offers it all:: speed,momentum, flat shooting and raking shot penetration.

Yeah. I said that when I thought you wanted to have an honest conversation about elk rifles. Now I think that deflaves take on the whole matter is probably correct.

It's funny because at one point, I respected you. Unfortunately, you have your orange head shoved so far up your bleached azzhole, I'm not sure if you'll ever get it out.

Okey Doekey.

That's not weird at all.

Next time a thread on Elk Rifle comes up and you start wondering if any of the posters have "bleached Azzholes" that would be a clue that you are really not so interested in elk rifles and might be happier haninging out at the "Blue Oyster Bar".

Not judgin, just sayin.

Hunting Bears with Tom Shankster?

Sure, why not??

Tom put on a great hunt and I had a metric butt load of fun.

Killed a decent blackie in addition to the Grizzly.



If I was to complain there seemed to be a bit much hiking. I killed the Grizzly at the very far left edge of the blackie picture and hiking that far seems you know "excessive".

A better outfitter would have had the Grizzlys and the Blackies in closer proximity. Good Lord I had a 10lbs rifle to carry.

Tom was really not all that sympathetic and sort went with the "toughen up buttercup, hike your azz up the river and kill a Grizzly." Tough Love is best Love.

As a real plus my guide had a awesome azz tattt.

glad you had a good time with him....

That Dillinger River country is pretty frickin nice. Sheep, Moose, Grizzly, Blackies in abundance. I suspect more than a "bunch" of fellows want Tom to lose it.

Not exactly the kind of thing to brag about on the net. But then you seem to not really be a high class sort of fellow.

Congratulations?

Oppsi, caught you before the edit, doushebag.

Yeah I went edited to clean it up figured leave it alone... Yeah I'm pretty low class fellow drink beer from a can sometimes from a bottle.. In general we don't care for out of state guides. Majority of the time they will shoot an area out and move onto another area.. If the unit 19 AC was smart they would do what unit 13 AC did and set it up where NR have to draw for a moose permit... Most Alaskans want to see sheep go to a draw for NR as well... But those are decisions for the AC and BOG...

What's wrong with that? It's sex with the person he loves most in all the world....

As an eastern guy who has hunted Moose a number of times but never hunted Elk (although I plan to ), I had always led to believe Elk were tougher to bring down than Moose and you need at least a 300 mag. Many of the gunwriters touted the various 338 mags as perfect I just accepted it because I didn't know. Then I started watching Best of the West on TV and those guys were doing some crazy things with the 7mm Rem. mag. I joined the CF and John Burns is doing those same things with a .264 mag. Thanks to them I have a different perspective and when I finally get around to Elk hunting I won't follow the eastern hype and go straight to a .300 mag. Whatever I do take will probably start with a 2. I don't shoot long range but I feel there is a lot to be gleaned from those who do.