Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Will a 30 06 kill an elk?

Nice Photographs- You could take one of those cows with a well placed shot with a 243 under those conditions. But those conditions are not when hunting season is a foot. As for the cartridge in question, yea but there are a whole bag full of others that will do as well, the only thing is that all the others compare to the gold standard .30-06 a 180 gr bullet at around 2700 fps seems to just work, when it dose not its more a case of poor marksmanship than anything else. Since you are going to be bow hunting, my comments are more to hear myself type than anything else. Should be a good season.

No a 30-06 willnot but the bullet shot in one mite

Yet another....

It's beyond me why anyone would settle for a 30.06 when for the same money a guy can shoot a real rifle/round like a super zapper 300mag. If a 180gr bullet at 2700fps is good why isn't the same bullet at 3200fp better? The 300Weatherby Mag is what every 30.06 wishes it was. But, wait if the big 300's are good, wouldn't the 340 Weatherby be better? And what's wrong with killing flies with a sledgehammer anyway?

The Tasco camera seems to work as well as anything. They made fairly decent into level scopes if I remember right. The Japanese made ones were better than the Philippine made ones.
Nice pics at any rate. I assume the headline was to draw attention as the '06 has killed it's fair share of elephant let alone elk. Good luck this fall, hope to see some follow up meat pole shots.

Funny. I've owned a couple 300 Win Mags, 308 Norma, 300 WSM, and a 300 Weatherby. I'm back to the ol' faithful '06. I had the 300 Weatherby in a Vanguard and didn't care for it much. Although not a real fair shake to the 300 Weatherby, I may have liked it more had I spent the extra coin and bought one of their better rifles. Out of those listed above I liked the 300 WSM that I had in a Tikka T3, oddly enough. I say that as I'm a wood and blue steel kind of guy. If I were to go down the 300 mag road again I would take the time to find or build an H&H on a Winchester M70 action.
My current '06 stable suits me well though one being a Ruger No.1 RSI that has a tuned trigger and a Trop safety so the empties exit without any hang ups. The other is a M77 Hawkeye stainless for beating around in the poor weather. I had the trigger tuned and the action polished plus a set of Williams irons which are being tacked on as I type this. If I weren't such a cheap bastard I would build a 7 Mashburn like I've always wanted to and run that exclusively. I just can't get past the frugal '06. It just keeps killing stuff with such boring effectiveness and does so on the Dave Ramsey budget. Being, as my grandmother so eloquently put it " so English I'm Scottish" I appreciate the economics of it. Not to mention I have collected about 1K '06 brass all of which are properly neck turned, annealed, and formed to my specific rifles.

Is Bismarck a herring?

Good luck on your BOWHUNT! Might want to consider getting some of those "patriot arrows" that robin hood shot in Robin Hood, Men in tights. The extra power really helps and they are so accurate!

Them critters is tasty....

The way some gun writers talk about the 06, bullets simply bounce off, or need a 300 Magnum for elk.

Per se and left alone, -06s tend to be of a layed back, stay at home, in the closet, stand around disposition. Backwards in sentiment, if you wish.

However - an able companion finds them ready for most any rifles task at a moments notice. Add 700 $ and almost no problems remain unsolvable.

One should be able to get an elk at that place, me thinks. 06 or sticks n'strings...

The .30-06 has probably killed more elk, than all other calibers combined, or close to it.

Probably right ppine, I shot one through the heart at 300 yds with a 165 gr Hornady BT, don't know why I needed the 338/378 probably cause I needed to shoot them at 700 yds.

Starting to grow. Grooming for the ladies

Yes fires are always a concern especially in Sept when stuff dries out before Sept rains. Ran over and hosed down around neighbors' house for 3 hours to stop fire from burning out buildings and house. Big pucker factor



Fire at neighbors last Sept. Thank God controlled before it entered the timber

Thank God wind changed directions last moment

I think I finally figured it out. Elk have been crossing with wild boars, and now have a plate that cannot be penetrated by much less than a .50BMG.

/too bad you have to worry about camera theft. Thanks for making the bug worse.

Gonna post any pics of the calves?

Yep coming up