Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting What was toted around in your 2013 elk camp ???

Colorado, near the flattops wilderness...2nd combined season for elk/mulies......................
3-700's in .300 ultra
1-700 7mm rem
1-700 7mm ultra
1- A7 7mm rem

1-.280AI (mine)
1-.30.06
2-7RM

I'm always the oddball with my 300 WSM. The other 3? 30-06

My 300 WSM is the only one to score 2 years running but that was the luck of the draw, not the caliber used.

2- M70 30.06
1- R721 300 WBY
1-RRA AR-10 308 winny

1 - 9.3x74R
2 - 7mm Rem Mags
1 - .30-06
1 - .338 Win Mag

My 700 7saum.
A 300 RUM custom. 700 action.
A red pad 77 in 7x57.
A 700 300 win semi-custom.

2 35 whelens (7600 remingtons)
1 375 H&H (SAKO BOLT)
1 30/06 (browning A bolt)
1 450 marlin (browning BLR)

This year it was a Kampfeld 700 in 300 WBY and 700 in 7mm Rem Mag.

this was the collection of the "back-up's...
700 in 300 win
T3 in 300 win
Accumark 30-378
Accumark 338-378

What no pics? Here's what I packed around for a few days:




Packed my trusty 338 win mag around a couple days:


Rained a lot last season so I packed my cerakoted model 70 around a little too:


My elk hunting partner packed his '49 model 94 30-30 and his trusty Ruger m77 mkII 338 win mag.

.300 wsm, M70
.300 Weatherby, Weatherby
.270 wsm. Browning.

After about a dozen years and at least a dozen Elk hitting the deck, I've noticed one thing,

from my first Bull with a .280 to Bill's .300 bee, any shot in the vitals and the Elk die,

All the rest of the caliber "analysis" is just entertainment.

In ID and WA camps combined the guns were:

1 M70 - 7RM
2 M70 - .30-06
1 M98 - .35Whelen
1 Husqvarna - 9.3x57
1 M600 - .350RM
1 Firestar - .45ACP Our resident mad fisherman, he just goes along to fish and camp. He's the best camp cook ever, though.

Model 700---30/06
03 Springfield Sporterize 30/06

300 H&H
375 H&H
325 WSM

.308 Winchester in a Browning BLR, scoped. Light-weight and fast.

.270 WSM in in a Winchester Super Shadow---a tack driver but the magazine/feed ramp is a PITA.

Bang. Flop. (in both cases)

30-06 Model 70 post-64

338 Win Model 70 post-64

35 Whelen Ruger 77

22-250 Savage 16 Weather Warrior (the cook wanted to be armed)

3-30/06
2-300RUM

2 - .30-06
2 - 300WSM

Sweet.
Back-ups.
6.5 creed.
Lazzaroni Warbird
M70 pre 06
700 7rem mag

Rem 700 300 Weatherby
Rem 700 300 WSM
Rem 700 350 Rem Mag