Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting Wife Scores Again 652yd Elk

Like I mentioned in the other thread on the long range forum my wife has put in a ton of time over the last year practicing at long range. She has came along nicely and scored on a couple deer earlier in the year.

This past weekend was her elk season. She drew a antlerless permit in the are that we elk hunt in, so we were pretty confident that we could get her on an elk.

Saturday morning first thing we were glassing over some reprod and she spotted some elk that were just out of range. We made our way closer and just missed an opportunity as they went over the and out of site.

We continued hunting and and eventually spotted another herd in some thick reprod. We set up and watched the elk move in and out of the small openings but never gave us a good shot. They were working their way toward a small clearing, so we just waited them out. When the elk came into the clearing they finally presented her with a shot we were both comfortable with.

She touch a round off and it hit home, breaking the left shoulder and taking out both lungs. The bullet was lodged just under the hide in front of the offside shoulder. The elk staggered and went downhill and into the reprod and out of site.

After a short tracking job there she was.


Not much time to celebrate as there was one more tag left to fill. We got the elk skinned and quartered headed in to hang it in the cooler, then back out for an evening hunt. The other hunter scored just before dark.



And the mark of a long successful day.



Rifle is a Kimber Montana 300WM, 180 grn accubonds with 75 grns of RL22. Optics are a leupold MK4 4.5-14x40, with target turrets.

Outstanding in every way. Just outstanding.

Hell Yeah.

Gunner

Congrats to the both of y'all.

Love the carnage in the meat locker! Great job!

Nice shooting on her part, very impressive. And those should be some fine meals hanging on those hooks.

She really has no business shooting elk that far. This is nothing but stunt shooting and showing off.

Well at first we had the elk at 200 yards but we backed up to 652 because we wanted to try it out.

Well of coarse ---i wouldn't have clicked on the thread if'n it had said 200yards -laf.
Good shooting and great eating !

Now that is funny! lol...

Good for her, that's some pretty good shooting. Nice pictures of your hunt.

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Congratulations! Great shot.