Rhetorical question of course and I'll be archery hunting


Yep and season is 3 months away

Trail cam pics from my property

pregnant cow












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bull checking out backside of a cow


two bulls new antler growth




cow and calf

another very pregnant cow



after a heavy rain


you looking at me?

another pregnant cow





old cow

Nice pictures

Wow! Love the pics and yes...it will kill one very very dead...like graveyard dead. Use a good bullet and place that bullet in the vitals and it will be all over but the crying.

the 06 will kill coyotes too!

I'd be lookin for them coyotes with the '06 first....

Really nice pics !

Ribka

Very impressive pictures..May I ask what model TASCO trail cam you are using?

Regards,

Peter

I have the cheap Tasco models I picked up 4 years ago. I don't use expensive one because camera theft is a problem.

I'll be archery hunting this year

My last cow elk was killed with a .308 and a Sierra 165 at 200 yards. One heart shot throught the front leg.

A few more



Amazing how fast antlers grow

From a week ago

Have had problems with elk pushing my cameras around on trees

None of the elk I have shot with the .06 have crawled out of the freezer in the last 15 + years, so I suppose it works.

In that setting a 30-30 would be fine. 170gr Partition.

Great pics!

Oh,and the '06 definitely works!

no. Only AI'd will.

Nice pics.

Jealous here . . . .

Looks like you have a pretty nice set up there!

Ribka, very nice photos and a beautiful area you live in.

I assume you are aware of the high wild-fire danger represented by the vegetation species composition I see in your photos? If your home is nearby; I hope it is buffered against a potential forest fire.

Great photos! The elk are nearly on top of the camera.

We have the same problem with elk attacking our cameras. I think they may be after the bird schitt on the game cams! Probably some salt in it. We have a few 30 minute videos of elk licking and nuzzling the cam.

Will a 30/06 kill an elk?
Do the Pope work on Sundays?
Does a fat baby poot?
Does a redneck like Bar B Que?.....
A 30/06 will kill anything with the right bullet placement.

Very cool pictures!

The first elk I killed was with a bone plain as-issued-Remington 03A3, the elk didn't notice the lack of "modern" caliber or scopes.

NICE photo spread...now if you can just figure out where they disappear to on the night before the opener...

Nice pictures and I'll ask the guy hanging on the wall if he's dead or not. If he ain't dead he's sure stayed mighty still and quiet these last 15 years.

This is a calving area for the. They come here every year and they will hang around another month or so and then head to nearby deep canyons nearer water sources. I'll move cameras then and set up tree stands for archery season beginning of Sept. The bulls seem to stick around in small bachelor groups until beginning of August. This is based on the past 7 years observing them near the house.

I really enjoy watching them and listening to their vocals and observing their behavior. Neat animal

ribka,

Great photos--and obviously great location! Congratulations.

As for the answers to your original "question," they're more evidence than relatively few Campfire members actually read the original post before answering--or know the meaning of "rhetorical."

Word.

But they were distracted by the photos!

It's human nature for men to not let anything get in their way when they know the answer to an easy question. It's the killer instinct in us.

NICE, I see elk loin in your near future Ribka, got an ole Bud out West that invited me to hunt his place this year, if time allows think I'll use my Shiloh 45-70 to hunt with.

Good luck and safe hunting this year.

Gunner

Cheese...

Actually I am pretty sure my 30 Super Flanged ("British 30-06") would do the job with the 220 grainers satisfactorily.

CZ

30-06 brass formed into a .270 will not kill an elk, under any circumstance. Everyone knows that, yet still some try!

30-06 necked down to a .280 will kill an elk. But you will have to shoot the elk more then once!

A 30-06 will kill an elk, if and only if your currently up-to-date with the trendy/best bullet. Try those Supercalifradileboolisticextraexplosive � if you can find them.

Nice pictures!

I know what it means, but I just read the title, and looked at the pretty pictures. I figured it was just another dumb bullet/caliber/elk question.

+1
My thoughts as well.

If the thread title had been 'Who is buried in Grant's tomb?' ....

Me too!

Nice place to bow hunt.

Nice photos and terrific neighborhood!

Are the dates correct on your camera?
I was just wondering when the elk in your area drop their antlers and when you start to see them forming again.

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