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Saddlesore good on you and the brake. Nice bull too. I've got some 200gr Speers I'll trade you for those 180Norma's if RC doesn't take them. powdr

Awesome! You can't argue with those results. Congrats!

Eric

Good job on making it work.

good on you and Roscoe too.

Roscoe didn't look entirely happy. Get him to smile better next time. :P

That's the operative phrase......

So, if elk appeared sometime before you got to the stand, you wouldn't have been prepared to shoot them?

Funny you should mention that. My son shot his elk late morning on the way back to camp after we had been sitting at our stand since daylight. When he shot I was right beside him, talking to him and forgot to plug my ears. His 243 hardly made my ears ring (another argument for a 243 with premium bullets--nil recoil, low, low muzzle blast.........)

I'm still saying you can get as much or better recoil reduction with a Decelerator.




Did Roscoe get earmuffs too?

If he didn't, maybe that's why he's not smiling in the photo.


Just teasing SS, you're one of my fav guys on here.

Congrats on the elk! And I like it that you know where to hang out and let the elk come to you--smart elk hunting.

Casey

No, a Decelerator doesn't work like a brake for every kind of recoil problem people encounter. My wife has Decelerators (or another variety of soft pad) on every one of her hunting rifles, and they didn't help at all with the recoil headaches she started getting a few years ago.

By trial and error she found out more than about 15 foot-pounds of recoil resulted in the headaches, regardless of the recoil pad--or stock shape, or whatever other factor Campfire experts come up with then discussing recoil. She did fine when killing a cow elk this year with her .257 Roberts, but would like to be able to use her custom .308 Winchester (with a stock made to precisely fit her) for bigger game. We tried reduced loads with 130-grain TSX's, but by the time we got them going slow enough to prevent the headaches, there was no real point, since her .257 worked just as well.

So she's going to have a brake installed, and since she has probably 3 pairs of electronic muffs that will work I doubt she'll have any problem.

Saddlesore,

Well done! Glad the brake worked out so well.

Congrats. I have brakes on my 460 and 416 and 30-378. My 378 Bee did not come with one. My brakes myself and my peltors work great!

Thanks John. I appreciate that coming from you after all the grief a few gave me.


Casey. I get to my stand right before shooting hours. Roscoe was a ways from me. That photo was taken after I had processed the elk and was packing it out.

Roscoe and my saddle mule Woodrow were down in the trees at the end of the meadow.



I was up at the other end of the meadow at the end of the pines.



I shot from those up turned aspens that were pushed over from an avalanche.

Pwdr.PM me with adddress and you can have them for about $13 shipping in a flat rate box or less if I can get them in a smaller one.

Vince

Good job on the elk Saddle Sore.

How are the 130ABs doing in your swede? What are you using them on? They shoot great in my swede, but I haven't killed anything with them yet. I'm hoping they'd be ok if I stumbled on an elk while both deer and elk season are on.

I like the pictures. Thanks for showing them.

Great hunt SS. I only wish I had been there too.

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Congrats on the elk & rifle sucess.
Thanks for sharing it here with us.

Nice pics.

Saddlesore; Thanks for offering up your good results with the brake use and ear protection.
Having just bought a 300 Win mag in Wby Accumark, I might go that route to tame recoil on this old body : )
Unit 54 is still looking good and producing elk for you, happy to hear and see that. : ) Nice photos Saddlesore, thanks for sharing.