There is all kinds of elk hunting, and little of it is an apples/apples comparison. For instance, shooting eating sized elk out of a hay meadow on a private ranch isn't the same as a big bull in the timber on public ground.
And so on...
Good point. Those "eating" sized elk, if they've spent the summers on the hay meadows are going to outweigh that bull in the timber by 100 lbs or so.
In the 40 some odd elk I've taken out of the high country over the last 1/2 century I don't think I ever had a shot over 250 yds. The 4 or 5 elk I've shot since they got so thick here,on the ranch, there's only 1 that was under 200, and that's because I set up an ambush for him at a stock dam.
Most of the "ranch" elk we've had shot here were moving, the vast majority of elk I've killed or been witness to in the "public" lands were standing and grazing, or bedded down.
