Originally Posted by MIKEWERNER
Dang, Buzz.......cannot tell you how impressed your post left me. Alaska and all that super impressive stuff!

Like I said earlier.......we could quickly hammer some cow elk on private land with rifle.......type 6 tags......but prefer the challenge of bowhunting on State/Federal lands.

Can only assure you........money is no object!

We will avoid the front shoulder like the plague.......but still try not to shoot too far back.....a potential bad situation.

You surely know what I mean!

Originally Posted by BuzzH


I caught a few partitions in elk from a .338 but never have shot accubonds from mine so can't know.

My .338 has been collecting dust ever since I brought it back from AK hunting muskox some years ago.

Maybe in 2023 I'll pull that thing out of the safe, dust it off, and kill another elk with it...or may just keep shooting the 6mm for filling elk tags.

Either way, the result is the same.



My buddy and I were 2 of the last 4 people to ever get to hunt musk ox in this area in AK...season has been closed since we drew/hunted.

Didn't do bad...2 all time record book bulls in 2 days.

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IMO, .338 is overkill.

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Last edited by BuzzH; 09/02/21.