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I’m a midwesterner and didn’t start after elk until relatively late in life. I’ve taken 13 or so with two being cows. I’m not a guy who tries to intentionally take elk at long range, and took none if 500 yards is your threshold. But most, about 8 or 9 ors so, were past 400 yds, the longest at a walked off 475. These were mostly pre-LRF, or without time to do so, and the last couple were close enough to not have to range them.

So I’ve a small cluster between 400 and 500.

Edit: I’ve used a 45/70, 45 Colt, 30/06, and the last was taken with a 284 Win. But all those between 400 and 500 were with a 340 Wby. As a boomer I hate to use a millennials’ term, but it was “awesome”!
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