Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Your experience using Federal Trophy Copper Bullets for Elk

I was lucky to get drawn in 2018 for a Kentucky Elk hunt. Folks told me to go with a good "Bonded" bullet and I was whatever I just use my deer loads. I think I was lucky on how my hunt turned out. I was able to get within 50 yards of my bull with my 7mm Remington Magnum. Two shots within a few inches of each other and the bull maybe went 75 yards. When we were skinning it out I had copper jacket pieces in the hide and the bullet did not go all the way through. Blood trail was very light, but he was in sight the whole time. Lesson learned was don't skimp on ammo for a hunt that cost about $5,000.



Two shots.



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