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My Remington SPS 7 mag, topped with a Leupold 3.5x10 with B&C reticle loaded with 160 partitions at 3006 fps will go on my annual Wyoming cow hunt. The rifle has allowed me to take elk at 326, 400 and 443 yards. Either another 7 mag, or my Ruger American .308 will go as a backup.

Using the Whelen again this year in Northern Colo for cow, going to run 180 gr Barnes "X" original this go instead of the 250 gr Hot-Cor. My wife will be using the 6.5x55 with 120 gr Barnes "XFC" for her first bull elk. For back-up (I never hunt without a back-up, I've learned that lesson) a 7mm-08 with 140 gr Partitions should be the ticket.

My 7 mag will get the go ahead again this year.
Remington 700 running the 195 EOL topped with a Leupold scope.
I'm very excited to see how these new bullets will perform on an elk.
They sure are shooting very well so far.

For deer, I'll pack the same rifle probably, and for antelope I haven't
decided yet between my Remington 700 243 with 105 VLD's and a new
700 I built in 280 AI running the 168 VLD's. I know time is ticking on
that goat tag, but next week starts a little vaca time!!

I carried my Kimber84m in a 260. I shot a Spike the first morning, about 125 yards, 1 shot through the ribs as he was quartering away. I am shooting 120 gr. Ttsx's at 2800 fps. I recovered the bullet. It only weighed 101 gr. I was a little disappointed. They usually retain all their weight. It clipped the bottom of the spine though.

Awfully excited! Heading out in a few hours to get setup for Wednesday's opener. A five day any bull season. Been 12 or 13 years since I've seriously hunted elk. Doing a solo nonresident hunt so I can go to a place in (secret spot) Oregon I'm familiar with and confident has elk. Not as prepared for longer shots as hoped but not a place I'd suspect the need. Primary rifle is my camoed up Ruger All Weather 35 Whelen VX-R combo shooting 250gr Interloks with a couple wood-n-blued steel rifles to back it up. Will carry whatever feels good that day. One I just got, a 1965 Husqvarna HVA 30-06 which sighted in dirt simple with Federal bluebox 150s and just feels good. The other is a special to me Kimber of Oregon Mod 89 BGR 270 which is minute of elk with ubercheap Privi 150s now wearing a Leupy 6x42 LRD. It's purdy and slick as snot but yet to be tamed with handloads. Still might decide to leave one home - but then again - might not. Fingers crossed!

Semi-custom mountain rifle: Remington Model 700 in 30-06.

Last year I got a 5x6 and this year a spike and both were with a 270 win and a 130 gr bullet.

Congrats buddy!!! Glad to hear you got one. I'll be going out next weekend. Just shot my 338 today and she's still dialed in...

Kaywoodie
Good going!
I plan on lugging around with my 1890 circa Winchester 1886, built same year my grandad was born. She's chambered in 40-82 and likes Goex pushing a 260 grain cast bullet. Really hoping to fill my cow tag with her.

I used to get an elk about every year when bowhunting, but since I started rifle hunting I get skunked. So I carry the lightest rifle I can.

We're blessed with rifle season immediately following the rut. The bulls are kegged up recuperating in an area about 7 square feet in a vast sea of hundreds of thousands of acres of dense brush and trees. That's my standard excuse and disclaimer and I'm sticking to it.

This year I averaged 1 fresh elk track every six miles of rough ground, and zero sightings in 6 days. Every imaginable cow scent and sound was utilized in my failure. I used to love hunting elk in Oregon, now, not so much. While in Nevada deer hunting with my pal, we called in 6 point bulls for sport. Here, I couldn't if my life depended on it.

Sorry, ranting...

I feel the pain brother... I'll just leave it at that.

Elk is in the bag with a Sako in 300 Weatherby, but I still have 2 deer tags and 2 unbloodied guns I need to get out. One deer gets it with the Winchester 1895 in 40-72, the other in a Winchester Pre-64 featherweight in 270...

Was out this weekend with the crew and carried a Tikka in 7mm-08.

If I get the chance to test it out some more and get a good feel for how and where it's shooting, I will take a 300 WSM Montana to try and get an elk.

Thinking about taking my daughter somewhere to try and get her an elk for her first year. If I do, she will be shooting a Montana chambered in .243 win.

Shrap! Be sure and post the results of the 95 hunt!!! I should be headed to Deep South Texas in a couple of weeks and I'll be toting the 35 WCF. Depending on how many first time hunters we have in camp depends on me hunting. Much rather see them get a critter and do the helping with their animal. But if one of them blue Bulls shows his devilish face around me, I'll try like hell to send a 250 grain round nose Hornady thru his corpus!!!!

This is loaded with 380 grain cast bullets that will easily pass through an elk. I plan on testing it on a doe mule deer...

Excellent!!!!!

Took my Ruger .383WM/225g AB and .280 Rem /140g AB rifles.

Ended up using my buddy's LH Ruger 7mm RM/160g Grand Slam to take a 6x5 at 400 yards..

It was fitting as he took his first in the late 1990's with my RH Ruger 7mm RM and a 160g Grand Slam.

During the hunt he announced his diabetes related problems make this his last hunt. The hunt became much more about doing what he could do than doing what we needed to do. Still, we had a great time, hunted a lot of places we used to hunt and got mine on the morning of our last day. Details to follow in a separate thread.

Elk is over for the year and my "new rusty" 700 ADL 30-06 will sit out the Missouri deer rifle season for good behavior in Colorado

3 deer tags to fill and my 9.3x62 Mauser will plow the way