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It's still winter here in northern Mn. and a great time to look at dead elk and rifles...let's see your fav...

Mine is a pre 64 M70 300H&H with a #2 Lilja, shooting 180 TTSX's, bedded to a MCM Echols (edge ) stock, wearing a swaro Z3 3-10x42, weighs, 7 3/4 lbs.


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Dats a nice elk rifle!

I have Bob Marshall elk hunt planned this year and am having a hell of a time deciding what to bring?

My pre64 fwt 30-06 in a synthetic stock is giving me accuracy problems.

My other choice is my fwt pre64 270. It is loving 150 nosler partition at 3000fps with RL26. I just have to wrap my mind around the damage a horse may inflict on the stock?

This was my first centerfire rifle that I put together in 1967 from a Herter's Model U-9 barreled action in .30-06 and one of their semi-inleted stocks. It wore a Weaver 3-9x40 scope. In about 1978 I had it rechambered to .30 Gibbs. From 1971 until 2003 it was my favorite elk rifle. As a .30-06 I loaded 180 grain Sierra GameKing bullets for its elk load, and as a .30 Gibbs I loaded 180 grain Nosler Partitions for elk hunting. It put an elk in my freezer most of those years.

Here's its last bull as a .30-06 from northwestern Montana.


In 2009 I fulfilled a long time dream of having a .300 Weatherby. I put a AA Fancy Walnut stock on a Vanguard barreled action. I had a KDF muzzle brake installed on it, then I glass and pillar bedded the action, installed a Timney trigger, put a mechanical recoil reducer in the stock, and hand checkered the stock with my favorite multi panel wrap-a-round checkering pattern. I now have a Leupold VX 3i 4.5-14x40 30mm scope with a CDS turret for my 180 grain Barnes TTSX load. It is now my favorite elk and just about everything else rifle.

This is the first elk that I shot with it.


And the last animal that I shot with it, a Dagestan Tur in Azerbaijan last year.
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My favorite elk rifle. Actually my favorite anything bigger than a coyote rifle.

Not the best picture of the rifle, but a custom 28 Nosler.

The rifle fired two rounds last hunting season. A coues at 719, and the bull at 676.

I know. Y'all have seen it before. Still my favorite elk rifle!!

1968 Sako 338, Bofors steel barrel. McMillian stock, Cerekote finish, with a Schmidt scope. Shoots 0.4" groups with 225 grain North Forks at 100 yards.

300 yard shot on a 2015 bull:


342 yard shot on my 2017 bull:

Dang, that thing looks like a charolais, what's the rifle?

It is an Echols Legend in 300 win mag. We (mostly he) built it when I worked for D'Arcy.

Though in this pic it's laying on a pronghorn, my favorite elk rifle is a Ruger MKII in 338 Win Mag with a Leupold 3-9X40 shooting 210gr Partitions.
1stBuckPronghornWY439-16-07thePipel by Tyler Staggs, on Flickr

Pretty tough to beat a straight 338 for a dedicated elk rifle.

It works. I'll be using it this fall on "your" tag in MT.

Now, if I could just find a black bear to poke with it...

Pointer, that's a great picture man.

Thanks! It was my first buck pronghorn and the last hunt I ever did with my Dad.

[align:center][/align]First Model Newton rifle chambered in 30 Newton. 200gr partitions.

It's been a few years since I've done much elk hunting, but the last one I shot was with this Mark V 270 Wby. I think it's the only rifle I currently own that I've taken elk with so that must make it my favorite, but then it's also the one I hunt the least with

Wow, 1st model Newton in .300 Newton. Way KOOL !!!!!

God you're a sexy beast!



Anyhow, now that I got that off my chest, my "favorite" elk rifle is my good 'ol 6.5x284, though I have only taken 4 elk with it. 3 bulls and one extra cow. A bit heavy, but it straight up works, especially with the old 140 AMAX.

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