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Very nice!

My favorite elk rifle is my favorite rifle period.

Love that picture. Way cool. Nice Kudu too.

Elk chaser, that .30 Newton is the coolest rifle on the fire..

Buffy, a bit of change since the .30 Gibbs and the Wea.. You have some great posts..


T man, the 6.5 cool, but the H & H is the coolest!!!

TC Omega.

Ya, it's a good one too. Really like it so far but it only has one elk to it's credit.

Rifle?

It's around here somewhere

Shoot more!!

That's my "blue steel" look!

Ruger 77 .338 Win Mag with Colorado bull:

Outstanding, both the rifle and the story behind it.

Would have to be this one - my .280 KS Mtn Rifle. I'm not much of a elk hunter but this rifle has taken all the ones I've shot over the years.

Ted - rifle cartridge and blueprint? I like it.

As a few have mentioned....my favorite elk rifle is my favorite ( in my case.... only) hunting rifle!













Win. Model 70, .375 AI, 24” Douglas SS Match Grade barrel, Leupold QR base/rings, and express sights, 9.0# scoped, fully loaded, with sling. My only hunting rifle since Feb. 1990. memtb

Being from the NE, if I'm on an Elk hunt, it's because I paid good money to do so. Give me a 338 or a 340 Wby. While a 25-06, 243, 6.5 Creedmoor, etc may kill an Elk with the perfect shot presentation, I want to be able to make any shot that may present itself.

Pre '64, 30 Gov't 06 Given to me by my Grandfather who won it in a Big Buck Contest in 1937.


Still works pretty good on Mule Deer also. Have yet to find one like the 38-3/4" bruiser my Grandpa won it with though - but I'm trying!

"Favorite elk gun" is a bit hard for me to pick.

If I had to name one that is the rifle that I have used to kill the most elk it's my 375H&H.
In 2nd place is probably my 270 Winchester.

But I find more enjoyment there days in using other rifles. None of what I am using today are better. In fact balistically they are often not as "good".
But I hunt to fill the freezer and also to enjoy the days of hunting. In the last 15 years of so I have not killed an elk with my old Mauser 270 or my Mauser 375H&H. I have been using other guns to do it for the fun of trying a new gun.

Last year I had truck problem and didn't get to go get my elk. The year before I used an 8X57 Mauser with a full stock. The year before that I used my Benelli R1 270 Short Mag and my 308 Mossberg. The year before that I used my Ruger #1 in 9.3X74R.
The year before that I used the same Ruger #1 but with a different load and also I used a 44 magnum revolver with 320 grain LBT bullets.

And so it has been.

Thinking back over the last 14-15 years I have used a lot of different guns and been successful with nearly all of them and yet I still have about 4 more I need to "try" and just have the fun of using them.

I'd love to take an elk with my 6.5X54 Mannlicher, one with my 9.3X57, one with my 9.3X62, one with my new 303 British, maybe one with my 404, and so it goes.
These days I don't think I have a favorite elk gun, but I do have favorite hunts.