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Details Kimber Montana 300 WSM Nightforce 3-15x50 NXS Barnes 175 grain LRX
Backup Barrett Fieldcraft 6.5 Creedmoor Nightforce 3-15x50 NXS Hornady 143 grain ELD-X
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35 Whelen and 200 gr Tipped TSX will be this years elk gun.
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Either:
Borden 300 WSM with 165 AB's or Borden 280 AI with 140 AB's
"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country." Robert E. Lee
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Kimber Mountain Ascent 280AI shooting Barnes 150 TTSX's. It's topped with a Swarovski 3x9.
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Can’t go this year due to medical issues BUT, if I was, it would be with a Remington 700 LS Mountain rifle, 30/06. R-P nickeled brass, 58 grs, H-4350, WLR Mag primer and a 180 Accubond at about standard velocity. Leupold VX-3 3.5-10X, B&C reticle. It’s worked for all my bulls from 23 yards to 475.
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Navlav8r: Dang sorry to hear about you missing this years Elk Hunt! I know how you must feel as I had to miss last years Elk Hunt (for the first time in 50+ years!) due to a bad wheel (left knee) myself. Just got a brand new artificial knee though and I am bounding around like the three tiny Mule Deer fawns that just passed within 10 feet of me as I was sitting here in my library/computer room. Cute little guys/gals - they were trying to eat lawn grass but I am not sure if they are weened enough yet to do that - two of them drank from my bird baths though. I really like the Leupold 3.5x10 variable I have on my main Elk Hunting Rifle - and will use it again this fall if I don't get "lucky" during our long archery season here in Montana. I also like nickel plated brass - and have used it for years in several of my Big Game and Varmint Rifles. Hope you perk up soon and get after the Elk next season. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Thanks VG, me too. When the “C” word is used in the same sentence as your name, priorities tend to rearrange themselves and I’ ve been dealing with it for a year and a half with surgery and radiation. Hopefully, next year I’ll have a first season high camp hunt with an outfitter friend with a timberline hunt near the Continental Divide in Colorado. 😊
Gotta start getting shape😀
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Haven’t decided since I will be in guide mode, more than a hunter/shooter this season...Likely take my 300 Roy. It’s light at 10lbs all up. My hunter is an accomplished marksman, so I’m not anticipating having to follow up his shot. I will be loaded up with my usual 180g NAB’s at 3200 FPS just in case. 😎
Curiosity Killed the Cat & The Prairie Dog “Molon Labe”
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My youngest daughter (12) wants to use the 6mm Creedmoor, but since it's my long range rig I talked her into using my VZ-24, 6mm Remington. A 105 grain Speer or 100 grain SBT aimed through a simple Vortex optic should do the job for open country cow elk I'm sure. My middle daughter (16) and I will be running the RAR 6.5 Creedmoor, a 130 grain ELD-M directed by a Vortex Tactical should be the ticket for my deer and her cow.
The girls have been shooting these rifles all summer and taking some pretty long shots with them. Not that a long shot is what we're looking for, but building confidence at long range helps to solidify the fundamentals needed to make a 150 yard chip shot.
Shooter's Edge FFL in Western CO
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6 CM, 90 grain Swift Scirocco bullet, Leupold 3x9 Ultralight, Lone Peak Ti action, 22” Proof Carbon 1-7.5 bbl., Alpha brass.
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“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”. Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Posted by Brad.
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Remington 600 Mohawk, Leupold 3x9-40 from 1997, 6mm Remington 100 grain Partition on a cow hunt.
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If I go this year it will probably be this ol’ beast again. Carries nicely in the mountings and is a very good shooter with those 220 grain Hornady RN’s. Last several elk I have kilt have all been with either open sights or a peep. i really like the cartridge. One of my favorites. Went out yesterday shooting. Shot this old Krag and it is still amazing. Using Hornady 220 RN and 44 grains of RL 19. It’s good with my funky eyes to at least 150 yards no problem. However I also took one of my Husqvarna 146’s in 9.3 x 57. Has an old Redfield 2 1/2x on it. Got it shootin’ pretty dang good too!! 48 grains H 4895 and 270 Speer Hot-cor. May haul it up in place of one of the flinters I was considering. Think it would work well to 200 yds and it does have glass on it for my failing eyesight. But I seemed to do ok with both yesterday. Only problem with the 9.3 is my bum right shoulder. It really murders me. That Krag is a cream puff to shoot!
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Here’s my Husqvarna 146, 9.3 x 57. If you look close, right in front of the heel of the stock about 10 o’ clock from that little name plack thingy ( came on the rifle when pirchased). There are seven little brass pins! Seven elg in the old country???? . Who knows! Mfg in 1938. But this one is kinda growing on me for this season.
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Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Mebbe seven russians in Finland! 😉
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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my husky H 5000 in 30/06 and 220gr ammo it's topped with a Leopold vx 3, 2.5x8 scope next up is a Winchester model 70 classic in 6.5 swede with a Leopold vx 2, 2x7 129grainer's
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I will be taking two as well
Tikka T3 270 win, leupold vx6 2x12 cds Hornady 145 ELD-x Factory
Browning Stainless Stalker 300WSM Leupold vx-3 2.5X8 180 hornady interlocs
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300 win mag Nula with a Leopold VX-6 190 grain Berger
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I'm going radical this time: Two 30-06s, both shooting 180 grain Partitions. No magnums, no small bores. One is a post-64 Model 70 (Sears Model 53) and the other is a Bergara B-14 Hunter. Glass will be 3-9x on both.
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Hadn’t considered a back-up rifle....I’ll just use my wife’s rifle. It’s a little short, and a little less caliber... but, it’s been working for her! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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