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Shooting a cow out of your outfitters pasture, while laying the rifle over your truck mounted window rest isn't hunting...….but you hero's keep flapping your gums! You're great entertainment!

Just make sure you wear a Dairy Queen hat while doing it so you can be like your pipsqueak 24hr resident elk hero.

Laughing at you......

That's it. You know my wife well but she prefers the Burger King crown FYI...

Greg, he kills the schittttt outa those paper targets. Animals........not so much. Be sure to tell her that too, especially the 338WM kills 'em dead with one shot from any angle and "damn near any distance". That's a pearl right there.

Good gosh......the level of dumbassery around here is growing at a much faster rate than the COVID19 every thought of growing.

LOL, have it your way.

Should have posted some target pics to bolster your claims.

Those are all fine choices. So is a properly loaded .270 Win, .280 Rem, .280AI, .30-06 or .300 WM. The ones you suggest as well as these are all capable well beyond 600 yards when properly loaded.

I load 150g Nosler ABLR 20 2910fps for Daughter #1's .270 Win. At 7000 feet altitude and 700 yards it delivers 2100fps and 1500fpe with a gentle 18ft-lbs recoil. My .280 Rem with a Nosler 150g ABLR is good to 650 yards. A .30-06 loaded with a 168g ABLR delivers 2000fps/1500fpe past 700 yards at 7000 feet altitude.

The launch platform is less important the projectile, but I'm a big fan of Ruger M77/MKII/Hawkeye rifles. You can pick up a Ruger Hawkeye .30-06 at cdnnsports.com for $499. Or a .280 Rem for $469. I have one of the Hawkeye .280 Rem rifles and love it. Bought one of the CDNN Ruger .30-06 rifles of a SIL, wish I had one myself.

Most bullets will work most of the time but a wounded elk can go further and faster than you can. For that reason I prefer bullets that will penetrate to the vitals from any angle. The bullets I trust most to do that are Barnes TTSX and LRX, North Fork SS, Nosler Partition and AccuBond, Swift A-Frame and Scirocco II. Have not personally used the Federal Trophy Bonded Tip, Edge TLR or Terminal Ascent but would do so with complete confidence. These bullets combine the best characteristics of my preferred bullets – a bonded lead core up front with a solid rear rear.

Indeed... but you expected different?

If the OP really wants a new rifle, based on what he has then I would recommend a magnum of some flavor. Keep it under 8 pounds scoped and shoot it. 7 mag and 300 mag both have inexpensive factory ammo if you don’t reload. Use a tough bullet for hunting and you’ll be good if a shot opportunity comes.

As for the dumbass comments toward creekworrior I believe he is fed up with folks who are fortunate enough to hunt large ranches presenting themselves as know it alls. I don’t know how anyone hunts here and could care less as long as this sport continues. We are on the same team and all have similar views on the big things. Hunting pressured elk is very different from hunting elk on private. They both have there challenges, I’ve done both, but public land elk are much tougher to get close too. Creekworrior taught me to hunt and fed me and my sister and my mom with elk meat growing up. When he was harvesting elk every year with a rifle he switched to a compound bow. When that became “easy” he switched to a recurve and made his own arrows. I wish I knew half he does about elk hunting. He bugles big bulls into spitting distance to this day. Hunting hard and getting close to the elk are the experiences that made me love hunting and have a major respect for elk.

Pretty bold of you and your dad to assume people on this thread are killing their elk on large ranches.

I never said that did I? But there’s a difference in hunting style. One requires a lot more skill and work.

Man, this thread just keeps on giving...

This is a jewel that needs to be saved...LMFAO 😂😎

What do u think about s winny xlr in 325 wsm. I'm not looking for a gun that last 100 years

I commend you for defending the honor of your friend and provider but he shouldn't talk out of his ass at people he doesn't know. Pretty basic stuff.

I apologize to CreekWarrior for my wife killing elk with a 7-08. Better?

Someone say pasture, outfitted, trespassing???? 😂😂😂

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6ai 80 gr bt’s 😂😂

It’s difficult keeping up with those that hunt diy pub land and those who hunt ranch property, either paid or friend/family access...

Doesn’t really matter to me what a person hunts, except when a member get’s it wrong and calls a public land hunter a pasture shooter.

That gives me a case of the red-ass. 😎

We call that “Grocery Store Elk Hunting”....And it’s damn nice after having your nuts kicked inside out bull hunting.

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Ya I’ve packed enough of em out in pieces, I deserve a easy one now and again!! 😆

DUCK, it wouldn’t be my choice of rifle and cartridge (do you mean the XPR line) but, yes, that combo will work on elk. The cartridge is not the most popular and ammo won’t be available everywhere if you don’t handload which is why I’d favor the 7mm RM, and second, the 300 WM if indeed you don’t stay with a standard cartridge.

But, if there’s a special reason you favor the 325 in the XPR, by all means...