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Very nice fotis. That's how you get it done. The same rifle/load and person is legally able to shoot 2 elk in your state?

Use both 180gr TTSX and 175 LRX in 300WM and 30-06 respectively. They are both accurate and kill just fine.

I hope you had help lifting those in the truck. Always a good hunt when you can load them whole instead of quartering and packing.

I shot a 5 point a few years ago about 200 yards from a road. I called a friend and he came out to help me and had a huge spool of rope in his truck. It needed to come perpendicular to the road so I backed my truck off the road and used my ball hitch to turn the rope 90 degrees so it was headed down the road. We then tied it to his truck end then took 200 yards of rope out to the elk and tied it on. He got in his truck under drove down the road and I held the rack up and walked with it as it towed it right to the back of my truck.

I guy driving by stopped and took pics. He said it was the most red neck thing he'd ever saw. Somehow that made us proud.

Bb

We had access to a tractor on private land in Nebraska.

Ha! Sounds like a good day!

Good luck with your boys hunt BB. I think I remember reading you and him were heading to hunt shortly.

Scotty

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One recovery

I remember that one. Looked like a wicked good hunt. Thank you!

In my Winchester 300 WSM: 175 LRX or 180 TSX, I get around 2850 fps with H4831sc, and 5/8” 100 yard groups.

I haven’t tinkered much with the 175’s much but the 150’s are doing well for me. One ragged hole at 100 yards and they hammered a nice black bear for me this year. Dead on impact. 350 dressed and about 425 live weight.

An update. I positively smashed a mature bull elk Saturday morning with the 175 LRX out of a 300 WM. 405 yards. I recovered the bullet. Perfect performance

I worked up a load yesterday for a 300WM using Barnes 168gr TTSX BT bullets. First powder and OAL I tried from the Barnes website was a ragged 5 shot hole. I like it when that happens.