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Yikes.......get out the garden hose.......these two need separated!
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Yea......quit regurgitating.....pacecars. Everyone knows the 30/06...7 mag....300 mag shooters all develop a flinch that cannot kill animals. When they switch to the 6mm.........they take home Olympic Gold! Duh! "Premium"...to who? "Light caliber"...to who? Stop lapping up regurgitated wives tales.
I will be shooting a 105bthp this year for bear, deer, elk, antelope...and not think twice. I would use a 100gr power point, eldm, eldx, berger...but my 6 creed barrel like the 105s.
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We all know that if you get a 6.5 Creedmoor and out your hair in a bun you can kill Elk at 700 yds just by pointing at an Elk
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Now you're talking like an internet expert. Lighter is always better! We all know that if you get a 6.5 Creedmoor and out your hair in a bun you can kill Elk at 700 yds just by pointing at an Elk
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Yikes.......get out the garden hose.......these two need separated!
Jack Handle can't push it out. Oh hey look it's the resident elk forum nutcase.
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We all know that if you get a 6.5 Creedmoor and out your hair in a bun you can kill Elk at 700 yds just by pointing at an Elk You would need a guide and a wet nurse.
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At your service! Your fanboy opinions are so much more legitimate than real life experience. Enjoy your fantasies. Stick with the video games, your stupidity doesn't hurt so much. Yikes.......get out the garden hose.......these two need separated!
Jack Handle can't push it out. Oh hey look it's the resident elk forum nutcase.
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At your service!
Your fanboy opinions are so much more legitimate than real life experience. In your incoherent ramblings, at no point have you ever made any sense. We are all now dumber for having read your posts....and I bet you're not done.
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Are you related to greenhorn? Let me rephrase that question.... Do you find yourself constantly trying to put the square peg in that round hole? You're a winner, Willy. At your service!
Your fanboy opinions are so much more legitimate than real life experience. In your incoherent ramblings, at no point have you ever made any sense. We are all now dumber for having read your posts....and I bet you're not done.
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Well, here I am boys - an elk expert. . Nothing wrong with a 6.5, and plane Jane bullets, IMO. I've taken exactly one elk (one more than some here, I suspect), so it's worth what you paid for it. That cow elk I took at @ 150 yards with a .260 pushing 140 grain Corelokt never knew what hit her. Bang-flop. Mighty friendly on the shoulder, and light to carry also (Rem 725SA). I shot her one-handed, using my left arm braced between two diverging aspen? birch? trees for a rest. No problem. I'd do it again. Previously, my son hd taken a cow caribou in excess of 200 yards with it. Bang-flop. Post elk, I've taken a number of caribou with it to about 400 yards. Haven't lost one yet, tho that's in wide-open tundra, but none went more than 50 yards. The wolf at @30 also fell right over... Well, that pecker-shot bull caribou did (the 400 yd), but he was getting closer all the time post first shot, slowly, so I let him come in for the second shot, where guesstimated distance and ignored wind didn't fug me up... One might say that was a painfully effective placement. For him- didn't bother me much. I am hoping to use the 260 on moose one day- I have confidence it is up to the task, if I don't screw up. I would also use any of my others, .243, 30-30, 270, 30-06, 7x57, .338WM. I have used premiums in the 'o6 and .338 calibers - doesn't seem to make any difference over ho-hums... Premiums run a tingle up your leg, go for it. It ain't what you shoot them with, it's where! Mostly.
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Yea......quit regurgitating.....pacecars.
Everyone knows the 30/06...7 mag....300 mag shooters all develop a flinch that cannot kill animals.
When they switch to the 6mm.........they take home Olympic Gold!
Duh! I’m a much better shot with my 7mm-08 than I am with my 7mm Rem Mag. P
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And I crap much better with cabbage. I’m a much better shot with my 7mm-08 than I am with my 7mm Rem Mag. P
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And I crap much better with cabbage. I’m a much better shot with my 7mm-08 than I am with my 7mm Rem Mag. P I'll post up pics of all the elk I've killed with a 7-08, you can post pics of all your elk you've shot in your life. I'm pretty confident I've shot more with just a 7-08 than you have in your life with your imaginary elk rifles combined. You can go first.
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my biggest bull elk i ever shot was with a bow and arrow it scored 376 B.C. ,my son shot an even bigger bull elk over 380 B.C. with his bow and arrow in Montana a few years ago . so i would bet a 25-06 ,7mm-08 , 6.5 Creedmoor or any other medium size cartridge would work just fine on any elk .
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Am an archer, myself. Strong opinions there too.
We offer non-resident hunts to 'friends'.......as Buzz likes to put it.
We'd never have Jackson Handy types in camp.....not for all the elevator shoes in Buzz's closet.
My favorite cartridge is the .280 remington.
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Am an archer, myself. Strong opinions there too.
We offer non-resident hunts to 'friends'.......as Buzz likes to put it.
We'd never have Jackson Handy types in camp.....not for all the elevator shoes in Buzz's closet.
My favorite cartridge is the .280 remington.
TFF! What's TFF is you're an archer and a think a .243 won't kill elk 100% better than an arrow, 100% of the time. I'd rather hunt elk with a .223 than an arrow...and yes, I've shot elk with a bow, including a 373 bull.
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Everyone saw that great, gut-shot, bull. I always read to stay away from the shoulder, for archery.......but didn't know you should avoid the ribs too. Learn something new every day. Can you post that bull pic once again? How about the other side? Did you and Randy recover that bull with the helicopter? Am an archer, myself. Strong opinions there too.
We offer non-resident hunts to 'friends'.......as Buzz likes to put it.
We'd never have Jackson Handy types in camp.....not for all the elevator shoes in Buzz's closet.
My favorite cartridge is the .280 remington.
TFF! What's TFF is you're an archer and a think a .243 won't kill elk 100% better than an arrow, 100% of the time. I'd rather hunt elk with a .223 than an arrow...and yes, I've shot elk with a bow, including a 373 bull.
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I mentioned 30-06 as I really like the round, especially with 200s and even 220s, but they do kick. I also have (like most of us) more .30 cal stuff than others. I used a .280 a bit, then had it reamed to the Improved 30yrs ago. Good round, didn't need a brake even in the Mountain rifle. My last attempt at a decent shooting 7x57 flubbed on me. I mentioned my 25-06 only because so many older guys use them out here, even on elk. I never shot anything bigger than mule deer with mine. Keep the ideas coming guys! ( sorry you had to get your shoulder replaced SaddleSore) I've seen ea lot of elk killed with a 243, but it makes me nervous every time, lol. While the 25 06 is at home with deer sized critters, my wife took her first elk with one and a 100 grain nobler partition, drt! After that I bumped it up to the 120, and id take an elk with it any day. Most of the mentioned calibers, 25 and above I agree with. Two of my three daughters carried a swede for elk, while the other packed a 7mm 08. Any of those would be fine and easy on the shoulder.
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And I crap much better with cabbage. I’m a much better shot with my 7mm-08 than I am with my 7mm Rem Mag. P Not sure what pooping has to do with shooting better with lower-recoiling cartridges, but congratulations. P
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Thanks.......but I'd liken my best magnum discharges to more of a shotgun. I'll bet you'd be even a better shot with a heavy, match-grade .222. And I crap much better with cabbage. I’m a much better shot with my 7mm-08 than I am with my 7mm Rem Mag. P Not sure what pooping has to do with shooting better with lower-recoiling cartridges, but congratulations. P
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