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raghorn 5x5, bowtech guardian, slick trick heads, 35 yards first shot, 2nd shot 72 yards.

Toby Joe

Me-
cow- utah 150 yards
Remington 700 300 win mag
Partition bullet -
Partner-
cow- 70 yds
300 weatherby mag
partition bullet

Shot my biggest bull ever this year, a nice 6x6, with my 300RUM. Don't want to piss off the "ethics police", so I'll leave it with a simple "he was out there a ways".

Me - Cow at 420 yards
.300 Win Mag/180 grain Accubond

Bro. In Law - Cow ~ 400 yards
.300 Win Mag/200 grain Accubond

Two others in camp didn't fill thier tags.

5 pt bull in Colorado at 320 yds. 2 shots fired from a standing rest, both to the boiler with a 338 RUM 225 gr Nosler Accubond, Burris 4.5-14 ballistic plex. Congratulations to everyone else!

Heck....no worries. Compared to saddlesore's bull, that could be 20 yards!!

2 for 2.

Me: 6x5 w/ a Win M70 in .300H&H shooting .200grn Partitions. 1st shot through the lungs at 450yrds w/ a finishing shot at 50.

Dad: 1x3 w/ a custom Mauser in .338Win mag shooting (I think)225grn TSX's. 1 shot into the body (had to hit it as it was trotting through heavy trees and finishing shot to the neck. Both at under 100yrds.

I got a 5x5 here in Colorado. 30/06, 180 grain Hornady "interlock" spire point--handloads. 75 yards 1 shot & he's down. CB

25 elk. 5 with 30-06's and 5 with 300WM.
11 with some type of 300 magnum.
Bullet weights from 140 gr to 260 grain.

Hats off to the 2 successful bow hunters.

Me a spike at 513 yards .338 Allen Mag 300gr SMK at 3400. one shot

Dad a spike at 550 yards .338 Allen Mag 300gr SMK st 3400.one shot

I've seen your stick Joecool. 550 yds is like kickin the dog with that AM. That thing is a drooolllll machine.

Elkcreek Thanks
That�s the only shot I had but dad had the chance to take his the day before at 930 yards but it was in a really nasty spot so he waited. I really wanted to see him drop it at 930.

Saw over 120 of them. Glassed and stalked them, tracked them in the snow and found out they are much more mobile and wary than deer. Need to polish my act. Saw lots of other game. Now hooked on elk after my first hunt. E

We went 4 for 5. Two with 30-06 using Winchester's new bullet (disappointing)
My son shot his with his lefty 308 BDL using factory 150 Corelokts. Not a bang flop but only walked about 4-5 steps.

I hunted all of 1 1/2 days. I passed on the bulls in the group we had settled on, waiting for a better look at the 'big one'. He showed himself the second morning and was a 390+ bull. His right main beam was busted just above the G3. I saw that and came home.

We had too much meat already and it was too nasty a spot to shoot just any old horns. It's fun looking at them though. I passed some meat bulls along side the road on the way home. Some friends are ticked that I didn't shoot one so they could have the meat! I guess they should have volunteered to come.

The 4th one was a 373 bull killed with a 30-378 @ 600++ yds using a 200 grain SMK by a 16-year-old.

Now I probably won't get drawn again for 10 years!

Seems that some are just jealous that they don't know how to get close to elk. For your info magnumb nuts, it probably was close than 5 yds. Some of us here,still know how to hunt elk without sniping them fromm long distances. If you would shut your mouth and listen to others, you might learn something

I topped a small rise and there were about 15 elk standing and bedded in some aspen whips about 8 ft tall,but none over and inch in diameter. My partner had just shot an elk about 60 yd away and they were all wacthing him. They were so intent on the other guy, they never knew I was there until I shot.

I have shot more elk at less than 25 yds than I have at over 100

Cow #1
.30-06, 165g North Fork @ 2812fps
126 lasered yards
42 yard pack out

Cow #2
.30-06, 165g North Fork @ 2812fps
~25 yards
6 foot pack out

Pictures and story here: http://coyote-hunter-2007-elk-hunt.blogspot.com/

What's gotten under your saddle....sore?

skymule says he got an elk out there a ways.......I remembered your post and was impressed with yours being taken at so close a range (4 yards... right?).......I merely make a statement to skymule that in this specific thread anyway (where all sorts of different distances that have been mentioned), 20 yards could be considered out there's a ways, especially compared to your 4 yard shot..........GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I'd suggest that before you start gettin' all defensive, losin' it over absolutely nuthin' and then makin' yourself look stupid.....better to ask for clarification first rather than suffering the latter.

Don' know where I could have been seen as the promoter of long distance shootin' or any other style one might choose to engage in, nor the judge and jury of such as your post clearly indicates that you are....nor have I ever attacked you over any subject or post here on "the fire". So your above post makes even less sense to me given these facts, if that's even possible. Actually, I recently submitted a post in this section where I stuck the workin' end of a rifle into the shoulder of a 3X4 bull and dumped him on my boot some years ago............so, as you say, I'm "jealous"........jealous of what? That's a pretty high horse you're ridin' there..........

Jumping to conclusions that are so off base can obviously cause results that are totally unnecessary and uncalled for, such as your post. Why take the time, energy and anger it takes to plan a negatively based response and then type it as if it is the gospel when the more prudent approach (especially when there's no negative history between us whatsoever) would be to use less energy and express less anger by postin' a simple, "hey, what did you mean by that?", if in fact, you couldn't understand a simple, straightforward post.

Can't for the life of me see how you could have gotten to where you are from my post to skymule....unless any opportunity to turn somethin' around was all that you needed to satisfy your own needs or desire to do so......but then I'm still at a loss to see why you'd choose to do so.

There was only one post in this entire thread that was definitely callin' into question anyone's ethical huntin' practices and it was yours......no one else's.....yours and yours alone. Seems others that shot their elk over a distance further than YOU deem ethical ("some of us who still know how to elk hunt" and "sniping them from long distances", whatever distance you've determined that to be) should have much more of an issue with your statements than you with mine.....by a loooooooong shot........pun intended.

First Archery Elk Hunt this year.

Didn't get one but it was exciting to be in the woods with the big boys bugling just like in the videos. Just couldn't get close.

The same thought has crossed my mind.

My apologies and regrets for my post Magnumb, I took it you were calling my statements bull, not that I shot a bull, as I had posted I had shot a cow.