Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting What is it with rifles and bullets here?

And it will never be understood by those who wish to start blasting soon as they can see 'em.

If you don't sleep well after tracking for a day its probably cause you croaked of a heart attack when the raven took off from right above your head in that bedding area...

Most of the stuff on elk rifles is silly.

Especially when you and memtb chime in

It's going to be so exciting when you kill your first elk.

Be sure and make a thread.

Handi has never shot anything but the bull and lots of it. He a no account troll.

Lol two clueless old fùcks lol

But think how exciting it will be when she actually kills her first elk.

That thread will be epic.

It's never not funny when a girl forgets she has a history here on the Campfire. HandyJobsForHobos has never killed an elk.

What you haven't realized is how much fun it is for us to discuss buying a new rifle for a special hunt. Something that we can't justify around here. Yes most of us know we can take our deer rifle Elk hunting but it's fun to have a reason to buy a .300 Winchester.

I know this going to shock everyone but Johnny "got-no-family" Burns is wrong again......weird.

Next he'll say he isn't 300lbs and doesn't drink like a fish lol lol

Well that's kind of a stupid thing to do. Go buy a gun you're not familiar with, in a cartridge you don't need, with enough recoil that you won't practice with it.

Of course most here probably just hangout in camp an drink.

I live in elk country and have for years. Over the years, our elk have expanded their range from just the national forest area to the ranches and open prairie. We have gone from woods type hunting to plains type hunting. Now, the 06 is still fairly popular but the .300 and 7mm Mag. have a big following. Simply because they are easy to hit with and kill well at longer ranges. If you can shoot. Not that smaller calibers won't but the bigger calibers seem to have an advantage.
Several years ago, we were hunting in a very open area. One of the guys packed a very nice custion .25-06. That morning we found a large herd of elk traveling to cover.I was just along to help out as I had taken an elk already. My pal shot a nice 5 pt. bull right in the lungs. I saw the bullet hit. But the animal continued going across a trail, a jeep from Cheyenne came along and a guy jumped out with a ,375 and shot the bull before he could fall. Next fall my pal had a bigger rifle.
In years past the .300 Savage was very popular when the elk were in the timber. Until the 60s deer and antelope were the main game, then the area was open for 25 limited permits. The hunters merely took the rifles they had and shot elk at close ranges. I haven't seem a .300 Savage in the woods for years.
The local hunters are not the hicks eastern people seem to portray them. There are many rifle looneys in this country as any. Something that should be kept in mind.

Talking about elk rifles and bullets is nothing more than a way for a person who has little experience with Elk hunting to remain excited about going... Years ago when I first went elk hunting, I was so excited that I did a lot of thinking - prepping to hunt... all of the thinking and prepping for the hunt was exciting... I honestly believe this is all the talk about guns and bullet is about for most people.

I remember I had a Sako 338 WM that I took and my 30-06 as a back up... either would have been great guns but that 338 WM shot incredible groups with the max load of RL-19 and Nosler Accubonds 225 gr... I just had to take it... I still regret selling that gun but sometimes we just make mistakes

Fuddlore galore.

I'm sure you'd know about that

We don't think the locals are hicks. It's Westerners who are always saying we in the East overgun ourselves

Uh oh....somebody's feelers got hurt....

Johnny red-face is all fired up now lol

Oh my Jessie’s girl, straight stalker shiit you got going on. Only thing worse on these boards than a sock puppet is a chickenshiit that talks [bleep] without posting pics of themselves. Rest assured the only “beet” red face around is your moms after I pile her up.😘

Since you asked so eloquently, here’s a pic of me last week. Just to keep you horned up and your lip quivering

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They’re way ahead of the curve, though 10% oh hunters kill most the bulls. Know lotsa folks from pe ell, I’m sure I know em. Tried a chainsaw whinch about 30 years ago up toutle, didn’t get a full spool reeled in before I boned it out and threw it on a packboard. Tried Tommy moore blocks with haywire, same pain in the ass. Unless you can get a quad/sxs close I’ve found it easier and less fuucking around to quarter/bone em out personally. Looks like Wyoming is the place to hunt elk.