Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting 6.8 SPC for elk- is it enough gun for 250+ yards?

I"d actually say given the right bullet that a broadside 250 yard shot in the ribs would be gravy for the round too, but now how many times does that happen? Only elk I"ve seen standing still mostly were grazing bulls when I had cow tags...

Jeff, guess I'm lucky as a couple of the honey holes are rather close range,being in the 75 to 150 yards of open meadows with a small creek flowing through the middle. Always holds elk yearly without pressure. Never any trophy animals but not what I am looking for anyway.
Have a buddy that all he hunts with is a 32 winnie, always has and has killed elk and deer every damn year(sickning) and he has killed some monster elk. I wish I had a picture of his gun, also wish that gun could repeat the hunting stories.
Anyway, wish the WOA 6.8 would arrive so I can start dialing it in.

Hmmm...and he needs a guide for turkeys and moose...Interesting. Go get those dark timber bulls with your 6.8 buddy. Flinch

Flinch
So not everyone knows how to call turkeys or where to find/how t find moose... does it make one a dumbazz because they use a guide?

I mean the guy comes up with some strange topics, but geez... you are now circumspect if you happen to hire a guide?

Jimmy

I bet that 32 is neat... I have a win in 32wcf that I kill deer and hogs with every year so its all in choosing the right bullet and then shot placement and distances... One of these years I'll find an elk in the right place too.Not for the 32wcf but for something else of course. The 6.8 isn't anything but a slower 270 and I kill deer all the time with my 6mmWOA which is a slower 243...

Jeff

I look at it this way - he talks like he's been there and done that and yet he hires a guide to kill two of the dumbest animals on the planet. I could have killed several cow moose with a big rock in my lifetime and merriams turkeys... small children find them lacking in challenge. The guy is a total farce, it's not that he's hunted with a guide, it's that it doesn't appear that he's hunted any other way - if those pics are really of him and that's all he's got.

My point exactly! Flinch

Ummmmm.. You guys realize those pix are all of different people.

Our brooks didn't kill any of them. He's a liar and troll.

I think the two he posted of the cow moose and the turkeys are of the same guy - couldn't say if that is him or not but either way I'm not impressed.

Anyone who thinks we're dumb enough to believe what "brooksrange" and others like him -- Liar24 comes to mind -- spout out is clearly pretty stupid themselves. I've seen way more from br than anyone wants to, and it all varies from silly to stupid, with some insulting and sneering thrown in. He is a waste of time and attention, and clearly has no idea what he's talking about.

Dennis

.............Brooksrange!..............Out to 250 yards on elk with an AR platform, I wouldn`t exactly feel comfortable using a 6.8. At a 150 to 175 yards? Possible!

In terms of a minimum impact energy on elk, a better comfort zone if it were me would be 1400-1500 lbs...........Just get closer!

Since you have other and more powerful rifles as I read that you do, I`d use one of them before the 6.8...........

Really...you think this "brooksrange" guy actually owns anything? Seriously...you've read his stuff and still think there's some valid point to answering him?

Get real...

Dennis

BROOKSRANGE DOESN'T EXIST....IT IS A TROLL ALIAS!! The pictures he posted are of three different people named Brooks that he found doing a google search. You could repeat it and find those pictures too. Rancho Loco found and posted all the links. Good work Rancho. He hasn't posted since 12/12 maybe he'll re-surface maybe not. Just as likely he will just fabricate another alais and reappear under that alais. He seems to get some perverse enjoyment out of starting contentious threads. We would all be better off ignoring his post.

+1
thats why I called BS on his one posting and he basically tried calling me the troll.

A thought that has crossed my mind...is that it is a group of troublemakers working together under the alias, or perhaps a set of them. Looking at pieces posted under the term "brooksrange" over the past several months there seem to be some distinctions amongst styles presented in different threads -- or even at different times in the same thread.

I'm thinking maybe some stupidboys are playing games...

Dennis

I think the guys that want to use the 6.8 for elk are way above us. They need to be using it for grizzly just to show their stuff.

No Tom, your wrong! He did call you a troll
muledeer, humm....it is something to think about.

I was trying to sugarcoat it.

No. 'Bout like shootin an Elk at 10 feet with a BB gun. Get a 270WSM.

In spite of all the name calling and BS, no one has yet stepped up and said their favorite Elk cartridge was a 25 Remington. Since the difference between it and the 6.8 is marginal at best, why no advocates for it?

Get a 30-06 and be done with it....are you men or mice?

why don't the moderators note his ip referenced from all his alias' and ban his azz clown existance forever? This has been a waste of 10 pages due to him, and all the other bs post/threads he has started. What an annoyance.