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Great write up! Unable to go this year, so it's nice to hear the stories and dream of next year. Congrats on a nice bull!
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Congrats on your bull.
I live in elk country and have taken an elk every year for the past 36 years and helped countless others get theirs. One thing that will help you alot is a good quality 10x compact binocular when trying to count points. Keep them handy and take the time to use them. Most often you'll have more than enough time to size up that bull before you have to shoot. Also it's quite common for elk not react to the shot like one would expect for a killing shot. I've had them drop in my scope but I've also seen them casually walk off before dropping. For my binocular I use Leica 10x25 compacts. They're not cheap but they're alot less that full size binoculars and you can keep them within reach all day for those quick judgements. Again congrats on you bull!
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Yes - offhand
Agree on the too much oil. There was much talk about bringing a gun cleaning kit to keep everything "oiled up" so that such things wouldn't happen. I bit my tongue.
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I had and have binocs but it snowed for 4 days straight - frankly got tired of cleaning them every 5 minutes.........
Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.
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Great to hear, thanks for the write up and bullet review
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Congrats on a fine bull - and thanks for posting the pictures looks like great elk country!!
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Good going. I just returned from elk hunting myself, unsuccessful though but I had a good time. What unit did you hunt?
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You should talk to your pals about what brand/type of oil they used. Also if they even oil up the fire pin spring.
I've found through my inline muzzleloader that not all oils are equal. Superlube (a grease) will freeze in 20� weather rendering your gun useless. I've also had a few oils get rather sluggish to the point of the bolt (hammer of sorts for my muzzlestuffer) going home at such a lethargic pace that it failed to set off primers.
I now test oils by placing the heavily oiled part in the freezer for a few hours and testing performance. Curently using Gun-X oils (same outfit makes Reel-X that I like) with great success.
Something to think about........
Great elk hunt by the way!
Rick
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B: Saw the pics on my other computer.....NICE! Congrats!
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Congratulations indeed. That's great!
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