Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting "7mm-08, elk rifle wannabe"!

He ran up to the elk from a 100 yard and pushed him over??? Interesting technique.

Nah, he had to have been on PCP.

BCSteve;
I hope you are getting the milder weather that we are here in the Okanagan - I've had enough already of the cold and white stuff.

Anyway, pursuant to your quote, I'm thinking that perhaps this chap was originally from the Midwest where the time honored tradition of "cow tipping" is practiced?

I however admit here and now that from a lot of personal experience cowboying on weekends for a local rancher, whenever we've tried tipping BC range cattle it's always ended poorly for me.

Based upon those less than favorable memories, I believe I shall forego the tipping of the bull elk and leave the method for those more fearless than I!

Have a good weekend BCSteve.

Regards,
Dwayne

He's the type of "guide" lots of forum members base their "elk rifle" opinions off of..

Running the numbers on a ballistics program shows a 7mm Win Mag shooting a 140 gr bullet at 250 yards is about equal to a 7mm-08 shooting the same bullet at 100 yards.

So would that mean that the 7mmMag is too small too, or would I need to keep shots under 100 yards with it?

Sometimes one just can't let facts get in the way of a good tale.

Does that guy think anybody is dumb enough to believe that story? Even if it were true (and it's not) he shouldn't have the nerve to retell it for fear of being called out for BS.

That is a lot of holes to put into an animal. I wonder how blackpowder or archery hunters manage success?

How does this guy then have the nerve to recommend the .280 Rem? If the 7mm-08 is useless on Elk then it would seem to me you'd have to step up a little higher on the ladder than .280.

If the elk was truly unconcerned at 80 yds. why didn't ya just walk up and shoot real close like to begin with. I've killed acouple elk with my .260 Remington which is a smaller .308 based cartridge and lighter bullets. One shot put both down.

Were ya using varmint bullets ?

This is the same guy that also calls the 308win the "highpowered Isuzu" IIRC. But, in similar fashion to insinuations cited about, hails the 30-06 as vastly superior to the 308 in every way and somehow concludes that the 06 is just miles ahead of the same bullet trailing by maybe 100 fps.

You've heard the expression after a hard to believe story "You can't make this stuff up?"
Well, this story proves that old adage WRONG. You obviously CAN make this stuff up.

That's funny......

Jeff O:

I'm on the same track as you. It's BS.

I would like to know more about the source of this story. I think it's pure fantasy fiction.

KC

What I didn't like about this story is the ending, something with a little more flare at the end like,
" And then beast rose from the dead, sprouted wings and flew down the valley into a neighboring village, setting it ablaze with its firey breath."
The one the author used was so anticlimactic, I mean really, he just died? After eating all that lead? Not the way I would have wrote it.

14 shots? I've never seen an elk that would stand around that long and they had two?

(Where did I put my boots...?)

KC, the link I posted didn't show up as a "hot" link, but at a minimum you can paste it into your browsers "go" window... should take you right to the source.

I kept waiting for the punchline- that the whole thing was bullchit- but it never came!

I'm thinking he's either a complete wack job story teller or has a powerful dry sense of humor.

I saw a very nice Model 7 in 7-08 with a laminated stock for only $450 yesterday. Glad I didn't buy it now.

John

There's enough Bullchitt in that story to fertilize the entire state of Montana... Twice!

Scared elk and any elk hit poorly can be darned hard to put down with pretty much anything. The 7-08, or anything remotely like it would have been perfectly suited to that fantasy shooting scenario.

The author should stick to selling used cars to old ladies.......