Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Bevy of good elk rifles

Take your favorite as you will have the tendency to grab it anyway. I always take a short to medium range rifle and a medium to long range to cover all the bases.

Good luck...

I'd take Addicted's Montana.

Eeeny, meeny, miney, mo...............

I will have my Featherweight 300WSM and the M700 35 Whelen this year. I love the Whelen for elk. The caliber is great, but the rifle is also a pleasure to carry for long treks. They will both do all I need done in elk country.

It would be the 338WM and 35 Whelen, but the 338 is going in for a new barrel!

I would take your 35 Whelen and the 06, I am not much of a 7MM fan, and I know people who have shot many elk with them who have traded up, but I would like to take one with my 7X57 some day, and worked up a 175g load a couple of winters ago for my Ruger with that in mind.

I think 30-06 is enough and that is what I bought my son, though both of us think our 358 Win is just as good. So far all mine were taken with my 300 Weatherby, but I have a new 338RCM that I just sighted in today, and it is definitely number one for the next few years, after opening day - I plan to pack my 416 Rigby on opening days until it gets an elk.

So, you need a harem of rifles because each brings its own personality to the sport.

Sleep on it you will roustup nowen. All cal's are good but only you know the rifles.

All fine elk rifles, I think it would be hard to beat the 7mm RM shooting 160's!

I thought we were talking "elk rifles" here

Hi All, new here. My 2 cents...I hope to do it this year with my Kimber 84 338Federal. Shooting 200gr Speer Hot-Cor's at 2750fps using 52gr Alliant 2000MR, per their book and my chrono.

Regardless, it will be a fine walk in the woods looking for elk with a 6lb11oz rifle (total w/3x9 Leupold VII and LRD reticle).

Good Luck to All!

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Welome to the fire....Sounds like you will fit in well here...Hope you have thick skin though....

Thanks BSA, nice welcome. I've been known to be thick on some things and thin on others. Guess it depends on my day, Anyway, I may have been born at night but not last night.

Take care out there.

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That 338 and 200 combo sounds like a beast! Good luck!

I'd take the 7RM. Remember an accurate rifle capable of taking elk at 400yrds will also be good at 50yrds. Often the reverse is not as true.

It's settled, I'm taking the 30-06 and my 35 Whelen. The 30-06 will be pushing 180 gr. Partitions and the 35 will be pushing 250 gr. hornady Spire points. I am actually taking a third rifle to leave at a friends house in case I have to fly up there and don't want to fool with the TSA. It is a Winchester push feed M70 in 30-06.

Nice, I'll be in Idaho with the Whelen! Hopefully it's a good year for the Whelen.