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Nice work.. It will eat well.
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Congrats Tanner on the supply of meat. Now about that miserable old .308 Montana. Oops, I guess I shouldn't talk!
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http://www.backcountrychronicles.com/elk-pack-out-weight/Looks like Tanner shot about a 1.5 yr old cow, and minus the neck and rib meat would be right around 110 pounds. Tender vittles indeed and for a $41 tag, pretty cheap other than sweat equity. CO does not require rib meat or neck meat to come out, I never liked rib meat anyway. I shot a antlerless elk in ML season about the same age. I say antlerless as it was a bull , but had no horns an no testicles. Processed meat was real close to the chart 110-120 lbs. Then I shot a small 5X in 2 rifle season that was maybe 2&1/2 years old, not more than 3 and it was close to the chart too. Both are exception eating I process all my own meat. I have found once you start to shoot cow elk in the real late seasons ,like early January, meat quality starts to deteriorate when they start to use up some of their body fat.
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Worst part of the whole ordeal was forgetting to pick up my piece of Lapua brass, and then not being able to track it down!
Tanner LOL. My buddies think I'm crazy when I've got an animal down and I walk in circles muttering to myself looking for my ejected brass.
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'Dunno what to tell ya' Ken, you must just shoot way bigger schitt than me....
I can tell ya' this, a hungry ass college stoodent like me sure as hell ain't going to leave meat on the mountain....
Tanner Congrats, buddy! It'll be a tasty winter! We boned out 3 antler less elk this year (two 5-7 yo cows and a yearling bull), and the cows each yielded 175-180 lbs including rib meat, neck meat, and a chunk of liver. The yearling bull was 78 lbs. Nice to see that .308/155 Skinner combo stacking the meat! What was bullet performance like?
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I can't really tell ya' too much about what the bullet did Jordan, as I did not get into the chest cavity at all (gutless). I know that it exited, and the cow died fairly quick. I'm assuming it souped up the vital pretty good as she did not make it far.
I'll gut the next one and see what the heck... Although the Montana is shooting 165 NBTs really well too!
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