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Come on Mac-toughen up!...grins
Don't you know that the 15 lb elk rig is the up n coming for the steep and deep and for the dark timber where the elkies live.
Mark D
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If a person isn't up to carrying a 15# gun up a little molehill then they might want to get some new batteries for their pacemaker. Energizers would be good. It would also be a good idea to hire some body to tote the elk out for you being as I have heard rumors to the fact that they weigh a shade over 15# and you certainly wouldn't want to engage in any heavy lifting and strain yourself.
500 yds? I thought the guy wanted a long range elk gun. My mistake.
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My long eared buddy pictured at the left dont even break a sweat carrying my 15 pound 338RUM. Then again this is not the topic of the thread.
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thankfully I won't be packing my whole elk around every day from dark to dark, only the rifle, and if the rifle is 15 pounds....ouch, that added with tent and survival gear in my pack would be like packing part of an elk around all day every day....
Jeff
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I know of a factory 338 Ultra mag that has over a 1000 rounds through it and is still shooting half MOA....
All the best things in life, live on the other side off fear.
The true eye sees not the despair of its victims, only the elegance of equilibrium. It's a demonstration of superior judgment.
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A 15lb rifle is a series of concessions I'd be unwilling to make,because I don't like to paint myself into corners.
Niche Tools lose their appeal fast.................
Brad says: "Can't fault Rick for his pity letting you back on the fire... but pity it was and remains. Nothing more, nothing less. A sad little man in a sad little dream."
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A 15lb rifle is a series of concessions I'd be unwilling to make,because I don't like to paint myself into corners.
Niche Tools lose their appeal fast................. Amen to that... Mark D
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Dober, I could carry TWO Kimber Montana's easier and weighing less than the ONE mentioned above at 15lbs... one in 7 WSM and one in 30 WSM (grins).
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15lbs sounds like a nightmare!!
I would rather carry my 10.5lb 340 and just deal with the recoil any day of the week...
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340, I carried a 10 lb 338 for quite a while... I slowly went down in weight... 8.5, 8 and currently 7.25 lbs... now I'm contemplating a Kimber Little Sky in 308 at under 6.5lbs... that's about as light as I'd go but am dead certain no elk, at least out to 450 yards, could shrug off a proper hit from it.
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Brad, I agree on both points! I just have a soft spot for my 340. I would not mind trying a Kimber Montana in 325WSM for elk-I would think it would have plenty of punch, shoots pretty flat, and nice and light(mostly,it just gives me another excuse to buy a new rifle) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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Hey, I'll endorse that excuse <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />... !
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..of course, a new Kimber "little sky" in 308 would be nice too. I kind of like my Kimbers, even though it seems like it is in fashion in some quarters lately to bash 'em! I have the 308 in the 84M, great rifle, but too nice of stock and finish to be a good mountain rifle,IMO. There, now I have excuses for 2 new rifles <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
"For joy of knowing what may not be known we take the golden road to Samarkand."
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For an elk shoot it would do, for a elk hunt no tanks (at least in the steep/deep/ugly country where Brad and I clamber about).
Mark D
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A Montana 7WSM would an Elk tippin' sumbitch...................
Brad says: "Can't fault Rick for his pity letting you back on the fire... but pity it was and remains. Nothing more, nothing less. A sad little man in a sad little dream."
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Don't tell my better half but I have one ordered for her as we speak.
Well I do have it ordered not sure she'll buy into the whole for her deal.
I won't have it set in time for this season but will get some yotes sorted out with it this winter and she has a late elk tag that will most likely be the first time it is shot in true anger.
Mark D
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140 TSX here we come... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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Yep between you and Stick you guys do a good job of spendign me monies.......
I am blaming it on you two so if I need your couch for a night or so...
Mark D
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I was at Sportsman's Whorehouse,spied two Montana's in the rack and got a preemptive boner.
Was prick teased via 270 and 300WSM. If there'd been a 7 there,I'd of impressed the Wife(yet again).
Had to poke a GL3 Loomis in the cart,to get my mind right,after the letdown.....................(grin)
Brad says: "Can't fault Rick for his pity letting you back on the fire... but pity it was and remains. Nothing more, nothing less. A sad little man in a sad little dream."
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I kind of look at it as Viagra.......or was it those darn lil Barnes blue pills......too old to member anymo.
Mark D
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