If you skip this trip, will you be younger and more experienced and prepared next year?
Just go, grab an elk hunting book, cram on the Randy Newberg, Brian Call Gritty YouTube videos,
Well, you can keep going to smaller and smaller calibers until you get tired of spending an extra day and a night trying to track a wounded elk.
BTDT. I think .30 and up is a better plan.
You might think about .35 Whelen Ackley Improved.
Big thump, lower recoil than .358 magnums, simple and relatively inexpensive upgrade with a rebarrel. Easy and cheap to form .30-06 brass into .35 Whelen AI
Jason,
Why don’t you name those ranches here, and post the ranch names and videos to YouTube?
Publicity would make it more difficult for state politicians to cover for them. You might thus also make the ranch/outfitters show up in online searches.
Yes, Charlie Robertson’s Score-High bedding product is great and easy to work, proven by many years and many, many, many superbly accurate LR rifles.
Score-High and Charlie are the go-to place for custom builds. Can’t recommend enough.