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25-06 elk bullets
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 925903" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>I have used the 117 Sierra Pro Hunter for years on deer and it is the best deer killing bullet I have ever used. It may be just a might soft for elk. I helped do control hunting on a big farm for 15 years where my buddy and I took 100 deer a year and we shot them with many different calibers and bullets. We used a lot of different bullets in out 25-06s. It was before they came out with all these new bonded and mono bullets. The toughest bullets we used were the Nosler partition 115 and 120 gr and the 120 Speer Grand Slam. My buddy used the 120 Grand Slam when he was taken on a deer hunt by his boss as a Christmas gift to a trophy ranch where the deer were really big and the ranch suggested to being at least a 7mm mag. He killed two HUGE body HEAVY rack bucks and dropped each in their tracks with complete through and through both shoulder shots at an average of 250 yards. Load was 52 grs H4831 with the 120 GS in a Rem case and CCIBR2 primer. </p><p>I shot some NC deer with 120 GS with 49 grs IMR 4350, Rem case CCI 250 primer which did 2950 fps from my 26" barrel. I deliberately waited and shot a few deer that were facing me in the chest to see how the penetration was. The only bullet I recovered was one that came from a buck that was only 40 yards away. I found the bullet laying in the right ball joint that it had shattered. It was a text book mushroom and weight was 87 grs. From my experience if I was to ever use my 25-06 for elk, which I would feel perfectly OK with using it, I would use these 120 Speer Grand Slams because I still have some on the shelf. I would just stay away from an entrance into a shoulder but would be OK with an angle out a shoulder. The GS were really too tough for my liking for the between 100 and 200 LB deer in NC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 925903, member: 10178"] I have used the 117 Sierra Pro Hunter for years on deer and it is the best deer killing bullet I have ever used. It may be just a might soft for elk. I helped do control hunting on a big farm for 15 years where my buddy and I took 100 deer a year and we shot them with many different calibers and bullets. We used a lot of different bullets in out 25-06s. It was before they came out with all these new bonded and mono bullets. The toughest bullets we used were the Nosler partition 115 and 120 gr and the 120 Speer Grand Slam. My buddy used the 120 Grand Slam when he was taken on a deer hunt by his boss as a Christmas gift to a trophy ranch where the deer were really big and the ranch suggested to being at least a 7mm mag. He killed two HUGE body HEAVY rack bucks and dropped each in their tracks with complete through and through both shoulder shots at an average of 250 yards. Load was 52 grs H4831 with the 120 GS in a Rem case and CCIBR2 primer. I shot some NC deer with 120 GS with 49 grs IMR 4350, Rem case CCI 250 primer which did 2950 fps from my 26" barrel. I deliberately waited and shot a few deer that were facing me in the chest to see how the penetration was. The only bullet I recovered was one that came from a buck that was only 40 yards away. I found the bullet laying in the right ball joint that it had shattered. It was a text book mushroom and weight was 87 grs. From my experience if I was to ever use my 25-06 for elk, which I would feel perfectly OK with using it, I would use these 120 Speer Grand Slams because I still have some on the shelf. I would just stay away from an entrance into a shoulder but would be OK with an angle out a shoulder. The GS were really too tough for my liking for the between 100 and 200 LB deer in NC. [/QUOTE]
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