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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Bent" data-source="post: 319040" data-attributes="member: 19685"><p>my dad has been hunting elk for 25 years as well as the rest of my family. I'm a new bee and have only been hunting them for around 5 years. but i have learned that people lose a lot of elk when they try and shoot them through the chest</p><p></p><p>remember this is just my experience and the rough ride that the horses were forced to under go to chase these elk for 5 or more miles in some cases to catch these elk. </p><p></p><p>this elk i'm talking about was shot about 5 miles from the park line in gardiner and was chased up hill all the way past the last road on its way to the park line. i crossed his blood trail at the last road about 2.5 miles from where it was shot and it was bleeding a reasonable amount of blood every breath. or about every 5 feet.</p><p></p><p>as far as i know the kid got his elk but there was a lot of unnecisary work to do so.</p><p></p><p>i don't have horses and likewise prefer a shoot and drop type of method. i do this by shooting them in the spine. either i miss over the top of them. i hit them in the spine and the drop right where they are and only have their front legs. or i miss low and take both lungs and possibly the heart.</p><p></p><p>this is my method because in alot the situations where i hunt there are alot of hunters and the game is few. so the hunters will some times take your elk if it gets away. and lets face it i don't like to trail and track animals.</p><p></p><p>i have been shooting 150gr nosler balistic silvertips. i have seen them one shot elk out to 300 yards at least 5 times. they work well and are great for their purpose. i think that they would be just fine out to 500-600 yards and then they are not accurate enough at least in my set up to do the job. Now i'm trying the berger vld 168 grains in my 7mm mag and have seen that these bullets have performed out to 1000 yards just fine. Now it is my job to get them there.</p><p></p><p>for me elk is what i hunt and if i can find an elk that isn't spooked they are easy to kill. with a high shoulder or spine shot. if they are spooked and adrenaline shocked they can have their heart shot in two and still run a half mile or more. they are a hard animal to call easy or hard to kill. if you can find a bull that isn't experting the shot he is easy to drop. but if he has been running or knows whats coming he will fight and make you run almost all the lead you carry through the gun before he will finally give up and die. like people said before this may only happen after they took you another 1.5 miles back into the back country and through the worst timber they can find before they finally die.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Bent, post: 319040, member: 19685"] my dad has been hunting elk for 25 years as well as the rest of my family. I'm a new bee and have only been hunting them for around 5 years. but i have learned that people lose a lot of elk when they try and shoot them through the chest remember this is just my experience and the rough ride that the horses were forced to under go to chase these elk for 5 or more miles in some cases to catch these elk. this elk i'm talking about was shot about 5 miles from the park line in gardiner and was chased up hill all the way past the last road on its way to the park line. i crossed his blood trail at the last road about 2.5 miles from where it was shot and it was bleeding a reasonable amount of blood every breath. or about every 5 feet. as far as i know the kid got his elk but there was a lot of unnecisary work to do so. i don't have horses and likewise prefer a shoot and drop type of method. i do this by shooting them in the spine. either i miss over the top of them. i hit them in the spine and the drop right where they are and only have their front legs. or i miss low and take both lungs and possibly the heart. this is my method because in alot the situations where i hunt there are alot of hunters and the game is few. so the hunters will some times take your elk if it gets away. and lets face it i don't like to trail and track animals. i have been shooting 150gr nosler balistic silvertips. i have seen them one shot elk out to 300 yards at least 5 times. they work well and are great for their purpose. i think that they would be just fine out to 500-600 yards and then they are not accurate enough at least in my set up to do the job. Now i'm trying the berger vld 168 grains in my 7mm mag and have seen that these bullets have performed out to 1000 yards just fine. Now it is my job to get them there. for me elk is what i hunt and if i can find an elk that isn't spooked they are easy to kill. with a high shoulder or spine shot. if they are spooked and adrenaline shocked they can have their heart shot in two and still run a half mile or more. they are a hard animal to call easy or hard to kill. if you can find a bull that isn't experting the shot he is easy to drop. but if he has been running or knows whats coming he will fight and make you run almost all the lead you carry through the gun before he will finally give up and die. like people said before this may only happen after they took you another 1.5 miles back into the back country and through the worst timber they can find before they finally die. [/QUOTE]
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