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Minimum cartridge for 1000 yard elk
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<blockquote data-quote="AJ Peacock" data-source="post: 171726" data-attributes="member: 4885"><p>Jim,</p><p></p><p>800 yds is a whole different story than 1000yds. A 300Rum with good bullets is a great elk cartridge at that range. I'd personally rather have a 338, but would not feel under gunned with a 300Rum up to 800yds or so. I have seen bull elk taken with everything down to a 22-250! Heard of several taken with that until one day a perfect shot on the spine right behind the ear and the bull just turned and looked. A second shot an inch back from that spot broke his neck?? I had a neighbor when I was a boy that hunted with a 243 and killed everything in the country with it (including a rather large 5x5 bull elk). I saw a bull that had been hit 5 times by 4 different guys starting at 8am and finally killed by my neighbor with the 243 that afternoon. The other 4 slugs were from a 30-06 x 2, 300wm, 300H&H. That bull refused to slow down and ran all day with a broken front leg, a slug in the hip and a couple weak hits in the body until he was DRTed with the 243 in the side of the head. </p><p></p><p>From my experience, bullet placement is everything. It's also a fact that bullet placement isn't always perfect, and the longer the shot, the more things can conspire to mess with your shot. The second thing I know for a fact, some elk when not hit perfectly just will not go down or stop. My dad shot a cow elk in the late hunt one year and we trailed her for 4 miles until we finally jumped her and killed her. The first shot had clipped the vein at the top of her heart, the entrance/exit holes had evidently plugged up and the heart just kept sucking the blood in and pumping it out! That shot was an inch from being a perfect heart shot; I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it. Maybe a larger caliber would have left a larger exit wound and she would have expired sooner? I've also seen many DRT's with all kinds of calibers. For my money, the bigger the better for elk at long range.</p><p></p><p>AJ</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AJ Peacock, post: 171726, member: 4885"] Jim, 800 yds is a whole different story than 1000yds. A 300Rum with good bullets is a great elk cartridge at that range. I'd personally rather have a 338, but would not feel under gunned with a 300Rum up to 800yds or so. I have seen bull elk taken with everything down to a 22-250! Heard of several taken with that until one day a perfect shot on the spine right behind the ear and the bull just turned and looked. A second shot an inch back from that spot broke his neck?? I had a neighbor when I was a boy that hunted with a 243 and killed everything in the country with it (including a rather large 5x5 bull elk). I saw a bull that had been hit 5 times by 4 different guys starting at 8am and finally killed by my neighbor with the 243 that afternoon. The other 4 slugs were from a 30-06 x 2, 300wm, 300H&H. That bull refused to slow down and ran all day with a broken front leg, a slug in the hip and a couple weak hits in the body until he was DRTed with the 243 in the side of the head. From my experience, bullet placement is everything. It's also a fact that bullet placement isn't always perfect, and the longer the shot, the more things can conspire to mess with your shot. The second thing I know for a fact, some elk when not hit perfectly just will not go down or stop. My dad shot a cow elk in the late hunt one year and we trailed her for 4 miles until we finally jumped her and killed her. The first shot had clipped the vein at the top of her heart, the entrance/exit holes had evidently plugged up and the heart just kept sucking the blood in and pumping it out! That shot was an inch from being a perfect heart shot; I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it. Maybe a larger caliber would have left a larger exit wound and she would have expired sooner? I've also seen many DRT's with all kinds of calibers. For my money, the bigger the better for elk at long range. AJ [/QUOTE]
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