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<blockquote data-quote="IdahoCTD" data-source="post: 1217860" data-attributes="member: 13110"><p>My buddy and I drew good bull tags this year too. We have pretty good odds of shooting something over 300". I've never seen a live Coues deer so I'm sure a 90+" deer would be totally fine with me as well. Before last year my buddy had only killed one bull elk when he lived in CO. Last year with me he killed a bull and a cow elk plus a mulie buck. He is a big duck hunter and we hunted ducks together for years before I got him talked in to going after big game. This year we went all out and I'm even building him a rifle. We have 3 elk tags (2 bulls and 1 cow), 4 deer tags (3 bucks and 1 doe), and 1 doe antelope tag. All are in ID but the Coues deer and a UT cow elk. We put in for points in UT and already had to buy a license so I talked him into a late 12-17 to 1-31-17 cow elk hunt. We can actually go after duck season is over if we need to. The UT cow elk hunt was 70% success rate in 2014 with a average of 1 day hunted. Hopefully it's that easy this year too.</p><p></p><p>If I primarily hunted deer I'd consider a 6.5saum. It's plenty big enough, has 3-4x the barrel life of a 7RUM, has less recoil, and will fit in a short action. If I wanted a hot 7mm I'd do a 7-300wm or a 28 Nosler. 300wm and 28Nosler brass is easier to get and they fit in magazines much easier then 7RUM's do with big bullets like the 195's. I've killed 3 elk with my 6.5-300wm which is only about 100fps faster than a 6.5saum so I'd have no problems killing an elk with a 6.5mm. My wife is going to shoot a cow elk here in about 2 weeks with my 6.5x47L and she has a cow moose tag for October. I'm sure she'll use the same rifle for it but I'll take one of my .300's along in case she needs to shoot over 600yds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IdahoCTD, post: 1217860, member: 13110"] My buddy and I drew good bull tags this year too. We have pretty good odds of shooting something over 300". I've never seen a live Coues deer so I'm sure a 90+" deer would be totally fine with me as well. Before last year my buddy had only killed one bull elk when he lived in CO. Last year with me he killed a bull and a cow elk plus a mulie buck. He is a big duck hunter and we hunted ducks together for years before I got him talked in to going after big game. This year we went all out and I'm even building him a rifle. We have 3 elk tags (2 bulls and 1 cow), 4 deer tags (3 bucks and 1 doe), and 1 doe antelope tag. All are in ID but the Coues deer and a UT cow elk. We put in for points in UT and already had to buy a license so I talked him into a late 12-17 to 1-31-17 cow elk hunt. We can actually go after duck season is over if we need to. The UT cow elk hunt was 70% success rate in 2014 with a average of 1 day hunted. Hopefully it's that easy this year too. If I primarily hunted deer I'd consider a 6.5saum. It's plenty big enough, has 3-4x the barrel life of a 7RUM, has less recoil, and will fit in a short action. If I wanted a hot 7mm I'd do a 7-300wm or a 28 Nosler. 300wm and 28Nosler brass is easier to get and they fit in magazines much easier then 7RUM's do with big bullets like the 195's. I've killed 3 elk with my 6.5-300wm which is only about 100fps faster than a 6.5saum so I'd have no problems killing an elk with a 6.5mm. My wife is going to shoot a cow elk here in about 2 weeks with my 6.5x47L and she has a cow moose tag for October. I'm sure she'll use the same rifle for it but I'll take one of my .300's along in case she needs to shoot over 600yds. [/QUOTE]
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