First Elk, First Time Using 210 VLD

[stx]

After several Great Elk Hunts over the years, never harvesting a bull, last week I finally harvested my first bull with my "Old Faithful" 300 Wby Mag and 210 VLDs. Bullet performed perfectly at 2890 FPS at 370 yards in custom Kleinguenther built rifle with 24" bbl with Vortex Razor 3-15x42 LH HD. Not a long range rig as most of you here use but served well to harvest my first bull.

 

[ctw]

beautiful bull,good job stx. ctw

 

[mobenzowner]

370 yards on a very nice bull elk is no small feat. Congratulations.

 

[beretzs]

Congrats on a great bull and a great shot too

 

[Topgun 30-06]

Very nice bull---Congrats!

 

[Rumup]

Congratulations on one heck of a first bull!

 

[stx]

Thanks Guys!

 

[djfriesen]

Nice one! Did you score him?

 

[stx]

340 Rough scored

 

[Barrelnut]

I'd say that one was worth waiting for. Congratulations on a great bull.

 

[the444shooter]

What a brute, congratulations!!!!!! Details on bullet performance, please?

 

[stx]

What a brute, congratulations!!!!!! Details on bullet performance, please?

Bullet went in behind shoulder and took both lungs out. It was dark by the time we got him caped and didn't find bullet or exit hole in hide but there were lungs blown out between the carcass and off-side hide. Quartered him without opening him up so did not see inside damage but it was pretty much destroyed from all the blood, etc that ran out big exit hole in rib cage behind off-side shoulder. He went Nowhere! I was Extremely Pleased with bullet performance!

 

[the444shooter]

Thank you for the details--once again, congratulations on a magnificent bull!

 

[1Moose]

Congrats on a nice bull and the clean harvest. That's what we all look for. I appreciate you sharing the 210 VLD performance. They shoot great out of my 300WM, and I have quite a number of them loaded, but I haven't yet escaped the nagging question in the back of my mind regarding its toughness if I encountered heavier bones or needed to shoot an animal at a steeper quartering angle. I'm not sure why I can't escape that nagging; I had a very clean kill with a 185 Hunting VLD on a broadside 5x6 bull in NM last year, so I'd only expect better with the 210. Thanks for sharing and congrats again.