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Ideal Cartridge for Elk?
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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 1552603" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>I tend to find the ideal elk cartridge happens to be chambered in the rifle your holding with the crosshairs on an elk, I've had days on a random coyote hunt turn into filling elk tags with a 22-250 and I never thought twice about what I was shooting just where I was putting a bullet. </p><p>Terrain should really come into play more than many give it credit, I hunt heavy timber breaking up into large south facing sage brush openings, typical awesome SW MT elk country. Some days I wish I had a marlin lever gun in 45-70 with a ghost ring sight and big hollow points, other days it don't get much sweeter than a heavy 338 RUM loaded with a 250 Berger shooting prone across a large drainage rolling elk feeding out.</p><p></p><p>For me it's not a one gun solution when I'm shooting a lot and am on top of my game, I simply won't pass up a perfect condition and shot because of a range, as long as I can get a bullet placed at a velocity that it will open and make it to the other side I'm shooting, I'm not going to work in closer for the sake of being closer, nor am I backing up I'm just shooting from the absolute strongest position. I like a big 300 or 338 capable of 1400-1600 yard clean kills with me that is in a hard case in the truck, it's a prone gun in the 12-14 lb range, then I like a smaller 6.5 and preferably a 270 that will ride in a backpack or carried in after elk while still able to break timber and be effective to 800-1000 yards, this is the meat stick that I'm just mean with and confidence is at max with it, recoil low, no brake and easy from multiple positions in the 8-9 lb range.</p><p>This is my personal prescription that has served me well for a pile of elk!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 1552603, member: 13632"] I tend to find the ideal elk cartridge happens to be chambered in the rifle your holding with the crosshairs on an elk, I've had days on a random coyote hunt turn into filling elk tags with a 22-250 and I never thought twice about what I was shooting just where I was putting a bullet. Terrain should really come into play more than many give it credit, I hunt heavy timber breaking up into large south facing sage brush openings, typical awesome SW MT elk country. Some days I wish I had a marlin lever gun in 45-70 with a ghost ring sight and big hollow points, other days it don't get much sweeter than a heavy 338 RUM loaded with a 250 Berger shooting prone across a large drainage rolling elk feeding out. For me it's not a one gun solution when I'm shooting a lot and am on top of my game, I simply won't pass up a perfect condition and shot because of a range, as long as I can get a bullet placed at a velocity that it will open and make it to the other side I'm shooting, I'm not going to work in closer for the sake of being closer, nor am I backing up I'm just shooting from the absolute strongest position. I like a big 300 or 338 capable of 1400-1600 yard clean kills with me that is in a hard case in the truck, it's a prone gun in the 12-14 lb range, then I like a smaller 6.5 and preferably a 270 that will ride in a backpack or carried in after elk while still able to break timber and be effective to 800-1000 yards, this is the meat stick that I'm just mean with and confidence is at max with it, recoil low, no brake and easy from multiple positions in the 8-9 lb range. This is my personal prescription that has served me well for a pile of elk!! [/QUOTE]
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