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Len Backus and Robb Wiley discuss some of the best elk hunting calibers - Video
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<blockquote data-quote="Wheeler co" data-source="post: 1428385" data-attributes="member: 104429"><p>I would try to cut some corners for you, but everyone needs to make their own decisions. All I can do is relate my own experiences over many years. I bought in on the big magnum craze some years ago, and bought a new .30-378, to shoot elk at a 1000 yards from then on. Sighted it in at 300 yards. Put a box of shells through it at the range with the break that came on it - with muffs on. Pretty mild. Zeroed for 300 yards. First elk shot was beaded down - at 40 yards. Used no muffs, like I always hunt. The wind was blowing about 35, and evidently blew the sound away from me. Everything was fine. Next elk shot was across a canyon, two quick shots. Blew my hearing away. Bells crashing in my head. Sat there for ten minutes, with a dead elk on another hill, wondering what just happened to me. Now, many years later, the bells still ring in my head. It's called tinnitus. Hearing loss comes from accumulative sound...it all adds up...but that was the last straw, that finished off what I had left - all at once. I often think that the manufacturer should have included a four foot square fluorescent red warning sign ( to get your attention) in the box - Warning : Do not shoot this without hearing protection. After, at the range, took the break off and installed the thread protector. Put two rounds in the magazine. Fired one round. Took the other out of the mag, and it went home gather dust. Just too punishing to hunt with. Now, after hunting in NZ, and discovering suppressors, I don't go hunting, anything, without one. Cuts recoil like a break. Cuts sound like muffs, even 300 W. Animals can't tell where sound came from. One man's experience. All good. Nothing bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wheeler co, post: 1428385, member: 104429"] I would try to cut some corners for you, but everyone needs to make their own decisions. All I can do is relate my own experiences over many years. I bought in on the big magnum craze some years ago, and bought a new .30-378, to shoot elk at a 1000 yards from then on. Sighted it in at 300 yards. Put a box of shells through it at the range with the break that came on it - with muffs on. Pretty mild. Zeroed for 300 yards. First elk shot was beaded down - at 40 yards. Used no muffs, like I always hunt. The wind was blowing about 35, and evidently blew the sound away from me. Everything was fine. Next elk shot was across a canyon, two quick shots. Blew my hearing away. Bells crashing in my head. Sat there for ten minutes, with a dead elk on another hill, wondering what just happened to me. Now, many years later, the bells still ring in my head. It’s called tinnitus. Hearing loss comes from accumulative sound...it all adds up...but that was the last straw, that finished off what I had left - all at once. I often think that the manufacturer should have included a four foot square fluorescent red warning sign ( to get your attention) in the box - Warning : Do not shoot this without hearing protection. After, at the range, took the break off and installed the thread protector. Put two rounds in the magazine. Fired one round. Took the other out of the mag, and it went home gather dust. Just too punishing to hunt with. Now, after hunting in NZ, and discovering suppressors, I don’t go hunting, anything, without one. Cuts recoil like a break. Cuts sound like muffs, even 300 W. Animals can’t tell where sound came from. One man’s experience. All good. Nothing bad. [/QUOTE]
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