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<blockquote data-quote="CanardNoir" data-source="post: 1548311" data-attributes="member: 64559"><p>[ATTACH=full]117464[/ATTACH] Speaking of smaller calibers on large game animals, it can often be problematic:</p><p></p><p>Hunting ants during elk season near Wyoming's Shirley Basin one morning back during the 1980s. Glassing the flatland about 25-resident elk were spotted crossing from one mountain outcropping to another on the high plain basin.</p><p></p><p>I had only a Rem 700 Classic chambered in .270 Win with some 130gr bronze point handloads (chronoed @ 3,000fps). So I closed the distance to less than 400 yards by creeping and crawling down a dry wash that angled toward a low-point where the elk would pass.</p><p></p><p>Conditions were less than ideal with a gusting 10-15 mph crosswind out of the north and a dirt bank for a rifle rest. But within about 20 minutes I'd stopped and slowed my breathing & heart rate to a point where I was willing to take a shot. (Tempering my willingness was the fact that I'd scouted elk for three days before the season, then hunted for two-more days after the opener without seeing a single shooter bull. So on the fourth day I went hunting for ants some 10-15 odd miles below my mountain base camp.)</p><p></p><p>Long-story short - I hit the slowly-moving herd bull three of my five shots with the .270 Win. But I didn't recovered that animal for another four hours of tracking, and that still required a single head shot from my Mod 66 .357 mag. He was nearly-three miles away, laying in a hillside aspen quakie. Gut shot but not stopped...</p><p></p><p>We made it back to camp that night, just before 10pm.</p><p></p><p>The next day I took two of my camp pals back to the outcropping where the elk heard had been headed. One of them bagged a nice young 2X2 bull with a single 150gr shot from a .308 Win. I filled my mule deer tag with a neck shot from my .270 Win, at less than 75 yards...</p><p></p><p>My 7mm Rem mag was never hunted with on that trip.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CanardNoir, post: 1548311, member: 64559"] [ATTACH=full]117464[/ATTACH] Speaking of smaller calibers on large game animals, it can often be problematic: Hunting ants during elk season near Wyoming's Shirley Basin one morning back during the 1980s. Glassing the flatland about 25-resident elk were spotted crossing from one mountain outcropping to another on the high plain basin. I had only a Rem 700 Classic chambered in .270 Win with some 130gr bronze point handloads (chronoed @ 3,000fps). So I closed the distance to less than 400 yards by creeping and crawling down a dry wash that angled toward a low-point where the elk would pass. Conditions were less than ideal with a gusting 10-15 mph crosswind out of the north and a dirt bank for a rifle rest. But within about 20 minutes I'd stopped and slowed my breathing & heart rate to a point where I was willing to take a shot. (Tempering my willingness was the fact that I'd scouted elk for three days before the season, then hunted for two-more days after the opener without seeing a single shooter bull. So on the fourth day I went hunting for ants some 10-15 odd miles below my mountain base camp.) Long-story short - I hit the slowly-moving herd bull three of my five shots with the .270 Win. But I didn't recovered that animal for another four hours of tracking, and that still required a single head shot from my Mod 66 .357 mag. He was nearly-three miles away, laying in a hillside aspen quakie. Gut shot but not stopped... We made it back to camp that night, just before 10pm. The next day I took two of my camp pals back to the outcropping where the elk heard had been headed. One of them bagged a nice young 2X2 bull with a single 150gr shot from a .308 Win. I filled my mule deer tag with a neck shot from my .270 Win, at less than 75 yards... My 7mm Rem mag was never hunted with on that trip. [/QUOTE]
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