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<blockquote data-quote="Bull_Mtn" data-source="post: 1623425" data-attributes="member: 105447"><p>I'm a bit old school, when it comes to bullets for elk hunting. I killed my first elk 66 years ago, and plan on shooting another this season. I have shoot more elk than I can remember and can only recall one that got away, it was a cow and we trailed it for miles, until it grew dark and the blood trail dried up. Before bullet technology was as great as is is today, I had mixed results with bullets. Some blew up if they hit a front shoulder or leg bone and it took some fast shooting (and sometimes reloading) before the elk dropped. Some bullets, the Winchester Bronze Point comes to mind, drilled holes through an elk, with little expansion in between. It wasn't until I started handloading, and started using Nosler Partition Bullets, that I was getting consistent one shot kills. They could hit a bone and still get good penetration, they expanded well when the heart/lung area was hit, however I was not confident with their accuracy beyond 400 yds. I tried Barnes X, TTX bullets with mixed results, sometimes I would get good expansion and quick kills, and sometimes just a hole drilled through the lungs, and more follow up shots. I switched to Accubonds and had good performance until I got out past 400 yds, then I again had to take more shots than I felt necessary. By this time I was shooting a .300 WSM, most of the Barnes bullets were with a .338 Win Mag. </p><p>As I grew older, most of my hunting consisted of parking myself in a place with a good view in several directions and distances out to 700+ yards. That's when I really got interested in Long Range Hunting. The Berger had been out a while, the ELDX came along, then the Nosler LRAB, the Federal Edge LR and more coming. I shoot a lot and practice at longer ranges (500 meters max at my range). My first elk taken at long range was a bull in 2017 at 670 yds with a borrowed 7mm mag and 175 gr LRAB bullets. The elk went approx. 200 yds before going down. Last year I shot a mature cow at 580 yds with my .300 WSM using Federal 200 gr Edge TLR factory loads. The elk dropped in its tracks, the bullets performance was perfect, high heart lung shot, total destruction in chest cavity, .50 cent size exit hole, no blood shot meat, no bullet fragments. I have been waiting for a year for bullets, but only the 175 gr are available. Which I am going to try. I think I have found my perfect hunting bullet. I forgot to mention, .5 MOA accuracy from factory loads at 100!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bull_Mtn, post: 1623425, member: 105447"] I'm a bit old school, when it comes to bullets for elk hunting. I killed my first elk 66 years ago, and plan on shooting another this season. I have shoot more elk than I can remember and can only recall one that got away, it was a cow and we trailed it for miles, until it grew dark and the blood trail dried up. Before bullet technology was as great as is is today, I had mixed results with bullets. Some blew up if they hit a front shoulder or leg bone and it took some fast shooting (and sometimes reloading) before the elk dropped. Some bullets, the Winchester Bronze Point comes to mind, drilled holes through an elk, with little expansion in between. It wasn't until I started handloading, and started using Nosler Partition Bullets, that I was getting consistent one shot kills. They could hit a bone and still get good penetration, they expanded well when the heart/lung area was hit, however I was not confident with their accuracy beyond 400 yds. I tried Barnes X, TTX bullets with mixed results, sometimes I would get good expansion and quick kills, and sometimes just a hole drilled through the lungs, and more follow up shots. I switched to Accubonds and had good performance until I got out past 400 yds, then I again had to take more shots than I felt necessary. By this time I was shooting a .300 WSM, most of the Barnes bullets were with a .338 Win Mag. As I grew older, most of my hunting consisted of parking myself in a place with a good view in several directions and distances out to 700+ yards. That's when I really got interested in Long Range Hunting. The Berger had been out a while, the ELDX came along, then the Nosler LRAB, the Federal Edge LR and more coming. I shoot a lot and practice at longer ranges (500 meters max at my range). My first elk taken at long range was a bull in 2017 at 670 yds with a borrowed 7mm mag and 175 gr LRAB bullets. The elk went approx. 200 yds before going down. Last year I shot a mature cow at 580 yds with my .300 WSM using Federal 200 gr Edge TLR factory loads. The elk dropped in its tracks, the bullets performance was perfect, high heart lung shot, total destruction in chest cavity, .50 cent size exit hole, no blood shot meat, no bullet fragments. I have been waiting for a year for bullets, but only the 175 gr are available. Which I am going to try. I think I have found my perfect hunting bullet. I forgot to mention, .5 MOA accuracy from factory loads at 100! [/QUOTE]
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