Bigcountry94
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I thought I would post about bullet performance on elk to help some one try to decide I know all situations are different and it's been talked about a lot so
I had gotten on some elk and I had a older 7 mag with ABLR 175gr hand loads I had bulls all around me first day screaming and I finaly found a really nice bull in a group of 300 and he ended up getting 50 yards from me broad side shot right behind the shoulder he stumbled and lied down and got back up still walking around about 100 yards it's chaotic the elk didn't know what to do so I thought bullet must have blew up pulled up to shoot again and I saw a exit hole on the off side barely bleeding so I shoot again and I hit shoulder he walked around and laid down again and stayed for 5 minutes and I was waiting and he got up again and I shot and missed cause when he got up he started running like there was nothing wrong with him looked till 1 in the morning for him and all the next day all the elk are still in the same spot we tried to track him and there wasn't a single spot of blood anywhere we walked and found the heard again and he was in the group but this time they didn't stick around to see what I wanted he was running like nothing was wrong with him at all he was even still bugling so I don't understand that it might be un ethical but I need the meat to feed my family so I set out again and I missed 4 different cows out of a different heard from 100 yards to 300 yards and didn't hit one of them I fought the urge to throw my rifle in the trees . The next day My buddy was shooting a 270 shooting 150 gr partition found a different heard and he took a shot at 300 yards at a cow it was a hit I found out later but I watched her and she kinda wobbled after a while and then turned broadside to follow the group and He put another in her and she tipped over. Later as I was skinning her I found a piece of bullet from his 270 it was the lead from the back of the partition but it still killed her.
I'm no stranger to long range bullets I shoot burgers at deer and they do okay not like the commercial say so I understand that long range bullets should explode at close range but it's like one didn't and one did to much don't get it
I had gotten on some elk and I had a older 7 mag with ABLR 175gr hand loads I had bulls all around me first day screaming and I finaly found a really nice bull in a group of 300 and he ended up getting 50 yards from me broad side shot right behind the shoulder he stumbled and lied down and got back up still walking around about 100 yards it's chaotic the elk didn't know what to do so I thought bullet must have blew up pulled up to shoot again and I saw a exit hole on the off side barely bleeding so I shoot again and I hit shoulder he walked around and laid down again and stayed for 5 minutes and I was waiting and he got up again and I shot and missed cause when he got up he started running like there was nothing wrong with him looked till 1 in the morning for him and all the next day all the elk are still in the same spot we tried to track him and there wasn't a single spot of blood anywhere we walked and found the heard again and he was in the group but this time they didn't stick around to see what I wanted he was running like nothing was wrong with him at all he was even still bugling so I don't understand that it might be un ethical but I need the meat to feed my family so I set out again and I missed 4 different cows out of a different heard from 100 yards to 300 yards and didn't hit one of them I fought the urge to throw my rifle in the trees . The next day My buddy was shooting a 270 shooting 150 gr partition found a different heard and he took a shot at 300 yards at a cow it was a hit I found out later but I watched her and she kinda wobbled after a while and then turned broadside to follow the group and He put another in her and she tipped over. Later as I was skinning her I found a piece of bullet from his 270 it was the lead from the back of the partition but it still killed her.
I'm no stranger to long range bullets I shoot burgers at deer and they do okay not like the commercial say so I understand that long range bullets should explode at close range but it's like one didn't and one did to much don't get it