WYO Bull Elk - HAMMERED .284 177s

JMack

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Just got back home here in Pennsylvania last Saturday from a few great days of elk hunting on a general tag in eastern Wyoming and wanted to give a full report. I teased you all a bit in another thread but this one is the official report šŸ˜

shooting a short 20" barrel 28 nosler, 177 hammer hunters at 2860 mv, accuracy is less than 1/2 moa so I just left it at that.

The mid morning of second day we headed to a lookout above some cut banks in sage country, my buddy had been seeing a few good bulls in the area last few weeks, bedded in the sand and shade. We get to a nice big flat rock and weren't there 3 minutes maybe out pops a nice 6x6 from the canyons. As you'll see in the pic he came out between the two trees on opposite side of cut from where we were, both of my buddies ranged him at 521, by the time I got on him he had taken a few more steps, I checked my dope, dialed 7.5 moa put the crosshairs on crease behind shoulder and touched it off. I saw him flinch in scope so I knew it was a solid hit and by the time I got another round in and back on the scope I watched him tip over. He did the ten step shuffle and it was lights out. We hooted and high fived for a minute then drive to him, as we were gawking at my bull another slightly larger bull busted out of the canyon and stopped at 250 ish yards my hunting buddy let him have it. DRT. Low and behold another bull of the same caliber busts out of the opposite side of canyon.

The three of us just kind of looked around wondering what just happened. Ha!

The next day we went back to the rock and I witnessed my buddy knock down a coyote at 900 yards. Pretty impressive!

Enjoy the pictures!

This was my longest kill shot and the hammer bullets gave me the confidence to make the shot!

Disclaimer: I do not work for hammer bullets nor do I get anything for endorsing them. They work.
 

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Awesome! Congrats on the elk and a heckuva great bull taken!

I'm assuming the Hammer blew right on thru?
I didn't see a gaping exit hole and due to the temperature I quickly field dressed both elk (ya I'm a nice guy) took some pictures loaded them up and hauled to butcher. I noticed a significant amount of internal damage to his vitals when field dressing and lots of clotting in the diaphragm area so I didn't spend any more time doing an autopsy. 85 degrees makes me nervous with a big animal on the ground.
 
I didn't see a gaping exit hole and due to the temperature I quickly field dressed both elk (ya I'm a nice guy) took some pictures loaded them up and hauled to butcher. I noticed a significant amount of internal damage to his vitals when field dressing and lots of clotting in the diaphragm area so I didn't spend any more time doing an autopsy. 85 degrees makes me nervous with a big animal on the ground.

Totally understand that!
 
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