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WYO Bull Elk - HAMMERED .284 177s
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Gotta love the plugged freezer!Great shots!
OMG you drove to the kill site! That's crazy cool beans!
The freezer shot made my mouth drool!
Though the Gunwerks ammo box was upside down so missed out on good PR
Thx for sharing a great hunt for many of us who will not be so lucky to get out this year.
Thanks!!Congratulations! Nice bull, good shoot'n, awesome photos, good choice of bullets, and a few good meals....summary: a darn good hunt!memtb
Bob Wright
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Way to go! Nice hunt!
How did the terminal ballistics do on them? (Tissue damage) On another thread we were discussing just that.
How did the terminal ballistics do on them? (Tissue damage) On another thread we were discussing just that.
Great bulls! I think you need to share the meat!!!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
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.
I did notice two holes in the rib cage the exit was probably golf ball sized and if I had to guess the bullet lodged into the off side shoulder, he was slightly quartering away from me. I don't think there was a lot of bloodshot meat especially based on the amount I got back, definitely didn't ruin an entire shoulder or anything. Internal damage appeared to be pretty devastating lots of dark colored blood clots in the diaphragm lungs and heart were pretty tore up. I wasn't expecting the bull to drop, but he definitely wasn't going to run anywhere pretty much staggered ten steps or so.
Ha! I will and I do! Trust me!Great bulls! I think you need to share the meat!!!
Congrats!
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Nice bulls! Good shooting as well! Great eats for the winter! Just does not get much better!!!!
OHDeerHunter
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Very nice bulls! Congratulations on a successful hunt!
Bob Wright
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Awesome. Thanks for sharing. Good data!
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Nice double !
Thanks
