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Your Best Elk Rifle
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<blockquote data-quote="TOM H" data-source="post: 32108" data-attributes="member: 306"><p>My new one for this year is a 300wsm with a Broughton #4 barrel and McMillian stock,3.5x10 leupold scope weight 9.5 lbs back up #1 30-338,3x9 leupold scope weight 9 1/4 lbs. Other rifle for elk and deer, Rem 700 30-338,3x9 leupold weight 10 lbs,#1 factory 300wby, 3x9 leupold, 9 3/4 lbs,30-378 wby factory, 3.5x10 leupold, 10 1/2 lbs. I hunt some open country so shots can be in the 500 yd range have taken afew a bit longer. I normally hunt country that you either have to walk in or go on horseback so don't get alot of hunters in (seems nowadays they cann't get away from there atv's). I've been hunting this area since the 70's. Some years do real good and others not so. Since our season are pretty short in Co I hunt the first only bulls and second for buck and if drawn the late for cow elk. I got my buck last year but missed on the cow and seen alot of bulls right up fri before the season started and then never saw another live bull till the late cow hunt. I'm up at 2/3 in the morning and gone and sometimes back in at dark so I like to walk and I like to hunt alone. Year before was a good one got a real nice 6x6 bull,4pt buck plus late season cow, cow was easy to get out but had to pack the bull out as with the buck. Since I'm in my 60's so had alittle more time at this I'm 30 plus for elk and 50 plus on buck and of those buck two were record book but I didn't put them in just waiting for the real big one. I wish everyone good luck in the coming year!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TOM H, post: 32108, member: 306"] My new one for this year is a 300wsm with a Broughton #4 barrel and McMillian stock,3.5x10 leupold scope weight 9.5 lbs back up #1 30-338,3x9 leupold scope weight 9 1/4 lbs. Other rifle for elk and deer, Rem 700 30-338,3x9 leupold weight 10 lbs,#1 factory 300wby, 3x9 leupold, 9 3/4 lbs,30-378 wby factory, 3.5x10 leupold, 10 1/2 lbs. I hunt some open country so shots can be in the 500 yd range have taken afew a bit longer. I normally hunt country that you either have to walk in or go on horseback so don't get alot of hunters in (seems nowadays they cann't get away from there atv's). I've been hunting this area since the 70's. Some years do real good and others not so. Since our season are pretty short in Co I hunt the first only bulls and second for buck and if drawn the late for cow elk. I got my buck last year but missed on the cow and seen alot of bulls right up fri before the season started and then never saw another live bull till the late cow hunt. I'm up at 2/3 in the morning and gone and sometimes back in at dark so I like to walk and I like to hunt alone. Year before was a good one got a real nice 6x6 bull,4pt buck plus late season cow, cow was easy to get out but had to pack the bull out as with the buck. Since I'm in my 60's so had alittle more time at this I'm 30 plus for elk and 50 plus on buck and of those buck two were record book but I didn't put them in just waiting for the real big one. I wish everyone good luck in the coming year! [/QUOTE]
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