11 shots to drop an elk...really?

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On opening day for elk season, I heard 11 consecutive shots fired just after shooting time. Does an elk really need that much lead or would it be two dipsh*ts unloading their guns at an animal that is too far away? My guess is the latter.

Anyone have any unusually tough game that just won't go down?
 
Buck fever/Elk fever can do crazy things....

Hunted with a guy for years who could shoot clover leaves at the rang all day long,pop coyotes like a boss, but couldn't kill a deer for the life of him. So bad that he had to lay down on the spot after he was done shooting because he was so worked up.
 
Ran into a situation in 304 once where it sounded like a war.Was a young kid with buck fever trying to shoot a mule deer doe. He actually had to reload the clip for his 303 he shot at it so many times. He actually did get it in the end.
I spotted a bull moose it the Porcupine hills once and tried to get closer for a shot. He spooked and ran into the trees and came out on a trail on the other side.Fellow there spotted it and started shooting. He put several shoots into it but only one good one.Turns out he had forgotton his glasses and could just see it in the scope.
 
Flock shooting. Seen it in the past. Guy starts shooting-- nothing goes down so he keeps banging away. Usually results in more dead animals than available tags.
 
I've only seen someone empty a 10 round mag on a .303 at a deer. The 5 point whitetail was at the top of a large cutblock. The scope fell off the rifle during the first shot, the rest were calculated guesses.

I stayed with the car, (I was 14 at the time) while my father and his friend walked up to where the animal was. It took them quite awhile to get there. I watched them through binoculars as the friend took the killshot. I counted to "five one thousand" before I heard the report.
 
sjemac said:
Flock shooting. Seen it in the past. Guy starts shooting-- nothing goes down so he keeps banging away. Usually results in more dead animals than available tags.
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I had to give up my tag for a friend who did that one year. He felt like an ass for doing it. Still hunt with him. Learned from his mistake at least.
 
A good friend and respected hunter told me years ago when it comes to moose, keep shooting 'til they go down. This year my boy shot a medium bull with his '06 at 200 yds 180 Hdy I/L 57gr 4895. 4 rounds in the boiler , none passed thru, moose took 2 steps and went down. Rapid fire has its place.
 
Rapid AIMED fire is a good thing.

Had a friend shoot a moose once (Oy vey!!!) and stand there and watch it walk into the bush. Browning BAR in '06. Full magazine when he started.

We searched for 5 or 6 hours, then set up camp there in the dark, to search some more the next day. Found exactly two drops of blood, never did find the moose.

The question that resonated around that, for the next year, was "How many bullets you got in that gun?" followed by "Why?"

The year after, same guy connected on a bull in a cutline. I was half mile away at the time, and he unloaded the whole mag on the moose. Connected on it too. Sounded like a war broke out, but the moose dropped right on the trail.

Then there were the fellas that set up the 'range' in their campsite on the last morning, and shot off all the ammo they had before they left....yeesh.
But I got a nice antlerless buck 200 yards up the road from the camp, as we were driving out, later that same morning. :D Apparently gunfire is not on the list of noises that will make a deer leave the area!

Cheers
Trev
 
many shots

My hunting partner and I were hunting on the battle river on land with limited access. We watched two jeep loads of people set up to do a deer drive with 2 shooters set up in the river valley. the rest of the hunters spread out on the top of the small draws off the river valley. TOO OUR DISMAY, all of the hunters driving the deer, started shooting....not shooting at deer, but just to make noise to drive the deer out. We watched as all of the deer in the valley exited at very high speed. After all of the shooting was done they had killed NO deer. Our hunt in that area was shot to sh*t ....I was back in the same spot a week later and shot a very nice mule buck by sitting and waiting and watching....
 
I know a guy who put 3 shots into a moose and it walked off the road and into the bush. They got it later but it was a lot of work. His uncle said "how many rounds does that gun hold "? He said 5 . Uncle said how many did you give him ? He said 3
The old guy said "Clips are like bottles of vodka in Russia . If your going to open one finish it "
 
Took part in downing a Wildebeest that took 5 rounds+ (my brother's animal), three of them .375 H&H, to put down. The first round, from a .300 Weatherby, was decently placed on a frontal shot and took out a lung to the point he was coughing up chunks of lung, but it was likely nearly half an hour til the .375 put him down for good and he was still moving. He had taken two .300 Weatherby's, one frontal, one quartering away, three .375 H&H TSXs, one to the neck (only shot presented to me when he was spotted again, peaking around thick thornbrush), one to the shoulder (beginning of the end, couldn't move much after that), and one Texas heart shot that dropped him when he managed to make his turn to try and leave one more time. There was likely an additional .300 hit but I didn't spot it when loading him.

Also had a Zebra take three heavy Barnes TSX rounds to drop, two of them lung. Oddly the easiest kill I've had on a big animal was a Cape Buffalo bull, he dropped to my first shot (neck), I put two more in just in case, but he death bellowed shortly after. They can be tanks, with my friend and PH having seen multiple half dozen heavy cal hits fail to bring one down quickly. Like anything, hit in the right place they die, just not as quickly as we're accustomed to over here.

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Lmao more than 20 years ago , hunting by myself off a streetbike(plated so it could be used before noon);)

I got my first moose ...I did empty the mag in my 303
I have no idea how many hits i had on it and how many were brushcutters
But i did kill the moose:D

Now im a little older and prefer a headshot
 
I have put 7, 300 grain partitions from a .450 Marlin into a very big bull elk. He was dead after the first one but he didn't even slow down. My butcher was laughing when I came to pick it up and he handed me a fist full of recovered bullets. It has always been my motto with elk to keep shooting until it stops moving. I have killed 15 elk now and only seen 2 go straight down, one a small bull that I shot in the throat facing me at 30 yards with a .300 saum /150 grain tsx and a cow this year shot in the chest facing me at under 20 yards with a .325 wsm / 200 grain accubonds.
 
Im fairly new to hunting and I've only shot one bull elk, but it only took one well placed shot from my .303 and he only ran maybe 10-15 yards. I dont see a need to fire a dozen shots at an animal. If you arent close enough to hit it where it counts, dont shoot.
 
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