400 Yard Elk cartridge . what's your Pick
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pete dobinson
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Courtenay BC.
I felt that
built up a Sako a7 .270 wsm with 140 accubonds and it shot awesome to 930, killed my ram at 35 yards with it, the only thing I shot with a rifle that season, then killed 3 more big game animals with a bow that season, bull moose at 40, muley buck at 53 and whitetail buck at 65, talk about a mind job, didn't even need a rifle that year...if a guy can't get it done with 30 grains of powder then hang it up lol
omg I'm dying hahaha
I felt that
built up a Sako a7 .270 wsm with 140 accubonds and it shot awesome to 930, killed my ram at 35 yards with it, the only thing I shot with a rifle that season, then killed 3 more big game animals with a bow that season, bull moose at 40, muley buck at 53 and whitetail buck at 65, talk about a mind job, didn't even need a rifle that year...if a guy can't get it done with 30 grains of powder then hang it up lol /QUOTE]
All HAIL the 6.5 Grendel !
I guess Milo Hanson took up elk hunting now…
- Location
- Saskatoon Saskatchewan
Haha of course! I almost wish you hadn't now!
Would a 338 hole in the horn have been fatal?
I've heard a story of guys shooting a deer in the horn and knocking it out cold, thinking they made a good shot they get up to deer and it gets up and runs away? No idea if its true or not?
I shot a real nice mule deer buck in velvet in the antler with an arrow... It ran away with arrow stuck in its antler... I still hear about that one to this day, LOL
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I’ve never shot an elk at 400yds. But my buddy did last fall, with a 270W. Wouldn’t believe it unless I saw it for myself. And I measured the distance at 404 yds. Broke both front legs just above the heart. Shooting 130gr SST at 3100 mv.
Pudelpointer
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Lethbridge, Alberta
I have seen this happen first-hand. A relative, who shall remain nameless, once shot a very big blacktail from a high-angle downward shot; 180gr out of 30-06 @ ~150 yards. I saw the buck's head twist around and the buck flipped up onto it's back on a small sandy spot in the gully bottom, in the middle of a very large cutblock. We had been arguing back and forth about whether it was a (big) two or three point... which really did not matter, as it was a big mature buck either way. As the buck lay "t*ts up", a dozen previously unnoticed deer jumped up and ran out of the gully. I ran along a trail to try and get somewhere I could watch them go by, which they did in ones and twos, but no good bucks were observed. My *** had joined me after watching his buck for a minute to make sure he did not get up. I offered to head down and start gutting it out, while he brought the truck around to a spot further down the creek.
As I stepped into the gully, my *** was driving the road down through the slash, and I notice a large buck heading up and out of the gully in front of me, that then runs across the slash, crossing the road less than 100 yards behind the moving truck. This was probably 15-20 minutes after the shot. When I got down into the creek bottom, I could not find the deer. When my *** came walking up he got all snippy that I had not started gutting out his deer yet, and that I must be completely blind if I was unable to see it! I explained that I found where the deer had landed upside down in the sand, as you could see the marks where it had lain, and where it had scrambled to it's feet and headed off towards the road. Not a hair, or drop of blood to be found anywhere.
As far as we could figure, our earlier argument about points (turns out we were looking at two different deer!) probably caused him to look at the antlers one last time as he pulled the trigger. Of course, one hits where one looks. It was a good lesson for me as a young hunter, and since then I only "look" at an animal's antlers long enough to decide "yay" or "nay". If "yay", I make a conscious effort to only look at the animal's eyes and ears, block those antlers out of my mind... helps get "buck fever" under control as well.
.358 WSM (Sambar)…..200 grain Barnes TTSX in front of a healthy dose of R17 going 3000fps. My brother’s bases on his 338 Win were loose and we didn’t want to bother re-zeroing instead of hunting so he used my 358 WSM. 415 yards, dead right there. Lucked out with a heart shot.
So far my Sambar has taken 3 elk and a moose. All one shot kills from 100-415 yards. No fear of poor penetration with the Barnes copper!
So far my Sambar has taken 3 elk and a moose. All one shot kills from 100-415 yards. No fear of poor penetration with the Barnes copper!
