Elk gun? Is mine enough?

[4onaside]

I killed my first (and only) elk last fall with a 7mm mag. It was a one shot kill using 160 gr remington core-lokt ultras.

Where did you hunt?

 

[Sting]

Hunted in Colorado (Sangre De Cristo Range). It's basically west of Pueblo. BLM (gov't) land.

 

[4onaside]

Hunted in Colorado (Sangre De Cristo Range). It's basically west of Pueblo. BLM (gov't) land.
Guided? I know the general area, as I am a Colorado hunter also.
We hunt on the West side of the San Luis valley.

 

[Sting]

Not guided. My first trip, but the guys I went with had hunted there a couple of years before.

 

[cdw338]

The only elk I have taken was out of Grand Junction Co. I used a 7mm Mag with hand loadd of 160 gr. Shot the elk at 425 yards.

I have taken at times, a 338 win mag, 300 Win mag, the 7 Mag and
others at times and the 7 Mag had done everything it was called on to do. If I ever go back, I will take a 7 Mag and a 300 Ultra
mag as a back up.

I have a friend that lives out there that shot a bull that scored just a fraction over 350 last year. I have an invertation
anytime I want to go.

 

[Hillbilly Hunter]

Bullet selection is the only place you can go wrong with this round for elk. I would shoot the 160 Partition.

 

[4onaside]

Well,yeah,just about any old bullet will do.




As long as it is a Nosler Partition!

 

[rack'em up]

you recon a 150gr winchester supreme will do the trick?

 

[4onaside]

I don't know the bullet, never hunted with it. However, anything .30 caliber or above, I'd use a heavier bullet. I you are shooting a 30.06, I like a 180gr bullet for the bigger critters.

 

[Radar]

30-.06 with 180 gr. bullet would be my choice .

 

[rack'em up]

I don't know the bullet, never hunted with it. However, anything .30 caliber or above, I'd use a heavier bullet. I you are shooting a 30.06, I like a 180gr bullet for the bigger critters.

im shootin a savage 270.

 

[4onaside]

I don't know the bullet, never hunted with it. However, anything .30 caliber or above, I'd use a heavier bullet. I you are shooting a 30.06, I like a 180gr bullet for the bigger critters.

im shootin a savage 270.

Well, I'd have no problem elk hunting with a .270. I own one, but elk hunt with the .06 because it can handle a heavier bullet. But, a partition or bonded bullet in 150 gr. I suspect would be fine.

 

[rack'em up]

ill prolly have a bigger gun by the time i git to hunt elk but i always want to be ready just in case.

 

[Anonymous]

got a model 7 3oo ultra mag stainless topped with 4.5x 14x50 nikon stainless scope will put on you for 1300.00. It will overkill anything living

 

[4onaside]

got a model 7 3oo ultra mag stainless topped with 4.5x 14x50 nikon stainless scope will put on you for 1300.00. It will overkill anything living

After all of the newer "short magnums" came out, I basically quit keeping up with those calibers and the actions that enclosed them, because I already had every caliber that I would ever need, in the so called"standard calibers". However, I was always under the impression that the Model 7 was designed primarily for the short standards, .308, .260, 7mm/08, etc. The fact, that it is chambered for a magnum caliber sort of surprises me.

 

[rack'em up]

i wouldnt mind havin onw of those 338 federals.its a 308 case necked up to .338 bullet.