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Title: Elk! Maybe
Post by: 1Buckshot on July 22, 2011, 10:29:33 AM

Well the Elk and Deer tag draw results are out for Montana. The wife and I drew a Elk B antlerless tags for the 700 area in eastern Montana on a party draw, But as usual the wife did one better and drew a bull tag also for the same area.  :'( I have hunted this area for 15 years so I know where the elk hang out. This is hunting though not killing. I will let you know in November if the Wife and I and Elk are in the same spot at the same time.  ;D

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Post by: jaybet on July 22, 2011, 12:18:25 PM

Good luck. I saw one at our county zoo the other day and had forgotten just how damn BIG those critters are. Hope you bag a couple.

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Post by: Hazcat on July 22, 2011, 03:21:31 PM

Good luck and I hope ya got a BIG freezer! ;)

;D

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Post by: 1Buckshot on July 22, 2011, 04:27:51 PM

Thanks and we have TWO. Hope we need both. :o

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Post by: PegLeg45 on July 22, 2011, 04:56:14 PM

Good luck on the hunt.   :D

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Post by: ellis4538 on July 22, 2011, 07:03:05 PM

Good luck and enjoy.

Richard

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Post by: Pathfinder on July 23, 2011, 06:31:46 AM

Elk are big critters - especially when you encounter a small herd while you're walking in a parking lot and they're wandering around your car!

What rifles will you and the Missus be using?

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Post by: philw on July 23, 2011, 07:02:58 AM

good luck and have fun

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Post by: crusader rabbit on July 23, 2011, 08:47:58 AM

If things seem especially green right now, it's just a reflection off this old Crusader.

Envy is not an attractive emotion.  (sigh)

Title: Re: Elk! Maybe
Post by: PegLeg45 on July 23, 2011, 01:26:38 PM

Quote from: Pathfinder on July 23, 2011, 06:31:46 AM

Elk are big critters - especially when you encounter a small herd while you're walking in a parking lot and they're wandering around your car!

What rifles will you and the Missus be using?

A big +1


So excited for you to be going on an Elk hunt that the guns were 'lost'.......fill us in on the guns to be used.....

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Post by: tombogan03884 on July 23, 2011, 01:29:39 PM

Have the hides tanned for matching jackets !  ;D

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Post by: 1Buckshot on July 23, 2011, 01:58:20 PM

OK. The wife will be shooting her Browning 30/06 loaded with 180gr Nosler Partition bullets. For Deer she uses a browning in
7mm 08. That my friends is a sweet shooting little gun. As for myself, because I will be after  cow Elk and deer I will stick with my 280 rem. also a Browning. Seems like we have a thing for Browning's ;D. If i was hunting Bulls I would use my (Ruger) in 300 win. mag. with 200 gr.Nosler Partition bullets. Its done a good job on the first four Elk. Just because we like Browning so much, we will be hunting on a ranch owned by brothers by the name of BROWNING ::)

Title: Re: Elk! Maybe
Post by: TAB on July 23, 2011, 02:07:13 PM

Last 2 I killed one was with a M1 the other was with my weatherby in 257 wearthby mag.


I say killed as we were "hunting" a farmers field.  Its not hunting, its meat shoping( well and pest control as far as the farmer was concered).

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Post by: PegLeg45 on July 23, 2011, 02:09:27 PM

Cool.

I also have an affinity for the Brownings.......love my A-Bolts. Love the Nosler bullets also.

Again, good luck and enjoy!!!!!   :D