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    Default 300blk elk

    300blk and 7.62x39 are perfectly suitable calibers for elk.

    Proven twice personally.




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    Handloads or factory ammo?
    If the Odds are equal, you're doing it wrong

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    Default 300blk elk

    Lehigh controlled chaos.
    Made its way through shoulder, both lungs, rib, stuck in hide of other side.

    Damage looked exactly as gel tests showed despite traveling through ‘impenetrable shoulder blade’


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    Nice....congrats
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    very nice, very nice indeed. may your tummy be full this winter...
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    I'm going to guess you didn't go with subsonic loads
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    Nice!

    Not really different than a .32/40 Winchester, and many elk fell to that caliber in the 1890's to 1930's.

    It doesn't really matter how big your bullet is if you know where to shoot it...
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    congrats on the elk. What was the range of the shot?
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    Range was ~70yd.
    These were supers.

    Too many Fudds out there repeating the same dated crap about 30.06 or larger.

    I’m not even sold on always taking shots in vital zone (lung/heart).
    I would much rather immediately anchor an animal with a high neck shot or other CNS hit.

    It’s a real bummer to lose the heart- best chili meat there is.


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    Very cool! I have always been very interested in hunting with "non-typical" calibers and firearms. I'm currently acquiring preference points for an elk hunt, I plan on using a 6.5 Grendel once I get that tag.
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