2021 Big Game Hunts

[ManOnTarget]

Here?s this year?s public land bull. He?s not a trophy but I worked hard for him. Had a little raghorn with him that just stood there and watched as I dropped his friend.

FWIW I shot him 2x through the lungs with Nosler ballistic tip hunting bullets with my 30-06 and they both disintegrated. Granted 1 went through a shoulder blade but, all we found was copper flakes. Not impressed at all. Im going to work a lot harder to keep finding accubonds. I?ve always found those in one piece.






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[encorehunter]

I made the mistake of shooting an elk with a ballistic tip once. I wasn't as lucky as you, we never found it. I trailed it for miles in the snow. What weight Accubonds are you looking for? I get most of mine from shootersproshop.com.

[ray1970]

Back in the day I was a big fan of the Barnes solid copper projectiles for big game.

[ManOnTarget]

I?ve shot 180s before with great success. They are just so tough to find with the madness these days.

I have also tried the solid copper and they seem to hold together much better than other bullets. Only issue I have with those is that the 180s are really long and seated at min COAL they won?t fit in the internal mag on my model 70s (that being said I?ve only tried the TSXs)


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[Hummer]

Nice bull, congratulations! The ones you work hard for (which is almost all of them) are all trophies. I had always used Nosler Partition in 150-220gr. weights in my .30-06 with great success. I tried the 180gr. Nosler ballistic tips on elk and deer and didn't like the results. They fragmented badly and tore up too much meat. Never used them again beyond range practice.

Now that I'm shooting 7mm-08, I've gone all copper with the Barnes 120gr. Vor-Tex TTSX. So far I've taken a bull moose, two pronghorn bucks and two mulie bucks with them, all with excellent performance. It's my go-to hunting round now. I'm confident the 120gr. will work well on elk when I get the opportunity. The problem is sourcing them but fortunately I still have two boxes.

[Sawin]

Fantastic bull and I too echo what the others are saying about the bullet choice.
165gr Nosler Accubonds and 150gr Barnes TTSX are all I’ve ever used on Elk and both have been perfectly effective for me over the years. I wouldn’t doubt the 120gr ttsx that Hummer’s using too, as long as I’m within 300m.

I found a box of 50x 150gr .308 TTSX bullets at sportsman’s warehouse last week ($40), so am good for the next decade of hunting.

[theGinsue]

Just got my 2022 Colorado Big Game booklet in the mail today. Time to start looking at whether or not I'm elk hunting this year.

[DVCER]

No elk in my freezer lately. At least not since I started focusing on bow hunting. Still, a great time.

[DVCER]

Lol, I’m on probation. Just saw that.

[Hummer]

Submitted my 2022 big game applications today for buck deer, buck pronghorn, cow elk, and cow moose. With 3 preference points it's possible I could draw a cow moose tag. We're still eating 2018 bull moose, mostly various sausages like smoked summer sausage, Italian and breakfast sausages, and some German knapwurst that we made last weekend. On August 2, I'll pick up bull elk and bear licenses.

Don't wait until the last day which is April 4. The online application system sometimes has delays, glitches and shut downs in the last day or two of heavy traffic.