WY Elk 24

BuzzH

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Well, round 1 is over for elk in Wyoming. Hunted with 4 of my friends and even with the hot dry weather, we did OK going 5/5 with 2 bulls and 3 cows. Saw elk everyday, saw bulls everyday, and we all passed bulls early in the hunt.

About day 6 or 7, I caught this bull feeding in a small opening at 446 yards. I set up a good solid rest with what I had, a spotting scope tripod and my backpack, got settled in and everything seemed plenty solid. Chambered a round in my 7-08 and put the leupold dot on the point of the on-side shoulder and pressed the trigger. Done deal, heard the familiar thump of the bullet. The bull took a couple steps uphill and stopped. Put another round in the chamber and before I could shoot, I saw 4 elk legs in the air and a bit of kicking and dust.

Worked out right fair.

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The 140 accubonds just work:

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Off to Montana now.
 
Nice! Well done Buzz.

The hot dry weather seemed to make it more difficult for us to get on elk, but we still filled our two cow tags in WY.

My buddy harvested his elk with 140 accubond from .270 with same exact result...buried in off side hide.
 
Well done! I don’t know why it took so long for 7mm08 to pop up on my radar. Got one coming soon. Better late than never! 140 AB definitely on my short list of bullets to try out.
 

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