Me and my brother will be carrying two rem. 700's one in 35 whelen shooting 225 gr. triple shocks(very well I might add) and 300 win. mag shooting 180 gr. triple shocks(very well too). The 35 has a 2.5-8 VXIII on it, the 300 has a burris 3-9x40 with B-plex on it. Back up for both wil be a kimber 84m in 308 win. shooting 180 gr. nosler partitions or 150 gr. triple shocks.

I am a little suprised that i am the only guy here taking a 45/70. I realize I might get prety pissed if I see a bull at 350 yards, but I can take one a 200, I will have a back up with more range...tj3006

Aw heck lets, not fool around.. Elk are hard to kill....

Make that a 50 Caliber, open sites, with a 120 mm gun turrent mounted on a surplus M1 Abrams as backup or for those long shots...

Remember as Elmer Keith said.. "Use enough Gun!"

Assuming I get the time off work

Howaby Vanguard 300 Weatherby Magnumb. With either 180 TSX or 180 Partitions. That will be a gametime decision.


ZM

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Originally posted by seafire/B17G:
JLarsson;

I know Mike Bellm as we live in the Same town.. I ran into him today over at the post office... He was telling me that he just mailed off a customers Contender barrel chambered in 375 H & H!!!!!

I'm sure he meant "Encore", not Contender. There is NO way that Mike would chamber the .375 H&H in a Contender barrel.

That said, how much fun can it be to touch that one off even in an Encore with a 14 or 16 inch barrel? I'll bet that one had a muzzle brake on it, as Mike test fires everything he sends out and I believe I understood him to say that he wouldn't test fire some of those calibers without a brake.

Thanks for the encouragement. If I get the barrel back in time, that will be great. I was close enough (@ 100 yards) last year to my cow that I could have shot her with a handgun, but things were happening kind of fast.

Winchester 71 in .348 of course.

If I ever had a chance to hunt elk, which isnt going to happen here in ND, I would use my Tikka 338WM with either 210 partitions or TSX.

No doubt about it. I'm going back to the BOB and I'll be packing my 700 Rem. Classic .35 Whelen w/ 1.75 X 6 Leupold VXIII.
The load is 250 grain Nosler Partitions in front of 59.5 grains RL 15. Averages 2,525 fps and shoots into an inch consistantly. It's accounted for 3 elk and 2 moose.
Rich Elliott

Kimber Montana 300 WSM / 180 Partitions @ 2,950.

'94 Ruger M77MKII S/S .338 Win Mag Hornady 250gr Interlocks.

mike

My son will carry his favorite all-around rifle, a Sako L61-R Deluxe .30-06 loaded with 180 grain Nosler Partitions at nearly 2800 fps. He killed a nice bull with it last year.

I'll take a Sako TRGs .338 Win loaded with 225 grain Nosler Partitions at 2900 fps. Someone GAVE me a box of these, which turned out to be the new ones WITHOUT the cannelure, and they shoot much better in my gun than the "old" new-style .338's with the crimping recess. Otherwise, I would have taken a Sako L61R .300 Win with 180 NP's at 3050 fps.

This year I am taking my Ruger 77 .338 WM using DoubleTap's loading of a 250gr. Partition Gold @ 2750fps. I was able to shoot a .92" three shot group at 100yds. That is unbelieveable with this rifle. If I place it right, then it is meat in the pot.

Forgot to mention that my brother will be heading out with his Rem 700 .35Whelen using 250gr. Grand Slams @ 2600fps. Like I already said: Meat in the pot.

A hot loaded custom 8x57 launching 180 TSX's 2.5x8 VX3 on top of it. Backed up by a Sako 75 .270WSM launching 140 TSX's at a bit better than 3200 3.5x10 VX3 on that one.