My brother & I were lucky enough to get drawn for rifle elk in our GHA in Southern Manitoba this fall. Season starts Sept 24 & ends Oct 14. Have a bit of load development to do on my 338-06 before the hunt, and not to mention some serious scouting!!! I can hardly wait

Wish us luck!!!

Glad to hear someone got an elk tag. My money is comming back accordng to the letter they sent me. Good Luck to you.

thanks snowman!! It's been a long 4 year wait to get our priority level high enough, but it was worth it!! Had a couple buddies drawn for archery in our GHA...it's a lot easier to draw an archery tag than a rifle tag that's for sure. I'll be sure to keep everyone here posted on how things go!

Congrats on your drawing of an elk tag. I too was lucky enough to draw an elk tag, but in the famed Fort ala Corne zone in Sask. Why do they have you not starting til Sept 24? Our season here starts Sept 1. What bullet are you going to shoot in your 338-06 for these critters? I have a 338-06AI and I'm shooting 210 Sciroccos with great success. Good luck with it all.

lagerboy, congrats to you as well!! I believe our season starts a bit later as we're quite a bit further south than the Fort ala Corne zone, we're only an hour drive north of the US border. Archery elk starts Aug 27 and runs to Sept 23...rifle Sept 24 to Oct 14!! I had a couple of boxes of Sierra Gameking 250gr gifted to me from an American friend, so may as well use 'em!! I bet those 210gr Sciroccos do a fine job. Good luck on your hunt & be sure to keep us posted on your success!

And you as well. You should be into some pretty nice weather for hunting by then. We hit the rut bang on here but it's hit and miss with the weather. If we get some frost then game on but it can also be +30 during the day. Not exactly conducive to great hunting or proper meat care. But I'll take a bad day of hunting any day over a good day at work. Keep us posted. Cheers.

Congrats!! I like 225gr Accubonds and TTSx's in my 338-06AI. Be my elk rig this year. Moose camp will be my traditional 300WM.

Good Luck

Actually MP I finally found a combination using Accubonds. For the longest time I had trouble finding a recipe that would group well. That's nice to have because these Swift Scirocco are hard to find here. Accubonds not so. Cheers.

58.5gr of H414 with 210 primers and 225gr Accubonds is what I use to fireform new 338-06AS brass. Its a medium-hot load. I believe the Nosler book starts at 56.0 and goes to 60.0 for H414 powder. Groups actually not too bad. I'm still tweaking my load after fireforming.

Ck82 just got back from my Elk hunt. Managed to shoot a 348 bull. Wow, those things are tough. He took 3 shots all under 75 yds. One through both lungs and two in neck. I have a huge amount of respect for those animals. It was a great trip. All went well. No bugs, a little rain everyday to cool things off and at the end of it all a tenderloin supper cooked over an open fire. I'll post some pics if I can figure it out. Oh, those Swift Scirocco held up extremely well. All 3 were 93% weight retention. Within 1 grain of each other. Cheers and hope you make out well.

Lagerboy Can we ask "where in the neck" did you hit him? Also where did you locate the bullet on the lung shot? and on the neck shots? 93% weight retention sounds pretty good.Congrates on your elk.

Snowman both shots in the neck were a foot back of his ears. The first neck shot was soft tissue only and the third was spinal. The one that went though lung was high in lung area. All three were up against opposite hide. The two neck shots were not neccasary but with rain threatening again I did not want to take a chance. After the first shot he went about 100 yds and laid down. My partner cow called to get him to stand and that's when the neck shots were taken. He had laid there to die. Hope I answered your question. This particular 210gr load is travelling at 2865fps.

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Originally posted by lagerboy:
Ck82 just got back from my Elk hunt. Managed to shoot a 348 bull. Wow, those things are tough. He took 3 shots all under 75 yds. One through both lungs and two in neck. I have a huge amount of respect for those animals. It was a great trip. All went well. No bugs, a little rain everyday to cool things off and at the end of it all a tenderloin supper cooked over an open fire. I'll post some pics if I can figure it out. Oh, those Swift Scirocco held up extremely well. All 3 were 93% weight retention. Within 1 grain of each other. Cheers and hope you make out well.

Great to hear lagerboy!! Congrats on the 348, a trophy for sure...plus the meat is probably pretty tasty I would imagine. I finally have my 338-06 dialed in and ready to go...been counting down the days, can hardly wait! If you can't figure out how to post the pics I can put 'em up for ya if you email 'em to me. I'll PM you my email address.

CK82

Lagerboy 210 gr bullets @ 2865 is close to 3800 ft/lbs of muzzle energy.Thats pretty close to 338 Win Mag ballistics. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the poor penetration you received. A 75 yd shot in the "soft"tissue of the neck 12 inches behind the ears. I would have thought that bullet would have exited. Same with the lung shot. I've taken several elk and moose and quite a few black bears with a 338 and the only bullet I've ever recovered was a going away shot on a wounded moose.That bullet penetrated almost 3ft of the backbone.Still a dam nice elk.

Snowman, I know what you are saying. None of us can figure it out either. The fellow that made my rifle is also a competetive shooter cannot believe what happened there. I'm fully aware of the energy delivered and can't believe it myself. I too thought there would have been complete pass throughs. Did you see the pics of the bullets in the other thread? Come to think of it Snowman, the large moose I shot 2 ys ago was shot at 100 yds broadside through the lungs twice at 100yds. He fell right there and I also found both those bullets on far hide. Those bullets were Hornady 225 IB and were mushroomed almost completely but held together very well also. Maybe I should go back to my trusty 270. Hahaha. Cheers.