What's your favorite elk cartridge?
Pick your cartridge (and even your gun combo) and spill it. Which is your favorite for hunting elk? And why? What distances?
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Lately, around here any way, it seems that vehicles are the best elk medicine, but I prefer a 300 PRC.
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wolfpack: 30051139580187/comments/30051172251675
WV DNR is trying to establish a herd in southern WV but no hunting opportunities yet. They have brought some in and stocked them and also several have migrated from KY. Eastern KY has a good number of elk and I only live about an hour away from their elk zones. Ky brags about having the largest elk population east of the Mississippi. They are lottery drawn and it is almost impossible for a non resident to be drawn. Maybe in the future I will be able to hunt them, if I do I have a 300 Win mag I would probably use. They stocked them on old strip mine sites and shots can be quite long.
Out west here they are trying to do the opposite. They're introducing grizz and wolves to kill off all the elk.
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I found out today that Michigan has a resident-only elk license drawing every summer, with seasons in August/September, and November/December. Literal once in a lifetime opportunity as those who draw a bull elk tag are never eligible to enter again, those who draw a cow-only tag can't enter for ten years, only exception being that literally anybody(or maybe just any resident?) can enter the "Pure Michigan Hunt" sweepstakes the state puts on, which includes an elk tag, bear tag, turkey tag, and a couple others.
But of course, all those hoops to jump through kinda make sense when you factor in we only have like 900 elk in the entire state, all in a few counties between Mount Pleasant and the Mackinac Bridge. And it's also got me thinking if by the good Lord's grace I enter and draw a tag, and the terrain for the hunt turns out to be full of brush, maybe the trusty model 94 in 30 WCF might be a better option than the 30-06 with the 3-18x50 scope? Like Ron Spomer always says, right bullet in the right place.
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truthful what model muzzleloader are you shooting?
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Winchester Model 70, Leupold vx3 4-12, chambered I'm 30-06
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kidthatsirish: 30051139580187/comments/30051164563355
Winchester Model 70, Leupold vx3 4-12, chambered I'm 30-06
That's a swell set-up right there.
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