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How not, to use a 6.5 creedmoor
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<blockquote data-quote="MajorSpittle" data-source="post: 1601415" data-attributes="member: 53101"><p>First, to each his own.... I don't care what you shoot. I am not a big "Poor elk suffered" person......</p><p></p><p>They are wild animals we are shooting with guns and there is much suffering in the wild. Yeah I would never purposely make an animal suffer needlessly, but an elk is not someone's pet dog. I get sick of people going on and on about suffering, these animals stand out in -20 degree weather without eating for weeks in the winter and in the end are ripped apart, while alive, by wolves, coyotes, cars, trains, falls down cliffs....... yes, much suffering in the wild and it happens.</p><p></p><p>I personally would avoid elk hunting with a 6.5 for elk. When I am looking through my scope at a big heavy bull at "whatever" range, I want to know that if I hit the elk in the hip or shoulder that the bullet has enough energy to shatter it and really mess that elk up so I can finish it off and it doesn't just run 4 miles across 3 ridge lines in 8 minutes to never be seen again. </p><p></p><p>This video is real. A real elk hunt. From the comments, many of you have never been on a real elk hunt. **** does happen. It appears the hunter took his time and his first round hit, this is good..... After the elk is moving, follow up shots can be more difficult. If you are tracking through your scope the whole time to not lose track of the elk it is easy to not get a good range/angle/wind call because you don't have the field of view. Did the elk move to 650 from the 600 original yards, is it less down hill, is the wind blocked by the terrain more...... I wonder how many of you have hunted elk more than a couple times and if you ever have without a guide? At least the ones that are most critical on this forum. Anyone that has hunted elk for years and pulled the trigger on one 10 -20 time has seen the same **** that is in this video, but it happened to them. Probably with a 7mm/.300 magnum though, because anyone that hunts elk regularly in the rocky mountains will most likely be using one of those two rifles or bigger.</p><p></p><p>CONGRATS JACOB! Nice Elk! Way to stick with it and make sure it didn't run off and die needlessly somewhere to never be seen again. Great ending to a good hunt. Sorry for YOUR suffering while packing that monster out. I'd suggest using a little more gun next time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MajorSpittle, post: 1601415, member: 53101"] First, to each his own.... I don't care what you shoot. I am not a big "Poor elk suffered" person...... They are wild animals we are shooting with guns and there is much suffering in the wild. Yeah I would never purposely make an animal suffer needlessly, but an elk is not someone's pet dog. I get sick of people going on and on about suffering, these animals stand out in -20 degree weather without eating for weeks in the winter and in the end are ripped apart, while alive, by wolves, coyotes, cars, trains, falls down cliffs....... yes, much suffering in the wild and it happens. I personally would avoid elk hunting with a 6.5 for elk. When I am looking through my scope at a big heavy bull at "whatever" range, I want to know that if I hit the elk in the hip or shoulder that the bullet has enough energy to shatter it and really mess that elk up so I can finish it off and it doesn't just run 4 miles across 3 ridge lines in 8 minutes to never be seen again. This video is real. A real elk hunt. From the comments, many of you have never been on a real elk hunt. **** does happen. It appears the hunter took his time and his first round hit, this is good..... After the elk is moving, follow up shots can be more difficult. If you are tracking through your scope the whole time to not lose track of the elk it is easy to not get a good range/angle/wind call because you don't have the field of view. Did the elk move to 650 from the 600 original yards, is it less down hill, is the wind blocked by the terrain more...... I wonder how many of you have hunted elk more than a couple times and if you ever have without a guide? At least the ones that are most critical on this forum. Anyone that has hunted elk for years and pulled the trigger on one 10 -20 time has seen the same **** that is in this video, but it happened to them. Probably with a 7mm/.300 magnum though, because anyone that hunts elk regularly in the rocky mountains will most likely be using one of those two rifles or bigger. CONGRATS JACOB! Nice Elk! Way to stick with it and make sure it didn't run off and die needlessly somewhere to never be seen again. Great ending to a good hunt. Sorry for YOUR suffering while packing that monster out. I'd suggest using a little more gun next time. [/QUOTE]
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