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At about 11, I was in a deer camp with Dad. Some guys came buy, stopped to jaw, then ferried their motorcycles over the river. One of...

I’d add that the boring old .270 is a more than adequate elk gun as well, not as in it can kill if everything is perfect but as in many...

Interesting articles. One point that emerges is simplistic: measure what you care about directly - use the actual bullet on-target...

Two fascinating articles regarding load development, the standard "ladder test" approach, the "Satterlee" approach and velocity nodes...

i think he's concerned with meat damage....

Berger bullets are fragmenting bullets on impact by design. I had long used Nosler and Hornady bullets (I still do, though) before...

There is also Granite Mountain, if you're willing to wait and spend the money.... about as good an action as can be had.

my search only came back with stiller and dillon, but not in repeaters? the rigby bolt faces are easier to find (well for me anyway)...

Yep. You don't know what ya don't know. Some of the best lessons are the hardest ones.

I wouldn't feel bad about it, it happed to me the first time I went also, I'm my case I was in an unknown place one the first couple...

I have not gone on an Elk hunt yet , but would like to in the future. Thanks for posting this story, it’s a hard lesson to learn, but I...

Yep sounds like bone sour. Any bone soured meat I've been around has also started taking on a green tint to it in the spoiled area...

I'm guessing that at this point the O.P. may be regretting even posting this, which would be unfortunate. As someone else said, there is...

I'd start on the "inside" of the quarter that was up against the bone and trim away anything that's gray-ish. If there's not color...

Jarodjohns, Congratulations on killing and Elk. And yes some people on here are being a bit harsh to say the least. I can't tell you how...