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Ideal 1000yd Elk rifle?
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<blockquote data-quote="MMERSS" data-source="post: 825329" data-attributes="member: 63748"><p>My favorite elk hunting area seems to hold a band of ranges for successful harvests. The area is extremely thick with small openings. The predominant successful either shoot elk within 50 yards or by those setting up in the high ground waiting for the elk to move into open ground. These LR ranges can be 800+ with many opportunities above 1000. 50 or below or 800+. Certainly any centerfire rifle I own is capable of the 50 or below. Many of my rifles are capable of the 800+ but one caliber has proven to be a clear choice and not by successful practice or good fortune but by ballistics capability. I could use my 6.5, or multiple 7's, 30's to include the RUM. They all shoot well and some extremely well up to and beyond 1000. Yet I use my 338 Lapua and 300gr Bergers for those long ranges.</p><p> </p><p> I'd admit I'm one of those guys having to go bigger. Moving up to the 338 AM is about as big as you can get for a 338. Ballistics capability at those long ranges is the reason. If I could achieve the same with my other "smaller" cartridges I would use them. Moving up to the 338AM extends my ranges with same hit probability over the 338 Lapua, and I gain kinetic energy. The same can be said for the 338 Lapua over my other rifles. I'll take higher ballistics and better hit probability and kinetic energy any day and at the expense of powder, recoil, weight. An elk is a big animal, I want to put it down where it stands.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MMERSS, post: 825329, member: 63748"] My favorite elk hunting area seems to hold a band of ranges for successful harvests. The area is extremely thick with small openings. The predominant successful either shoot elk within 50 yards or by those setting up in the high ground waiting for the elk to move into open ground. These LR ranges can be 800+ with many opportunities above 1000. 50 or below or 800+. Certainly any centerfire rifle I own is capable of the 50 or below. Many of my rifles are capable of the 800+ but one caliber has proven to be a clear choice and not by successful practice or good fortune but by ballistics capability. I could use my 6.5, or multiple 7’s, 30’s to include the RUM. They all shoot well and some extremely well up to and beyond 1000. Yet I use my 338 Lapua and 300gr Bergers for those long ranges. I’d admit I’m one of those guys having to go bigger. Moving up to the 338 AM is about as big as you can get for a 338. Ballistics capability at those long ranges is the reason. If I could achieve the same with my other “smaller” cartridges I would use them. Moving up to the 338AM extends my ranges with same hit probability over the 338 Lapua, and I gain kinetic energy. The same can be said for the 338 Lapua over my other rifles. I’ll take higher ballistics and better hit probability and kinetic energy any day and at the expense of powder, recoil, weight. An elk is a big animal, I want to put it down where it stands. [/QUOTE]
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