What type of bullet did you use on your last elk?

[rgvt4]

300WSM Factory Barnes 165GR TTSX 80 YARDS Lunged and took 10 steps and tipped over dead

 

[BUCKWORKMAN]

.338 Win. Mag. Ruger No.1, 250 grain Barnes TTSX, high shoulder, low neck shot DRT @227 yds. ranged. Down face first with a mouth full of dirt......OH hell Yeah !

 

[duckhunter175]

Remington 783 .308, factory Hornady Black, 168gr Amax--- one shot into a Red Stag at 75 yards. Took 3 steps and tipped over.

 

[AndrewOSOK]

Pick the bullet that most correlates to a choice.

Also if you have a chance, tell us the muzzle velocity, and how did it do? Also note the impact velocity and range if you can.

Thanks for providing this info. As a long time elk hunter i'm trying to look outside my box and see what others are doing.

I used my Winchester 1300 slug gun, yes a 12 gauge. Copper Solids 80 yards in thick timber.
He didn't go anywhere but down...

 

[Yotekiller]

I shoot Berger VLD hunters. picked the ultra low drag option

 

[Mc Fraser]

Tikka T3 270 140gr Sierra gameking 300yds dropped after 20yds

 

[Robert M Boren Sr]

Pick the bullet that most correlates to a choice.

Also if you have a chance, tell us the muzzle velocity, and how did it do? Also note the impact velocity and range if you can.

Thanks for providing this info. As a long time elk hunter i'm trying to look outside my box and see what others are doing.

30/06 Sierra 180gr SPBT, has worked great for me over the last 40 years, out to 400 yds.

 

[rbTanzan]

Last buffalo and hartebeest were monolithic .416 350gnTTSX at 2825 fps. Good medicine. Hartebeest dumped, buffalo shot back lung/back of leg and ran about 125 yards, wanted another shot. Never hunted elk, but I'd use the same bullet structures.

They work from impala and up, and two months ago took a little Calif blacktail mule-deer with .338" 185gnTTSX 3125 fps, face-on at 302 yards, flipping the buck in his tracks.

 

[MShields]

.308 165 gr SilverTip - mz vel 3150 -

 

[MShields]

300 WSM, 165 gr CT SilverTip, 3150 fps mv - 203yds - mid chest directly behind left front shoulder. 6 pt didn't go more than 8 yds. Through shot, did not recover bullet, sizable exit trauma.

 

[Predator 22]

Berger 6.5mm 140 grain vld hunting ~100yards 2650 fps impact velocity from a 6.5x55 Swede. Bull soaked up the first shot and stepped behind a tree for about 10 seconds before falling down, got his feet back under him and received a insurance shot. After opening him up it was clear it wasn't needed. Working on getting a 28 Nosler built to shoot the 195's.

 

[kstitz]

Nosler ABLR 175gr out of my 7 mag on a large bull @ 480yds. Bull was slightly quartering away and standing on a steep grade. Bullet hit him back and high on rib cage. At impact the bull lunged forward and just stood there wobbling for about 10 seconds and then fell over dead. I did the gutless so I did not see all of the destruction but the liver was destroyed. The bullet did not exit but I never found any bullet fragments.

 

[Wolf76]

215 Berger, 300 wm, 208 yards, 6x6
Face plant with a high lung shot quartering to me. 1" exit.

 

[mogfan]

Hornaday 129 gr, 6.5 Interbond. Cow at 328 yards - dropped with double lung shot. vel was 3050 in a 6.5 x 284