WYO Bull Elk - HAMMERED .284 177s

[landonm]

Couple great bulls! Congrats! #Gunwerked!

 

[JMack]

Many! Filled a 150 igloo, 75 yeti and a styrofoam one from the butcher. Let me tell ya we were loaded on the trip home!

That's just one elk

 

[JustMe2]

I did notice two holes in the rib cage the exit was probably golf ball sized and if I had to guess the bullet lodged into the off side shoulder, he was slightly quartering away from me. I don't think there was a lot of bloodshot meat especially based on the amount I got back, definitely didn't ruin an entire shoulder or anything. Internal damage appeared to be pretty devastating lots of dark colored blood clots in the diaphragm lungs and heart were pretty tore up. I wasn't expecting the bull to drop, but he definitely wasn't going to run anywhere pretty much staggered ten steps or so.

Congratulations, those are awesome bulls. I'm confused by your comment above. How can you have a golf ball sized exit hole and also have the bullet lodged in the shoulder. If it exited, the bullet would be laying on the ground somewhere.

 

[JMack]

Congratulations, those are awesome bulls. I'm confused by your comment above. How can you have a golf ball sized exit hole and also have the bullet lodged in the shoulder. If it exited, the bullet would be laying on the ground somewhere.

Sorry the bullet exited the rib cage but not the elk

 

[JMack]

Congratulations, those are awesome bulls. I'm confused by your comment above. How can you have a golf ball sized exit hole and also have the bullet lodged in the shoulder. If it exited, the bullet would be laying on the ground somewhere.

Because of the slight angle the bullet entered behind the shoulder on entrance side then went thu rib cage into the pit of the offside shoulder

make sense?

 

[JMack]

@JMack This is awesome! I'll be headed out to Wyoming, from PA, for my first elk hunt later this year.

I'll be shooting an original Remington 8mm Rem Mag BDL that's been grouping 200gr TSXs around 1" at 300 yards at 3,125FPS! All this practice at distance and I've recently been made aware that the majority of guys take elk in the area at under 100!

How much meat did ya end up with? And, if you don't mind me asking, what did the processing run ya? We are debating trying to figure out getting the quarters home and butchering ourselves, or just having it done in Wyoming.

First thanks and good luck I hope you knock a bruiser down. I'm guessing200- 250lb, hanging carcass weight with no hide on mine was 515lb. They charged 700$ butchering wrapping freezing caping and cleaning the skull plate. I actually don't mind paying it supports the local economy and keeps places like that in business

 

[Pdvdh]

Nice job. Glad the bullet performed. Sic'em...

 

[6.5x300 WBY]

Wow a dream hunt. Congrats.

 

[orange1948]

That is a dream hunt. Great memories made. Congratulations!
Duane

 

[lobo56]

What an amazing hunt! Successful all around. Such fond memories that you will never forget.

Congratulations! Way to go!

 

[Cody Nielsen]

Gotta love that area of Wyoming. Congrats on a successful hunt Where's the coyote pic though?

 

[Laguna Freak]

Epic hunt! Congrats!

The grandchildren will be hearing this hunting story...

 

[skipglo]

Just got back home here in Pennsylvania last Saturday from a few great days of elk hunting on a general tag in eastern Wyoming and wanted to give a full report. I teased you all a bit in another thread but this one is the official report

shooting a short 20" barrel 28 nosler, 177 hammer hunters at 2860 mv, accuracy is less than 1/2 moa so I just left it at that.

The mid morning of second day we headed to a lookout above some cut banks in sage country, my buddy had been seeing a few good bulls in the area last few weeks, bedded in the sand and shade. We get to a nice big flat rock and weren't there 3 minutes maybe out pops a nice 6x6 from the canyons. As you'll see in the pic he came out between the two trees on opposite side of cut from where we were, both of my buddies ranged him at 521, by the time I got on him he had taken a few more steps, I checked my dope, dialed 7.5 moa put the crosshairs on crease behind shoulder and touched it off. I saw him flinch in scope so I knew it was a solid hit and by the time I got another round in and back on the scope I watched him tip over. He did the ten step shuffle and it was lights out. We hooted and high fived for a minute then drive to him, as we were gawking at my bull another slightly larger bull busted out of the canyon and stopped at 250 ish yards my hunting buddy let him have it. DRT. Low and behold another bull of the same caliber busts out of the opposite side of canyon.

The three of us just kind of looked around wondering what just happened. Ha!

The next day we went back to the rock and I witnessed my buddy knock down a coyote at 900 yards. Pretty impressive!

Enjoy the pictures!

This was my longest kill shot and the hammer bullets gave me the confidence to make the shot!

Disclaimer: I do not work for hammer bullets nor do I get anything for endorsing them. They work.

Well done fellas!!!! Hope to get a few next week! I will have my son and my 13 year old granddaughter along on her first trip!

 

[skipglo]

Gotta love that area of Wyoming. Congrats on a successful hunt Where's the coyote pic though?

I think that's why they thru in the pic of the car....they actually ran it over I'm thinking! Saw it a nine hundred ...... running down the road!