What are all you guys using for Elk. I unfortunately have not been too sucessful here as of late with my inlines and my last one was shot with my 54 and a Hornady Great Plains Conical.

Need to find something good before December 7th when my damage control cow tag that has a 99.9% sucess ratio kicked off. Last time I got drawn I hunted 15 minutes after a 1 hour hike from the truck and boom/flop on a big tastey cow.

Have been using the PR Dead Center with deestating effects on deer but the 340 gr I have recovered seem to have shed a lot of wieght. Only ever had one stay in the deer it was a quartering too me shot through the front shoulder that lodged in the skin on the far side. My Inlines love them. My 54 am sticking with the fffg and a big conical and it shot great yet again yesterday do not know why I ever bought these inlines. Here in Washington we have to use all lead bullets also as a reminder for your bullet recomendations. My two Austin Hellecks that I love to shoot really love these 340gr PR Dead Centers. With open sights I get ragged holes at 50yds and moving to 100 I am a real limitation and they open up to 1 1/2". Don't know how fast they are am pushing them with 100gr by volume ffg Triple 7 powder. Was shooting the 405gr (all lead) Powerbelts this weekend to see how they shoot and these also shoot great groups out of both Austin Hellecks. So picked some 54 powerbelts up to try in the sidelock.

So another quandy is I bought another Washington State legal rifle recently as they are getting few and far between in the legal sense and also the ones I like. I am particular on the safety and hate the legal Knight rifle for its cocker/safety. I got a screaming deal on a T/C Black Diamond Express. Nice little light rifle expessially compared to my Austin and Hellecks. But heck what a kick. Anyhow. The sights don't have enough adjustment to get the gun up on target at 50yds. Tried the 340gr Dead Centers and get them the closest hitting the bottom of a 6" shoot and see. 295gr, 405gr powerbelts were way low and to the right. 385gr and 410gr Hornady Conicals were also low but centered with the dead centers. All were only tried with 100gr loose ffg Triple 7.

Swapped the sights for a set of Truglow Fiberoptics that seemed to have a larger rear ramp adjustment. We'll see how that works after my bruised up right shoulder gets to feeling a little better. Shot all four of my ML'ers with full house hunting loads yesterday so am a bit sour.