In Your Eyes The Perfect Elk Gun
#14
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Posts: 21

I LOVE my 340 Weatherby MkV stainless. I have a bad shoulder and have to go with a lighter rife for packing or I would not change a thing. I do not want to pay to have a custom rifle built in that caliber just to save weight.
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: WY
Posts: 2,056

I have a Weatherby Vanguard (of the Wal-Mart variety) in .300 Weatherby that drives tacks, but think for elk I'd like it better in .30-06 and topped by something (probably Leupold) 2-7x. I love my M700s too, but for the money, that Vanguard's one of the best rifles I've ever bought, just not all that fond of magnums anymore.
#16

Surprised to see so many weatherby fans here! While I'd take that .300wby over the .30-06, but my .340 wby is just too sweet, can't wait to get on some BIG game with it.
.300 RUM seems pretty sweet too, copy of the .300 wby I think....
.300 RUM seems pretty sweet too, copy of the .300 wby I think....
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location:
Posts: 166

A Kimber 8400 Montana in .325 WSM topped with a Swarovski Z6 1.75-10. Quick enough with the low power variable for dark timber and plenty of punch cross canyon. I'd send it off to Hill Country rifles if I thought it was lacking in accuracy.
#19

The perfect Elk gun isn't so much the cal. for me as it is the wieght anddesign..
The rifle has to be easy enough to pack around, and when I do want to shoot the butt must beagainst my shoulder before my eyes meet the line of site..
Bolt knob must also be directly above trigger so I can eject and chamber in another round with out moving my head and my eyes away from the scope and the target..
Yep bigger cal is generally better, but a perfect fitting rifle is far more important when it comes to elk hunting than cal..
I've seen 2-3 shots with a .338 kill a 600 bullelk and I've seen one shot from a 7mm-08 kill a slightly bigger bull elk.
If I see a bull elk I'm not,not, gonna go after and try to kill it because I don't havethe perfect elk cal, but what will stop me from attempting to kill it, is a firearm that does not fit me right and I cannot make a clean shot in the vitals..
The rifle has to be easy enough to pack around, and when I do want to shoot the butt must beagainst my shoulder before my eyes meet the line of site..
Bolt knob must also be directly above trigger so I can eject and chamber in another round with out moving my head and my eyes away from the scope and the target..
Yep bigger cal is generally better, but a perfect fitting rifle is far more important when it comes to elk hunting than cal..
I've seen 2-3 shots with a .338 kill a 600 bullelk and I've seen one shot from a 7mm-08 kill a slightly bigger bull elk.
If I see a bull elk I'm not,not, gonna go after and try to kill it because I don't havethe perfect elk cal, but what will stop me from attempting to kill it, is a firearm that does not fit me right and I cannot make a clean shot in the vitals..