Favorite Rifle/Caliber For Elk
10-04-2011, 08:24 PM
#12
Spike
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 42
Instead of getting rid of your rifle I'd look at a muzzle brake.
I like this one myself:
http://www.muzzlebrakes.com/Default.aspx
I shoot a .300 Win Mag myself and consider it a great elk caliber. Another option is this:
http://graco-corp.com/products/model-number-gc15r
Put the Graco and a Vais on and your .300 WSM will shoot like a 7mm - 08.
Biker
I like this one myself:
http://www.muzzlebrakes.com/Default.aspx
I shoot a .300 Win Mag myself and consider it a great elk caliber. Another option is this:
http://graco-corp.com/products/model-number-gc15r
Put the Graco and a Vais on and your .300 WSM will shoot like a 7mm - 08.
Biker
10-07-2011, 07:45 AM
#13
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 105
My feeling is that if you have to use recoil reducing gizmo's on a rifle, your shooting to much cartridge. In every cal from the 6.5's up are really good cup and core bullet's that will do exactly as you need in standard cartridges. My last two elk were killed with my 6.5x06 and 140gr Hornady's and if there's another it will be with my 6.5x55. The secret is in the choice of bullet. If velocity is the Holy Grail to you, I can't help you. Men used to kill elk very dead with round lead balls.
10-08-2011, 01:06 PM
#15
Spike
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Florissant, Colorado
Posts: 62
I use a 338 Remington Ultra Mag. and a 375 H&H Magnum for elk. You need to get out and practice more. I go shooting about 30 times a year. When I shoot my 30-06 or 270 Win., they don't even kick. Do alot of practice with your 22, real cheap and helps alot when that time comes to pull the trigger.
10-09-2011, 01:31 PM
#16
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: northernwestern south dakota
Posts: 722
I have a buddy that had a 300 win mag that kicked like muley hunter (have to see a pic of him to understand that statement), he put a muzzle brake on it and now it kicks like a .243. But it is loud as hell now. I have only killed 1 elk and that is the one on my avatar, i had my ruger 7mm rem mag with handloaded 150 gr nosler partitions, it was a 75 yrd shot and he only went one direction and that was straight down.
Last edited by sdhunter11; 10-09-2011 at 01:34 PM.
10-15-2011, 09:41 AM
#19
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 12
I have a .300 WM that kicks like h3ll too. I wanted to sell/trade it off until one day at the local gun shop the guy said exactly what another poster said here, "it only takes one round to kill the critter you are after". So with that I now you a shooting sled and small ratchet straps to secure the rifle in the sled when sighting it in. Once I think I have it sighted in I shoot three rounds and if it is acceptable, that is it, I put it away until I head out hunting. It is a very, very accurate rifle (Rem 700 Classic) and I am so glad now that I didnt get rid of it.
Chief
Chief
10-20-2011, 05:51 PM
#20
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 32
I shoot a very similar rifle as the original poster...except a Sako Finlight in a .300 WSM caliber. Does it kick, sure, but not to the point that I'd ever think about selling it. It's a real tack driver.
This past week I took this bull with an uphill 376 yard shot. I was shooting Winchester Supreme Elite 180 grain bullets. He dropped in his tracks and you can see the exit hole in the photo...good stuff!!
This past week I took this bull with an uphill 376 yard shot. I was shooting Winchester Supreme Elite 180 grain bullets. He dropped in his tracks and you can see the exit hole in the photo...good stuff!!
