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That happened 15 years ago. Doesn’t make it any less tragic, and it’s a shame that it likely got less media attention then Kobe, but it didn’t happen today. https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=16798

Any cliff notes on it?

This is a really good buy on this gun. All the mods done to it were done by the best from what I can see, and are also necessary for these guns to perform the way they should. I have a Johnston ultimate and a sabotless build or I’d be all over it!!!

As far ahead as a lion or bear can be when they are being followed, if I glass a lion up moving across a hillside across me and I heard dogs at some point that day, I’m still shooting the lion. I’ve glassed up deer and elk that are sneaking out from an area where dogs are being run, I’m guessing that happens all the time with other lions or bears that aren’t being trailed.

That’s pretty cool. What’s that other little pistol?

Looks like a good truck gun....

Do you know if this is one of the older ones that you can float a shell under the bolt on?

Dump it all into a badger hole and shoot it with a Roman candle.

Yeah the 400 series units are more East and are pretty much all limited entry. If you’re in the 100’s 200’s or 300’s for the most part they’re all general. That’s also where all the big mountains are, the most pointy toothed critters, and the fewest elk.

There are some slammer bulls in MT but they are all on private for the most part. The public ground on the east side of the state can hold one but tags are tough over there. I’ve hunted about a half dozen different areas in MT, a few limited entry ones and have never seen a legit 350+ bull, but a buddy of mine killed a 386 along the lake this year so anything is possible. MT is a lot more feast and famine than any other state I’ve hunted elk in. One of the areas we hunted along Ft. Peck had 300 head standing in one center pivot. They never left it. Public access about 500 yards in every direction of that hay field but they had everything they need there and won’t leave. Really frustrating way of hunting.

Whoa!!! Giant!!! Your buck is a picture perfect dream buck too!

Wow!!! Dream lion there!!

All good advice, but one thing I would say is there aren’t any easy general bull elk taken in MT on public ground. If you plan to day hike you will be in for a long day just to get into elk. We hunted an area up the gunnison years ago. It was a 3.5 mile hike just to get where you start hunting. Didn’t even dream of seeing an elk track before that spot. Then hunt all day and get back to trailhead at midnight. We were too stupid and didn’t have the gear to bivy up in there back them nor did we have horses. Killed an elk or two but it wasn’t good hunting by any means. The first time I ever elk hunted in AZ I couldn’t believe you could see elk from a road. I hadn’t dreamt that was possible. At the end of the day MT is a land of a lot of opportunity, the right limited draw tag or the right private access and you can have giant bulls in your lap every year, but the wrong chunk of ground and you’re gonna be out for a hike every day. My step brother lives in Helena and is 2 for 9 on elk and hunts every weekend of the bow and rifle season. It’s not easy. The wolves complicate things. They aren’t the culprit though, go across the border into Wyoming and they have limited draw tags that take 12-14 points in the same country with the same wolves and they are killing giant bulls in there. The MT general tag moto is what kills all the elk. The wolves just cleaned up the scraps.

Looks like they make you hire a guide too?

This pic makes me tent up a little.