GreyGhost85

375 ruger would be a hellacious elk thumper. Just probably need to keep your shots within about 400 yards.

someone did on a different post a couple days ago

Gotta be u28

Growing up in a big butcher shop, it never ceased to amaze me what elk live through. Lots of bullets and arrows, even in the chest. A buddy of mine dang near centerpunched a huge buck a few years ago. Saw him chasing does a year later with a big scar on his side. Dug plenry of old broadheads out of elk shoulders

Neat colored little bear. Bottom buck is gonna be a bomber

Right unit, wrong landmark

Gotta be cancer or something else bad. That poor thing doesn't have much time left.

Look at the zeiss dialyte. Love the no frills design. I've compared them to the razor and i think they are better. They pack very nice, very light and are built really tough. Hard to beat for around $1500

That's what big bears look like

The buck with the big prongs looks a lot bigger than the first one. Horn length is not nearly as important as mass and prongs

kinda surprised this one is still for sale

Use hornady one shot lube. Problems solved

Generally heavy bullets expand a lot less than light bullets and cause less meat damage due to lower velocities.. A 180 out of an ultra mag traveling at 3,500 fps, compared to one out of a 30-06 traveling 2700 fps, will be much more destructive. Velocity is what causes bullets of all weights to expand and cause damage.

Not sure what "legally shoot" means? not sure what else you are looking for

First coues hunt? Something with antlers. Worry about score once you learn to hunt them

lost one of these 2 years ago on a Colorado antelope hunt. i absolutely abused it for 10 years and it always worked great. ranged consistently out to around 1500 yards. bump for a great product

game and fish takes too long on the draw= massive complaining. game and fish gets the draw done on time and faster than ever with fewer issues=massive complaining. come on people

did he say what hunts are better? fall or spring?

glad it worked out for ya. he seemed like a standup dude in the podcast. i think we will all be expecting a good hunt story out of this one

like Murph said, 21 probably isn't the best unit to pack horses into. units with wilderness areas, and big tracts of roadless country are the units you would want to pack in to. horses really do pay off when you get an animal knocked down, especially elk. i packed in 8-9 miles last year on mules/horses into a wilderness area and still saw a few people hunting in there. somtimes they an really pay off, but a lot of the time they are more trouble than they are worth

running your numbers, you had a .3% chance of drawing that tag. time to admit it was luck and not "playing your odds"

I don't know anything about this hunt, but the jay scott podcast about buffalo hunting with Russ Jacoby was really good. He gives his contact info at the end and said he will be glad to help anyone out, even if you don't book a hunt with him. It would be a good start for sure. The guy sounds like a buffalo nut

How you play your odds? Of course, you can't waste BP on a unit that fills up with max point holders, but how exactly do you "play the odds" with sheep. Without max, you are looking at about.1-2% draw odds accross the board, no matter how many BP you have. Unless you hold max for sheep, BP's don't really matter in any unit.

Seems odd that a guy on here lost one in a camo case. This dude posts one up for about half price, camo case and all...hmmmmm