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Offline Elk Hunter

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This years elk
« on: December 26, 2024, 11:21:28 PM »
November 09, 2024 opening morning 0715 hours rag horn bull walking at 95 yards. The rifle is a Pedersoli "African Hunter" 12 bore. The load 100 grains of Dupont 2 FG a .714 dia. soft lead ball with a .012 linen greased patch. The ball struck just in the crease behind the left shoulder and put a finger size hole thru the heart. You can see the exit on the right shoulder. Motive operations ceased is less than 25 yards. Now I have to wait until next year and hope I draw a tag.

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Offline smylee grouch

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2024, 11:46:57 PM »
Good shooting👌
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Offline wattlebuster

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2024, 01:32:30 AM »
Excellent. Fine eats there
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Offline snapper

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2024, 02:10:26 AM »
What State?

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2024, 03:28:01 AM »
Snapper,

The state is Oregon. More specifically Central Oregon.
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Offline Jeff Murray

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2024, 04:18:41 AM »
Good work.  That load has some thump!
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Offline Tony N

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2024, 02:50:03 PM »
Nice!!

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Offline MuskratMike

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2024, 08:27:13 PM »
Nice bull. I live in McMinnville. that looks like the Cascades, maybe in the 3 sisters area?
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Re: This years elk
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2024, 08:42:43 PM »
nice bull,
nice rifle,
really nice hat!
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Offline Daryl

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2024, 10:40:22 PM »
Good stuff, Elk Hunter. A lighter load than I used on moose, but obviously worked well for you.
Taylor's similar load (100gr. 2F) from a Bess with .715" ball, stopped under the hide on the off side of a big cow moose.
Yours exiting the bull elk was surprising to me.
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Offline smylee grouch

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2024, 12:40:19 AM »
Plus or minus 550 grain ball, 100  gr. Powder = big thump affect.
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Offline Daryl

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2024, 01:19:49 AM »
No question on that, however that load might be pushing only 1,100fps. I prefer something on the order of Forsyth's
1,550fps. Just a personal thing, dealing with possibly longer ranges & ball trajectory.
It is a seemingly dense piece of bush that elk was shot in, though.
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Re: This years elk
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2024, 03:09:14 AM »
Quote from: MuskratMike on December 27, 2024, 08:27:13 PM
Nice bull. I live in McMinnville. that looks like the Cascades, maybe in the 3 sisters area?


Good guess. East Cascades ML hunt, Metolius unit. The bull and the rest of the group were most likely pushed out of the Cascades by snow the week before the season. There were no tracks two weeks earlier while scouting the area.
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Re: This years elk
« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2024, 03:26:06 AM »
Quote from: Daryl on December 28, 2024, 01:19:49 AM
No question on that, however that load might be pushing only 1,100fps. I prefer something on the order of Forsyth's
1,550fps. Just a personal thing, dealing with possibly longer ranges & ball trajectory.
It is a seemingly dense piece of bush that elk was shot in, though.

This is the first elk taken with this rifle so I have no experience to judge the results by other than he never got completely out of sight before going down. At the shot it was obvious he was hit hard. I'm confident that out to one-hundred-fifty yards it would work it's magic.

Actually, this is a fairly open stand of Ponderosa Pine in a recent logging area. The bull fell just over the top of the ridge he was on where there was a few snow brush.
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Offline cordite

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2024, 04:47:59 AM »
Good job.  I used to have one of those rifles but never shot any game with it.
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Offline Daryl

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« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2024, 08:08:00 AM »
The only gun I've seen kill moose better than my .69, was my buddy Keith's .75.
Size does matter.
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Offline alacran

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2024, 04:41:49 PM »
Congratulations! Looks warm and green. That must be winter range for that area's elk. Nice photo I like the cow call hanging round your neck. Did you have someone with you to help and take the photo?
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Re: This years elk
« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2024, 05:33:37 PM »
Quote from: alacran on December 30, 2024, 04:41:49 PM
Congratulations! Looks warm and green. That must be winter range for that area's elk. Nice photo I like the cow call hanging round your neck. Did you have someone with you to help and take the photo?

Right now that area most likely has a foot or more of snow. I'm sure that some elk are still in that area but most move down lower to the private land. My elk hunting partner is my wife. She took the picture. The muzzleloader season is her favorite elk hunt. She's taken twelve elk, five with a muzzleloader. She didn't draw a tag this year so it was up to me to make meat. We had to call our older son to come help as we can't wrestle elk around the way we did a few years ago. It was all finished and hanging in the shop by 1430. I do love freezer training elk.

Keep the wind in your face, the sun at your back and your powder dry.
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Offline Daryl

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« Reply #18 on: December 30, 2024, 08:58:53 PM »
Fortunate to have help available. I had to give up elk and moose hunting. Just can't handle them by myself, any more.
One of these years, I'd like to get another whitetail buck, early in the season, nice and fat.
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Offline Leatherbark

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #19 on: December 31, 2024, 04:19:39 PM »
Wow that Dupont powder is at least 52 years old. Still as good as new!

Bob
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Offline Daryl

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #20 on: January 01, 2025, 03:54:11 AM »
I had 4 or 5 pounds of Dupont Powder back in the 70's. It lasted about 3 weeks.
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Offline ScottH

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Re: This years elk
« Reply #21 on: January 02, 2025, 10:03:12 PM »
Congrats, nice bull!
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Re: This years elk
« Reply #22 on: January 03, 2025, 02:00:32 AM »
Congrats, that's great!  One day I'll get out somewhere there's elk...
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