DrMike
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Dan managed to tag his elk; the 35 Whelen has now been blooded. He'll be along sometime tomorrow to tell how it all went down.
Sask Boy's Elk Hunt
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gerry
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Nice work Dan 
Since his 280 AI isn't up and running yet (I think) his 270 Win must have spoken I guess we will find out more tomorrow. Maybe the 277 150 gr ABLR got a work out
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DrMike
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Misprint on my part, Gerry. I meant to say, "His 35 Whelen has now been blooded.
gerry
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Thanks Mike, looking forward to the story.
Oldtrader3
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Me too, good going Dan with the Whelen!
LD375
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Good stuff Dan!..looking forward to the story, and more pics too
Lou
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Guy Miner
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Hegland":200mrwdl said:They look delicious.
Indeed they do! I was thinking the same thing. Congrats!
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Sask,
Congrats on your success. We need the details buddy. Bullet, load distance etc. :wink:
Don
Congrats on your success. We need the details buddy. Bullet, load distance etc. :wink:
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congrats!!!!!!!!!!!
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Congrats!
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Awesome Man!!
Great job and Congrats.
Great job and Congrats.
Well guys made it back late last night . The first 5 days there was a lot of hard work & no success however last 4 days were very successful & way more hard work. We went 5 or 6 that is as good as we have ever done!!!
Thursday night around 40 minutes before legal shooting time was up my cousin chirped in a elk & my hunting partner of 40 years was able to drop a 2 year old cow Elk using a 338 win mag. the range was 256 yards and she went down like a sack of cement.
On Friday evening I was in my forest edge blind and glassing a large pea field as I had the night before. At approximately 6:50pm 2 cows and 2 calves came into the field so I ranged them at 1056 yards using my Leica 1600 B range finder. I knew I had to try & sneak them so I walked around the forest edge and then for approximately 350 yards a I had to do a duck walk as the grass in the slough was not tall enough to hide my presence. At 700 yards I had to stop & roll around on the grass as my left hamstring had cramped up :shock:. I was told it was quite the sight to see a old guy doing the duck walk and then having to stop because his left leg would not move. When I stopped it seemed like eternity or at least 2 or 3 minutes :mrgreen: to have my heart rate regulate while I laid on my back trying to rub the cramp out at the same time. I was able to get the cramp out but quickly realizing that I still had to walk that same way another 250 yards. Well as I got around the slough I realized that I was running out of cover so I again ranged her and found that I was still 507 yards away,realizing that I was going to have to go for it from there I set up my bog pod and rested again for a 300 count as I was breathing real hard. I then placed the cross hairs over her back and touched one off. You could hear the whack but the animal did not move so I touch off again & again there was a loud whack before the report of the rifle. The cow then ran into the bush. I was positive that I smacked her twice but did not stop her she ran into the big bush. It was decided that we would leave her until the next morning (not much sleep that night). At 7:00 am we walk into the bush and at approximately 8:00am my brother and I saw a calf in a slough bottom so my brother dropped her and about 20 ft from the calf we found her mom expired. We then called my cousin, he brought the flat deck and the quad and he pulled both animals to the trailer. We then took the animals home skinned them & cleaned them up by this time it was almost 4:00pm. We then drove to the locker plant approximately 45 minutes away and helped quarter them and then load them in the cooler. The cow weighed 336lbs and the calf was 146lbs. I shot my cow Elk using my RMR in the 35 Whelen and shooting 225gr.ABs they went over my chrony at approximately 2735fps. Yesterday morning the plan was to drive an glass the fields as we had 1 tag left to fill & then leave for home at noonish but a friend from up there advised that they had seen Elk late last night while combining and he asked us to take a young fellow out and help him his first big game animal. I pushed the Elk right by them both and each knocked down a good cow. While we were gone to get the front-end loader the young guy made a mistake thinking he was helping so he attempted to field dress his Elk by himself and it took me almost 90 minutes to correct what he was attempting. After fielding dressing his we lifted it into his truck with the front-end loader and he went home extremely happy. We then field dressed our Elk and then took it back to farm where we skinned it and cleaned it before taking it to the processing plant.
I was able to recover both of the 225gr. AB bullets out of the animals. My cow was shot at 507 yards & the 225 gr. AB entered high left side and the bullet was found on the opposite side right at the hide it still weighed 200 grs. the calf was shot with the same rifle and at approximately 100 yards the bullet entered high on the left hip & I found it in the hide on the left front shoulder so that bullet traveled the entire length of the yearly calf.
I believe that Mike is going to post the photos of the 2 bullets that I recovered hope you guys will be impressed with their performance.
I am likely in the best shape of my life but this hunt took a lot out of this old guy still not ready to retire those 8).
PS. We are going to have a freezer full of Elk and I am sure we will have at least 1 Moose this year as well. GOD is good.
Blessings,
Dan
. The first 5 days there was a lot of hard work & no success however last 4 days were very successful & way more hard work. We went 5 or 6 that is as good as we have ever done!!!Thursday night around 40 minutes before legal shooting time was up my cousin chirped in a elk & my hunting partner of 40 years was able to drop a 2 year old cow Elk using a 338 win mag. the range was 256 yards and she went down like a sack of cement.
On Friday evening I was in my forest edge blind and glassing a large pea field as I had the night before. At approximately 6:50pm 2 cows and 2 calves came into the field so I ranged them at 1056 yards using my Leica 1600 B range finder. I knew I had to try & sneak them so I walked around the forest edge and then for approximately 350 yards a I had to do a duck walk as the grass in the slough was not tall enough to hide my presence. At 700 yards I had to stop & roll around on the grass as my left hamstring had cramped up :shock:. I was told it was quite the sight to see a old guy doing the duck walk and then having to stop because his left leg would not move. When I stopped it seemed like eternity or at least 2 or 3 minutes :mrgreen: to have my heart rate regulate while I laid on my back trying to rub the cramp out at the same time. I was able to get the cramp out but quickly realizing that I still had to walk that same way another 250 yards. Well as I got around the slough I realized that I was running out of cover so I again ranged her and found that I was still 507 yards away,realizing that I was going to have to go for it from there I set up my bog pod and rested again for a 300 count as I was breathing real hard. I then placed the cross hairs over her back and touched one off. You could hear the whack but the animal did not move so I touch off again & again there was a loud whack before the report of the rifle. The cow then ran into the bush. I was positive that I smacked her twice but did not stop her
she ran into the big bush. It was decided that we would leave her until the next morning (not much sleep that night). At 7:00 am we walk into the bush and at approximately 8:00am my brother and I saw a calf in a slough bottom so my brother dropped her and about 20 ft from the calf we found her mom expired. We then called my cousin, he brought the flat deck and the quad and he pulled both animals to the trailer. We then took the animals home skinned them & cleaned them up by this time it was almost 4:00pm. We then drove to the locker plant approximately 45 minutes away and helped quarter them and then load them in the cooler. The cow weighed 336lbs and the calf was 146lbs. I shot my cow Elk using my RMR in the 35 Whelen and shooting 225gr.ABs they went over my chrony at approximately 2735fps. Yesterday morning the plan was to drive an glass the fields as we had 1 tag left to fill & then leave for home at noonish but a friend from up there advised that they had seen Elk late last night while combining and he asked us to take a young fellow out and help him his first big game animal. I pushed the Elk right by them both and each knocked down a good cow. While we were gone to get the front-end loader the young guy made a mistake thinking he was helping so he attempted to field dress his Elk by himself and it took me almost 90 minutes to correct what he was attempting. After fielding dressing his we lifted it into his truck with the front-end loader and he went home extremely happy. We then field dressed our Elk and then took it back to farm where we skinned it and cleaned it before taking it to the processing plant.I was able to recover both of the 225gr. AB bullets out of the animals. My cow was shot at 507 yards & the 225 gr. AB entered high left side and the bullet was found on the opposite side right at the hide it still weighed 200 grs. the calf was shot with the same rifle and at approximately 100 yards the bullet entered high on the left hip & I found it in the hide on the left front shoulder so that bullet traveled the entire length of the yearly calf.
I believe that Mike is going to post the photos of the 2 bullets that I recovered hope you guys will be impressed with their performance.
I am likely in the best shape of my life but this hunt took a lot out of this old guy still not ready to retire those 8).
PS. We are going to have a freezer full of Elk and I am sure we will have at least 1 Moose this year as well. GOD is good.
Blessings,
Dan
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DrMike
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Here is the bullet from Dan's cow. He reports the weight as 200 grains.
Here is the bullet from the calf. The weight appears to be 187.5 grains.
Good performance on those elk, I'd say.
Here is the bullet from the calf. The weight appears to be 187.5 grains.
Good performance on those elk, I'd say.
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DrMike
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sask boy":22s0eknh said:
Du rien.
gerry
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Congrats Dan, 507 yards is a long way out but it all worked out for you in the end. Looks like the the bullets expanded well for both the close shot and the long shot. I'm glad you were able to get some meat in the freezer
