Great Opening Weekend!

[Elkwhisper]

Had a great weekend with some even better friends. We were able to get two of our crew their first bulls, and your truly gave his first "Howa Handshake" to a tasty cow.

Really liking the new Howa Alpine in 6.5 Creedmore.

 

[LCH]

Great photos.. Those elk look monstrous. Nice lookin' rifles too. Good job.

 

[Big Fin]

Had a great weekend with some even better friends. We were able to get two of our crew their first bulls, and your truly gave his first "Howa Handshake" to a tasty cow.

Really liking the new Howa Alpine in 6.5 Creedmore.

Great stuff. Congrats to all.

Howa is sending me a Creedmore. Right now I am toting the .308 Win and the .7mm-08 in the Alpine Mountain Rifle. Excited to shoot that new addition. What loads you shooting in the Creedmore?

 

[Deleted member 16014]

Great animals, nice work! Other rifle?

 

[shoots-straight]

Those are tanker bulls for anyone let alone 1st timers. General tag area?

 

[WHOCARES]

Very nice! Congrats. Nice looking area, too.

 

[MinnesotaHunter]

Awesome elk!! That alpine rifle is sweet!

I started hunting with a .260 Rem (pretty much the ballistic twin of the 6.5 Creed, went this way as I have yet to dive into handloading), and I love it. 1 bear so far and hopefully elk and deer in a week or so.

I have had really good accuracy (and really good anecdotal terminal performance on the bear) with the 130grn Accubond.

 

[bowhuntmontana]

Awesome. Those are some tremendous bulls!

 

[Festus]

1st bulls?!? Good day!
Congrats to all - looks like a great weekend!!!

 

[old man]

congratulations on some nice elk.

 

[noharleyyet]

Jeez, those bulls....I'm green whisper. Congrats on the good eats and nice shooting iron.

 

[Elkwhisper]

140 grain Amax did the job on my cow and on the smaller bull. I started with the 129gr SST but it didn't like those as much. Gonna get to work working up a load with the 140gr or 130gr Berger Hybrids. Cold bore shot on that little gun is always money, but the light contour heats up pretty fast and they walk a bit if you are concerned about shooting groups. Luckily I am only concerned about being "minute of mule deer" for the next few weeks. I shot this gun out to 600 the other day, and I can for sure get it done from there.

 

[Elkwhisper]

Great animals, nice work! Other rifle?

Other rifle is a 6.5 GAP from GA Precision....not exactly an apples to apples comparison to the Howa.

 

[1_pointer]

Very well done! Those are some great bulls!

 

[mtmander]

congrats, nice elk

 

[belly-deep]

Beautiful elk

 

[fishing4sanity]

140 grain Amax did the job on my cow and on the smaller bull.

I only saw three pics, didn't see a pic of a smaller bull. Congratulations to all involved, that certainly qualifies as a great hunt!

 

[JCS]

Congrats on the elk.

 

[backsmasher23]

Thumbs up!! Good work

 

[MT_elk]

Wow! Great looking bulls and a great cow. Congrats!