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Well, we are home from the hills. My brother in law was starting to get disappointed in the bucks that we were seeing and decided that last night would be our last out in the wilds. We just were not seeing the kind of bucks that we should of, I tried to convince him that the migration for...

Wind is miserable but if you are in Wyoming you should be used to it Deer are starting to move some, a little bit more snow last night with tracks coming down. Watched a 3pt last night for about a hour

Seeing a lot of small bucks but no shooters B I L is starting to get discouraged. We know where the big ones are but a 79 year old just can't get there and back anymore, it's the pits to get old

For the best wind bucking bullets you need to find a long time skinny one. That is where the 6.5's shine. Those long skinny 140-145 grain bullets buck the wind real good. How about a 6.5-300 Weatherby for a new rifle?

Also the OP is hunting mule deer and not a deer that is going to roar, grunt, come into scrapes, or really be patterned very well. While mule deer will hang out in a area if they get bumped they will be out of the country not to come back until the following year.

I just use disposable lens cleaners that come in a foil pack. I have also used those lens pencils that have a brush and a cleaning solution in them but I find that they dry up every year and need to be replaced

A number of elk, a couple of mule deer, and 7 plains game animals in Africa. The ranges were from 90 yards out to 479 on my kudu. All have been complete pass troughs and one shot kills except for my gemsbok which I screwed up. My rifle shoots them sub moa out to 400 yards, that is as far...

It's surprising how good a nice long hot shower along with your own bed feels. Two more days of comfort and then we are off to unit 21 for a deer hunt. I may pick up a elk tag as a just in case scenario

I like the way this guy thinks, good excuse a new rifle. I love my 340 Weatherby and 225 grain Barnes TTSX bullets at 3000fps

I have no idea anymore of who I used for trip insurance when I headed over to Africa 4 years ago but I believe that the travel agent that I used was a agent to sell the insurance. Check out Travel Express on the web and see if they are offering it.

Depending on who you talk to the amount of energy to humanly kill a elk is in the 1000-1500 ft/lbs at the range that you are shooting them at. According to Hornady's site they are showing 1721 ft/lbs of energy at 400 yards and I have found that factory published figures to be quite a bit less...

You need to look at a ballistic chart and see what those bullets are doing at that range as far as velocity and energy.

Just don't over complicate it this close to a season. My closest shot on a elk with my loads was at 15 yards and it stopped on the far side skin, the elk ran 100 yards and I finished it with a second shot. The first shot was a kill shot but with elk you need to work on the idea that if they...

Home again, home again lickity dig. Well, after a couple more nights my brother in law decided to call off the elk hunt. Between being 79 and having to chase the elk where elk are at he decided that a hot shower, soft bed, and a warm house is better than what we were living in. So it was home...

Just because you didn't get a pass through is no reason to change ammo. Did the elk die? Did the bullet do it's job when it went through the internals of the elk? Lots to be looked at here. I have had complete pass through shots on elk at 300 yards and with the same ammo I have had it stop...

Thanks everyone for the complements. But now the saga continues. My brother in law got some stitches and after sitting around a couple of days decided that he wanted a go at it. So back to the Book Cliffs we went. We had found another herd of around 60 elk with a number of spikes in it...

I'll just throw this one back in on this thread since this is the mule deer success thread, I have already posted it in my own thread. It is hard to get a true trophy picture with someone in it when you are by yourself.

Berger makes a hunting bullet but I will stick with Barnes. You dont need a sub moa rifle or bullet to kill a deer or a elk, however all of my hunting loads are sub moa out to 600 yards with the Barnrs TTSX

Elk are hard animals to kill at times. I've have had them drop like a rock and I have seen them absorb a lot of bullets before they dropped all from the same rifle and loads all put into the right place. But I do have to agree on trying a different bullet other than Bergers

If you are in a area where snowshoes are required you need to hunt lower where you the animals are