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    Temp for leaving elk carcass overnight

    Damn, we keep crossing posts. Adrenaline is a great thing! I take adrenaline back to camp, have a good supper or whatever hour of the morning since I probably didn't make it back to camp in time. Have a beer or two, and call it a day. You know what though? We've got animals on the ground so...
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    Temp for leaving elk carcass overnight

    I edited just as you posted. And I mean this in jest, but also in some rational questioning form. Why would you come back in the middle of the night? The only thing that's going to be gone is the guts, from the experience of my buddies who haven't pissed a circle around their elk.
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    Temp for leaving elk carcass overnight

    Interesting strategy to leave a headlamp on at the kill site, that is worth the cost of a set of AA batteries. Flashing is absolutely an alert for any predator type animal. Learn something everyday. That makes some very good sense. However, truly, why the hell would you come back in the middle...
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    Temp for leaving elk carcass overnight

    I was saying that tongue-in-cheek, but with a headlamp I do not feel I am underprepared for taking an elk apart for as long as it takes after dark. And again, Fire will keep a person warm well into the night. However with it all said and done, I think the cases of an animal spoiling are...
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    Temp for leaving elk carcass overnight

    That's called a headlamp...
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    Temp for leaving elk carcass overnight

    An animal rigored / frozen overnight is no fun to quarter and cut off any extra meat , much less skin the next day and then have to quarter it.
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    Temp for leaving elk carcass overnight

    I agree, it's the responsibility of a hunter to get the meat off given the conditions at hand so there is not waste. With headlamps and an extra set of batteries, I have worked into more than a few well below freezing nights, well past dark, getting a hide off and breaking the hip sockets and...
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    Supplied Drop Camp Tipping Etiquette?

    90 mile pack out is a heck of a long ways! I appreciate what you're saying, wasn't trying to come across like I did. The distances you just shared I must have missed in the earlier post. I'd be doing the same thing as you all are for that hunt.
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    Supplied Drop Camp Tipping Etiquette?

    Drop camps and the like are for folks that can't do DIY. It isn't hard to DIY in the west with a tent on your back, to each his own. That was my first experience in colorado, went with a group of guys and they told me what I needed to bring and so I brought it. Learned on the fly. If you...
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    30-30 Copper ammo (Barnes) penciled through Whitetail Buck this morning...thoughts?

    There are no flies in the ointment when it comes to Barnes bullets. If you use them you know. I'd trust my life with them as well in a dead-on charge situation of any animal vs a frangible Lead Core bullet. I'll fill the freezer monotonously regularly with them... With "failures" of frangible...
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    .308 for Elk

    If the expectation is a bang flop after one shot and you're hunting elk, if you hunt them enough that's a fools folly. Literally. Folks eliminate good bullets for typical elk hunting ranges by engaging in internet banter. We hear more about the one(s) that didn't work when there are hundreds...
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    .308 for Elk

    Thanks for the follow-up, I understand your context now. Absolutely agree.
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    .308 for Elk

    165 Ballistic tip is a great choice for .308 speeds and BC gives great downrange internal and external ballistics. I'm not aware of one animal or another being more robust with respect to continuing to live when heart and lungs are destroyed. In that sense elk are no more able to cling to life...
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    .308 for Elk

    Push a 130 TTSX to 3200 fps from any .308 and it carries 1 fps over 2200 out to 500 yards at 8,000 FT elevation which is not a-typical elk hunting territory. 2,200 FPS for a TTSX in any caliber has dire terminal performance consequences. Call on a higher BC frangible bullet with lower expansion...
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    .308 for Elk

    I haven't used the .308 cartridge specifically but every 30 caliber I've used which is to include the 30-06 and 300 Win mag, have been equally effective on elk. The .308 Winchester is a fantastic choice within the range the projectile has required expansion characteristics. Bullet weight is a...
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