What shooting position were you in for your last shot at an elk?

[Indian Summer]

A rifled slug gun with a scope shooting good slugs can kill out to 300 easily.


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What! Here’s a trajectory chart for you. Dropped 12 inches in the last 25 yards and dropping faster by the yard.

 

[Timberline001]

That’s for a .44 mag pistol. Here’s the actual verified data for my 12 gauge rifled barrel with Hornady 300 gr SSTs at 6000 feet elevation.
300 gr bullet with a .2 G1 BC
Barrel: 2010 FPS
100y: +1.6” 1702 FPS 1900lbs energy
200y: -7.3”. 1431 FPS 1365
300y: -33”. 1230 FPS 997lbs


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[hlunsford22]

Seated resting on bipod. 315 yds.

 

[tdot]

Seated, arms over my knees. A position I've practiced out to 500 yards and it's my favourite fast/stable postion to use (shot a coastal blacktail @ 420 yards in that position, bang flop). But this time I was sitting to stay concealed while calling. The bull walked into the clearing and shot him at 25 yards

 

[Reddirtrifleman]

Between kneeling and prone, upper body and rifle laying on a knee-high rock. Short shot across a gully.

 

[hereinaz]

I just always use my tripod and it is all I practice. It is far too versatile and as steady as prone in all the shots from the side of a mountain.

There isn't a really a lot of reasons to practice anything other than tripod for supported shots.

Only other thing I practice is unsupported field positions and off my pack.

Bipod is for limited range work and load development.

 

[Bluumoon]

Figured I'd cast my vote since I filled my first tag. Sitting shooting off a downed tree at 190 yards or so.

 

[justin davis]

Standing.. 40 yards one arrow bull was down in seconds

 

[Vandy321]

Sitting with rifle across top frame of my pack... woobie under elbow made for an extremely solid hold, 525 yds w/a 7# rifle

 

[PAhunter58]

Ditto on the fallen log. Was rock steady. Clean missed one the day before, standing with sticks, while under duress. Never again. If there's a tree standing or fallen, I'm using it. Using sticks during a quick fluid encounter is only asking for problems. If I'm sitting with sticks and have time to set up properly, maybe.

 

[fatlander]

Standing, 35 yards


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[TonySkyline]

On a tripod kneeling in some brush. 100 yards

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[Ca_Mike]

All of my elk except for one have been sitting or kneeling with my rifle on a set of shooting sticks. I’m very comfortable with that setup out to 450.

 

[Clarktar]

Run, bellyflop, shoot. Otherwise known as "prone"

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[Tahoe1305]

I had a weird position I have never been in before.

Hill I was on was so steep down and I was shooting up a ridge across the valley I couldn’t get comfy prone.

ended up using my bag to rest rifle on and then had to lay down on my back to get the shot. It was silly stable to my surprise and worked.

 

[woods89]

Off hand at about 50 yds. It happened fast and I was still wearing my backpack. I've shot variations of @Formidilosus drill some over the last year some (not as much as I probably should have) and I'm kind of glad I did.....

 

[.204smokechaser]

Kneeling with the gun resting on a fresh log deck. 89 yard shot.

 

[ilikefunkymusic]

So I'm on my third year hunting elk.
2019 - I missed at 440y laying prone. Spent a lot of the off season working on my shooting.
2020 - 2 elk: cow at 33 yards siting, rifle resting on one knee & then a bull at 40 yards, standing off hand
Had a miss on a late season cow at 520 yards trying the tripod for long range for the 1st time.
Did a ton of work on the long range efforts in the off season.
2021 - 2 elk: bull at 140 yards, standing, rifle rested on a pine branch & then a cow at 650 yards, sitting, off the outdoorsman's tripod.

 

[Loggerdude]

Anything to put them down

 

[35WhelenAI]

Underwood shooting sticks, nothing finer that I have used.