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I’ve got a buddy who farms a couple of sections of alfalfa close to my house. He allows a couple of us to shoot elk on his property as they are pretty tough on his product.
It took several afternoons of waiting but the herd finally came onto the hay with legal shooting light. This is purely a population control/ meat hunt so the target was a tender cow or young bull.
The herd entered the hay field and were standing at about 500 yards. The wind was dead calm my 22” Steyr Scout in .308 Win was rock solid on its Integral bipod. All of the cows had young calves with them so I decided to shoot a young bull. A spike was standing broadside and my range finder hit him at 514 yards.
I watched the young bull drop in my scope as the 165 Gr Nosler Accubond did its work and exited behind him. It’s a good start to our season!
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