Got an Elk tag, which rifle to use?

I believe for this guy you need chest waders

Yeah. My willing suspension of disbelief is being tested.

very carefully

The OP ain't returned. I imagine he's a little embarrassed for letting his exaggerations run away so far.

This wasn't clear at post #7?

ROTFLMAO, I was gonna let that one slide, till he started knocking down deer at almost 3/4 mile.
With an old surplus WWII 303 Enfield and open sights.

The 7.62x54 is a much more capable round. If you shoot better groups with the Mosin-Nagant and bump up your load to 203 gr bullets. The mosin is the superior weapon. If you do a work up on a 30/06 vs 7.62x54 the 7.62x54 will be traveling around 150 fps slower than the 30/06 at any range.

I was kinda leanin for the enfield as I killed my first lion with it this year,( 500 yd shoot with irons)

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You killed a deer at 1250 yards with an Enfield and you are asking us what rifle to use?

Definitely an above average Enfield, and shooter, or something.

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Your saying you shot a lion at 500 yds?

And your longest shot on a deer is 1250 yds? With an old mil surp with iron sights ?

I don't think so ...

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Something is a little off here I agree! If I shot a Lion with a Milsurp iron sight rifle at 500 yds. I would not be asking the origional question, just saying.

I'm calling shenanigans. Someone call Officer Barbrady.

This is what I don't get about thehighroad. The moderators close a lot of the interesting threads before I get a chance to participate but then let the trolls run a muck in others. It is what it is I guess.

To the OP, have you seen any loss of accuracy in your .303 after shooting it roughly 800 times a month for 40 years? I'd expect a little wear after 384,000 rounds.

What's so hard to believe? I killed a bobcat at 400 yard's with my 10mm glock

Enfield.

The .303 British is a great round, and is a great big game cartridge.

Even if this is hooky-pooky of a thread, if I had an elk tag I'd probably take my Enfield or my .50 cal Black Powder rifle.

i think someone needs to practice their range estimation........just sayin...

.................. where d'he go?

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Pacing off 1250 yards.

Laws..they change them faster than you can abide by them..

Pacing off 1250 yards.

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If you earned "expert" in the Army, I`d say either will work ok.

The guy hasn't been back since I called him on his weird comment about Army shooting.
I figure he's gone for good.

Outlandish claims aside, everything that walks, crawls, or flies has been hunted with a .303. The 7.62 not so much, the Limeys used to get around a lot more than the Ruskys.

Of course a number of Brits got stomped on or eaten when their .303 turned out to not be quite enough gun for the job. I think it will handle an elk ok, at least it does in Canada.

I almost bought one of those 303 "jungle carbines" once.
When I was in high school a hardware store got in a crate of them, I think they were 20 or 25 bucks.
My Dad talked me out of it and told me if I wanted another rifle to save up a little more money and get something worthwhile.