Eastern Montana has one little district that you can use your general elk tag in because there isn’t enough public land to actually do a draw for. Today while deer hunting some state land I got lucky and stumbled on to a bull at 52 yards. First shot with the 156 grain berger out of 6.5-06 hit him behind the shoulder. He turned quartering away and I hit him again and he flipped over backwards dead. Made it about 10 yards total from first shot. Berger made soup out of the lungs and peppered the offside rib cage. When I was removing rib meat the lungs were pouring through the rib holes. If he had slid 10 yards the other direction he would have ended up in a sink hole I couldn’t see the bottom in.
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