Went on a cow elk hunt this week and took my Borchardt 30/40 Improved that Curt Hardcastle built for me a few years back and also a 50/70 RB that Curt worked on this year.  When I got there the guide told me that the elk were hiding pretty good and I might have to shoot to 200 yards so I decided to hunt with the Krag which was sighted dead on at 200 yards with 200 grain Nosler Partitions.  Hunted all day and saw 8 elk but the only one that gave me a shot was a big 6x6 bull and I had a cow tag.  Just about sundown the guide decided to take me to a meadow to see if anything would come out just before dark.  While driving the ranch trail in a side by side we came around the corner and sure enough, there were two cows.  He stopped and I bailed out and set up my shooting sticks and proceeded to give here 200 grains behind the shoulder at just under 100 yards.  She staggered and went just a few yards and as I was closing the action on a second round she died.  We were able to drive right to her with the Polaris.  I had walked 3 miles on numerous short hunts and set in ambush in a dozen spots while the guide went through the brush to try to drive one by and wouldn't you know I would end up getting one next to the road!  I wish that I would have had the 50/70 but it was back at camp as it was too hard to haul a second rifle in the Polaris.  This is the first elk with the Borchardt after bagging several mule deer with it in the past.  Tom

MMMM cow elk. Some of the finest table fare that a person can have.
Better eating than any post rut bull and a much easier tag to draw here in Nevada.
Congrats!

Add a big Idaho baked potato with a little gravy, and corn on the cob.  Mmmmm...  Life doesn't get much better than that.

Rich

well done, I have one in a 45/70, good gun

Borchardt!  What fine rifles, stock or custom...

Rich