Alright folks, welcome to the backcountry heading podcast. I'm going to throw a scenario out

you. Imagine that you're in thick, thick woods hunting elk in the Rocky Mountains, and that you've got six bulls bugling at you within

70 yards.

Three different haremes have collided right in front of you.

And the bulls are going nuts.

They're chasing each other back and forth in a frenzy,

trying to divide their cows back up,

maintain the ones they had,

so you have to pick out the biggest bull and try and thread a shot into them

through the in there on the fact that the outfitter had had three different bulls lost already

this season that had been shot with a 6.5 PRC cartridge and you're carrying a 6.5 PRC. Now shooting

dynamically moving elk in thick woods is not an ideal situation for a cartridge that some might consider

underpowered and that without correct bullet choice absolutely is underpowered for big-bodied old bull elk.

Now thankfully I was using a prototype Barnes bullet load ammunition loaded in the Barnes factory there and it had a tough deep penetrating bullet had the right bullet for this situation.

When I finally picked out what I believed was the biggest bull in the herd,

he was standing between about 60 and 70 yards, quartered to me fairly strongly, and I could just see his

shoulder through a narrow gap in the trees. I put my crossh hairs right on the point of the shoulder and

squeeze the trigger. Man elk went everywhere like flushing coil. Bulls bugled

even more frenzy than they had been a minute before because their cows

are now running and scattering.

And as the woods quieted around us, and those bugles faded into the distance. We listened. We

hadn't been able to spot a what appeared to be a wounded bull running away from that woods.

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