I took both of these animals in the first 45 minutes of hunting with my Christensen Arms .270 WSM.  What an incredible rifle!  And the skunk, that's another story...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

On the 2nd morning of the hunt at about 8:00am, I shot this brute free handed as he stepped through some trees and stopped to check us out.  His body was about as big an elk body as I have ever seen.  And my Christensen Arms 300 Short Mag laid him down with 1 shot in the shoulder...