Posted by jokers on March 03, 2011 at 05:37:13 from (67.249.143.47):
In Reply to: BUYING A NEW RIFLE posted by Detmurds on March 02, 2011 at 21:32:58:
You didn't say whether your elks hunts will be guided or on your own. From what several of my friends who spend all their spare cash on guided hunts say, you won't even be allowed in elk camp without ATLEAST a 300 magnum of some flavor with a 338 preferred, Crazy huh!
That being said, some of the guys on the Bear Tooth Bullets forum who live in elk country say that a 308 or even a 270 with care in bullet placement and keeping your range under a few hundred yards is plenty of gun.
The '06 isn't my first choice personally but it probably is the best all around choice. There is an interesting story in a recent American Hunter about the 30-06 being used in Africa on all sorts of game at a variety of yardages, I believe the final tally was something like 12 one shot kills out of 14 animals taken. Of course this was also with some new super whamodyne Federal ammo that blurs the line between the ought 6 and the lesser 300 magnums.
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