Before we get carried away with the notion that Finn was a "little rifle" user, it would be well to remember that he did some of his own elk hunting here with a 300 Win Mag and a 338 Win Mag as well...dig hard enough through his writings and one will find this.
I am not one to dump on the various bigger rounds for elk hunting,as I used them successfully myself for years without encountering the boogeymen of flinching my shots into the next county.
As my 270 shooting rancher friend is fond of saying (he's killed 50-60 elk,including some very big bulls) the 270 kills them but the 300 Win Mag just flattens them..
I guess i would have to agree.
