Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting recommended projectile for 7mm-08 on elk???

I'm new to the 7MM-08; but I bought a Compact Ruger American for Elk this year -- used a 7MM Mag for several decades.

I was going to try the 140 grain Accu-Bond but it's considerably longer than the Partition and case space is limited. I'm using a max load of Big Game and it's quite compressed even with the Partition seated as far out as possible.

I had to have the Ruger re-barrelled right before Elk season and have only run 20 rounds of 140 Partitions thru the new barrel. Groups are good. Velocity with the 18 inch barrel is 2780 fps.

I've killed pretty much every big game animal that I've shot with a Partition including Elk, White Tail, Mule Deer, Antelope, Sheep and Caribou (most with a 6mm-06). I don't like mono bullets in slower calibers and don't see ultra high BC as an advantage with this cartridge.