I have a .270. I want something a little bigger.
Your .270 Win will kill elk as well as anything inside 500yds.
That may not be the answer you want to justify a new gun but spend the $$ on .270 Win ammo and cool optics and you will be way ahead.
You will also have more fun.
Notice, I said I [/i]want[i] something bigger!
Well many of us
want to offer good advice to a novice elk hunter.
Just Sayin.