Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting 270 cal 150 grain OK for elk?

The absolute wrong concept is that a timber rifle is designed to "buck brush". A good timber rifle is short and easily penetrates the animal from bad angles, breaking bone, making wide wound channels and exiting. The trick to timber hunting is being able to shoot quickly, accurately and avoiding as much intervening shrubbery as possible. However if your main pursuit is shooting brush a 12 gauge loaded with buckshot will tear up as much brush as anything out there.