I had a friend carry a 7mm-08 for caribou. The rifle was so light we had to keep opening the rifle case just to make sure the thing was in there. He used 140gr Ballistic Tips to drop a couple bulls on the spot with shoulder shots. He said one did come apart pretty good after hitting the front point of a shoulder, but it came apart in the lungs so he didn't care. Dead critter!
As a side note, he lost most everything on those animals except the antlers. As he was flying from Canada to New York, his jet was suddenly diverted to Wisconsin. He had to try and haul that meat via a rented pickup from Green Bay to Flagstaff, Arizona since he was not allowed to fly anywhere. He hated to lose all that meat and hide, but that paled in comparison considering everything else that went on that September 11 day.
Man should have bought a chest freezer just small enough to fit in that pickup,,,, make sure you can plug it in and run the freezer some every few hours,,, all the jiggling may have killed the compressor or it may have not, helped haul a huge load of frozen elk from Ut to TN like that,,, drive 4-5 hours and take a hour break
