mtn-hunter,

Dunno who you are, and can't imagine how you KNOW a 150-grain .30-06 load won't kill an elk, since by your own admission you've never killed one. But I do know prairie_goat, and would guess from your posts so far that he knows a LOT more about rifles, shooting and hunting big game than you can ever pretend to.

“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck