My buddy has his Grama's old Elk rifle, a Savage 99 in 250-3000. We use bigger guns.
I've mentioned this before but my M99R 250 Savage came out of Wyoming where it's previous owner used it to feed his family. Quite a few elk fell to that rifle over the years, ol' Pete said he liked to get in close and shoot them in the neck with 117s. A partial box of those 117 Sierras came with the rifle. I loaded them up and found that at 100 yards this old 1-14" twist barrel keyholed them. No wonder he liked to get close. Lot's of those old timers weren't real gun savvy, but they managed to feed their families.
