If you are planning on dropping a spooked bull in his tracks - you may be disappointed. If you are planning to find a dead elk in 1/2 mile or less from where you shot it in the vitals you should be good to go particularly if you shoot to stop them until you do
HUH!?! That will drop an elk just as fast as anything else and no elk will go 1/2 mile after being shot through the lungs with a 165 Partition. A gut shot may go that far with anything.
It is funny how people will praise a 300 with the same bullet and because an '06 bullet may stop under the opposite hide instead of blowing through every time, it somehow is inferior. If you are hunting elk at reasonable ranges (400 yards or less), that bullet/rifle combo will do all that you need.
