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It's fookin snowing here, I want my new Sharps rifle dameit.    Gunner Keep that chit down there pard! They got us zeroed in at about 10-14 hope not. Yeah and I was giving you chit last week about UPS not being able to deliver your rifle, then I bought one and now it's snowing and they may not be able to deliver mine on time  . Karma IS a beach. Gunner
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I've not taken an elk but have taken a rather large red deer stag in Europe. That was also taken with the same 270 hand load. Not any real difference that I could tell. But the way I checked out the Triple U Ranch website and they recommend anything from 270 up. Triple U is in South Dakota just north of Pierre and is where the movie Dances With Wolves was filmed. I hunted my bison there back in the mid-90's. Really good folks there. At the time I hunted there they had the largest bison heard in the world. Ted Turner's herd is now larger.
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I used my 9.3x62 for mine and it worked nicely. That said, the 45-70 would be a natural and historically correct choice.
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I have known men I would rather shoot than the worst of dogs."
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I have only seen three American buffalo taken,
Heart-lung shots were used on all three. Only the bison taken with the .270 was killed with one shot, and it also went down quicker than the other two.
Hmmm, how bout that! I'm posting as I read thru. Have 7 pages left. Wonder how far TILL someone says .223?  
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