I do like smash-mouth cartridges but I also like light rifles; therein lies a conundrum requiring some compromise.

Though I've taken relatively few elk (eleven or twelve), they've mostly been between four and five hundred yards.

It'll be a 300 B at 8.5 lbs all up for me this fall or a 6.25 lb 284 all up at back-up; or vice-versa. I like 'em both.