225 NAB or SST, 2600/2650. Only slayed elk or seen em slayed a half dozen times with each. Both knocked ‘em f’n flat, EVERY time. Cows and bulls. It’s actually too much gun. A 260 or 6.5 creed will yield the same end result... a dead elk. Jumping thirty thousanths in bore diameter from .308 to .338, and backwards in SD, to shoot a weight already commonly available in the original diameter, at a similar velocity, is borderline retarded, at best.
Viable bullets in 338s start at 225, and go UP from there.
Yea, a 185 TTSX at over 3000 FPS just wouldn’t work at all. Rolling eyes at stupid comments.
I’ve seen 6.5mm 140s at 2600-2750 dump enough elk to fill a 10 yard dump truck.
See the original post, he asked about 225s, and got a bunch of answers for bullet weights he can already run in his plain old ‘06.
There are plenty of .308 diameter slugs from 200-220 grains that when launched from a good old ‘06 will run any elk on the planet from stem to stern, and I’d never rebore a barrel 0.030” to run bullets of a weight easily run in an ‘06.. It’s paying to take a step backwards. 225 338s @ 2600-2650 flatten elk in their tracks. It’s a sight to see every ounce of dust knocked off a bull at 60 yards and go straight down. An ‘06 with 180s or 200s or a 260 or creed with 140s all woulda yielded the same result. A dead elk.
