Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Can this Elk rifle be beat?

I've had it bad for a .340 Weatherby ever since Ross Seyfried wrote about in G&A in the 80's. I read that article till the ink faded from the pages.

At the tender age of 51, I moved out west and had Kelly Mcmillian build me an Outdoorsman on his G30 action with a Schiender barrel with a Vais break in an Edge stock as a retirement present for myself. I could have had any caliber for my elk rifle and I chose a .338 Win Mag. Recoil at 51 just wasn't as fun as it was when I was 30ish. The older I got, the faster, and harder the big Weatherby's seem to come back into my shoulder. Among my legion of sins, I am a notorious stock crawler, and having a Swaro Z6i buried into my forehead is no longer my idea of a good time.

As I turn 60, the .375 H&H and the 338 WM is about where I want to be recoil wise for game the size of elk. Athough this 6.5 PRC has aroused my interest.