My Rem. 700 30.06 loves the Federal Premium 165-gr BTSP GK's - extremely accurate. I sighted it in at 200 yards and moving back to 100 yards it shoots small groups exactly 1.5 inches high. All of my deer have been shot under 150 yards - I just don't need that much horsepower for that short of a distance, so my under-construction 6.5x55 SE will be shooting 130-gr AccuBonds. I've never shot an elk so I can't comment there. IF I were to ever hunt 'out West' for mule deer/elk/pronghorn antelope/bighorn sheep I'd definitely change to 165-gr. Partitions.

This doe had a pencil-sized entrance wound and a fist-sized exit on the other side, she ran a short distance and some blood seeped down from the entrance wound:

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