A buddy and I were having a few cold ones after work today. We got to talkin about hunting elk in a few years as he has a contact in CO and asked if I’d be interested. Neither on of us had ever shot an elk. I was telling him about the new M700 I was looking at and said I was thinking about a .270 since it’s been so long since I’ve had one. He said I “need” a mag if we head west.
Now I know damn well I don’t need a mag and was showing him some ballistics that pretty much meant nothing since he has a 7mag for deer that’s what he’d use for elk too.
I have plenty of others I could use, but not a .270 or 7mag.
For those of you that have used them on elk, which one?
I started elk hunting as a kid with a .308 and it was enough gun to get it done in. Later in life, I used a .30-06 because I won it at a banquet and it was my favorite gun. Now that times have changed things a bit and I have plenty of guns to choose from I can tell you that I carried a Tikka T3 in 7mm Rem mag this last season. Mt back up rifle has been a custom savage that is chambered in 7.82 Lazzeroni Patriot, but this last year I took a Tikka T3 Ultralight in .270 as my back up gun. So I guess I took them both with me on the last outing.
