Originally Posted by George_De_Vries_3rd

Well, there you go. You don’t need to buy an elk rifle. Choose the 35 for a primary and the 308 as a back-up.
You do want to have a back-up — stuff happens.

^This right there is what I was about to write ^
But if you have an itch for a new elk rifle tikka T3x In 7mag, 300 win mag. ...Or the 338 if you must have thumper
New limb saver, talley or dnz rings. And scope of your choice. I am 2-10 or 3-12 fan .
My main elk gun is tikka 06 with 3.5-10 CDS dial for 168TTSX and I would take any elk at 400.
Only reason I’m suggesting the magnums is you have 308 and 35W and there might be some over lap with an 06.

Last edited by Dre; 04/13/20.

All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.