Goodness....alllllll this talk about how great 6.5's and 7mm's are for elk when for 95 years many deemed the 270 marginal. Seems I was right about the 270 all along, it's just fine for elk.
You have a 6.5, get something of larger caliber and it doesn't have to be a magnum. I wouldn't buy an '06 but that's me. Nothing wrong with it but there is, conservatively, approximately 200 cartridges just as good and will do anything and everything the '06 will do. I won't bother mentioning what rifles because our tastes are light years apart.
