I've been hunting elk with a .308 for over 30 years without losing a single animal. If you're suggesting my .308 is inadequate then you obviously have not used this cartridge enough to admire its accurasy and knock down power. Nor can you make a viable agruement against historical facts.
My Dad (age 81) killed a stack of Wyoming elk with his 300 Savage rifle. Yet he never felt under gunned either.
Just because Jim Carmichael and Craig Boddington claim 338 MAG is minimum for elk does not make it so. Neither journalist has ever lived in Wyoming. FACT: Their hunts are guided every step of the way and paid for by big ad sponsers in the magazines they write for.
Any animal shot twice with the .308 has more area of wound channel damage than one shot with a 338 MAG. Do the math or study wound channels if you dis-believe me.
I'm not angry with you, simply stating the facts. Good elk hunting to you.
Buck
