If you're hunting elk in grizzly country you can't go wrong with the .375 H&H. I carry one for elk handloaded with 250 grain Hornady's. Great accuracy, decent range, minimal recoil with this bullet weight and a bracketed powder charge, limited meat spoilage most of the time and you're ready for any eventuality.
From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information. � Edward Abbey
