Back in 1970, my last assignment in the Army was at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. One evening I was at the base rifle range and the two guys at the bench next to me were sighting in what sounded like a cannon. When I talked to them it turned out one of them had drawn an elk tag in the Wichita Mountains near Ft Sill. They had been told that elk were hard to kill and that they should use at least a .375 H&H, which they had borrowed and were shooting it for the first time.
At that time I had only killed one elk (in my home state of Colorado) with a borrowed .30-40 Krag. I knew that my friends back home had killed elk for years with their .270's and .30-06's so I thought that .375 H&H wasn't needed for elk, so I just wished them good luck. Now, 50+ years later and having put 30+ more elk in my freezer, I still don't think that a .375 H&H is needed for elk.
