Originally Posted by Filaman
Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
Idaho allows any centerfire for any big game animal. That's just saying its legal, not that it's smart.

These threads about how small of a caliber you can use always tell only half of it. They leave out the part about "I got an elk with my 22 Hornet and I only wounded 2 before 1 went down."


Yes! My question about such threads is WHY! Yeah It'll kill it, IF everything goes right. But what's alwsays left out here is what if? What if you hit just a little off of aim and hit a big thick bone? ? Wouldn't it be better to use a bigger, heavier, higher sectional density bullet that will better drill through that unplanned for bone? Instead of hitting that boane and have that bullet come apart on that bone and create a big nasty surface would that won't cause immediate death and allow that animal to linger for a few deays in pain before dying and not be found in time before spoiling the meat?


This thread was started 100% tongue in cheek for entertainment, but I must say I have seen that same nasty surface wound happen with more accepted rounds/bullets. The animals died despite the rodeo and tracking job so hey......all is well because I used a more accepted caliber right? I suspect this thread will get entertaining, like the others. I am excited!

For disclosure, the smallest round I have used on elk was a 6mm Rem with 100 speer BTSP. It wasn't a big elk but it worked perfectly fine.