Elk are big animals with thick hide, dense muscle and heavy bones.

I would not trust any 25 caliber jacketed bullet to get through the hide and even so much as a rib of an elk without breaking up.

If shooting at deer is like shooting at 7/16' plywood then shooting at elk is like shooting at cinder blocks.

Taking your 25 caliber deer rifle with deer loads in it and expecting it to humainly and constistantly take elk is pretty niave. The fact that somebody else has done it before doesn't make it a great idea.

So many better choices.

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