Brad- I appreciate your information along with others on this subject of 7mm-08 for use on elk. After reading through this information I think I will just keep my shots closer to a 400 yard max. I have shot several elk around the 300 yard mark but all of those fell to a 7mm mag , 300 win mag or 338 win mag. Most have been around 100 yd. All of those rifles have gone down the road because I just didn’t plan on doing much elk hunting with a rifle in the future. For the last few years it has been archery.
My load for my 7mm-08 is 47 gr of Big Game. Like I said before it shows no pressure signs but the chronograph shows 2960 fps.
