What you can (possible to) do. What amount of lost game is due to too small of cartridge. I'm of the opinion I'd like a larger cartridge myself. But everyone to their own.
I know you can kill a grizzly with a 9mm pistol, and you can kill a polar bear with a 22 long rifle, and I'm sure people can kill an elk with a 357. I know a guy that killed an elk with a 25-35.
But I've seen elk shot with a much larger cartridge in the heart and the elk went a long way, before tipping over. It's your elk license do what you want.
