Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Honest elk rifle opinion.

If you aren’t using a .358 Norma are you even really taking this seriously…



Just kidding, mine has never even seen the elk woods, let alone an elk.

The reality is that the more I shoot a variety the more impressed I am with the .30-06.

In .30 cal I have a .30-06, .30 Gibbs and .300 WM. Inside 400 I would gladly grab the .30-06 everytime. My .300 is a tad heavy but accurate and reliable, my .30-06 is lighter and shoots a wide variety of bullets boringly well, my .30 Gibbs is light, accurate enough with a handful of good elk bullets and has a quirkiness that the other two vanilla chambers do not.

Which I grab would largely be determined by where I hunt and my mood for the day versus any real or perceived differences in performance.