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

I've been using either a 300 H&H Improved (300 Weatherby) and a 338 Win Mag for many years for elk and have no complaints at all. Even for relatively long shots I find I like the 338 WM to be very capable with the 225 grain pills. Since I find myself hunting areas where we are hunting canyons and large meadows on public land I decided to build something to make shooting long a bit more predictable so I built a 26 Nosler and I will be using that for the foreseeable future loaded with 140 Accubonds at around 3400 fps. First year out with it I shot a spike at about 125 yards and went through both shoulder blades, a rib on each side, and nicked the bottom of the spine so he dropped at the spot. Hopefully I'll get to test it more in the next couple years...