If I had my druthers I'd use something like a case-colored octagonal-barrel 45/70... or 45/90... with iron sights (if that was a reasonable setup for the area). It would be fun to at least pretend, and all... :-)
If I were choosing something from my actual collection of rifles it'd be the .338 WM for sure...
I was off skiing one day last winter when a runaway bull showed up on our property. It had run away about a week earlier, and the owner was concerned it was going to hurt somebody or something, and the terrain and vegetation and size of the properties around ours (5-15 acres) made it about impossible for it to be caught, apparantly... anyway, he and a bud showed up with a .270 and killed it cleanly with one shot.
I wish I'd been here. He says he would have let me try out one of my elk loads on it... that would have been cool!
-jeff
