Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game What's the BEST Brush-Busting cartridge for elk & moose you would you use ?

I, too, would pass on these shots in hopes that they might stop and give a better target.

I grew up with the notion that big slow bullets would buck brush well. My eyes were opened when I read an article in a gun mag one time (probably in the 70's or 80's) where a guy set up targets beyond some brush and tried to quantify the amount of deflection of various bullets/cartridges. NONE of the cartridges fared well. There is NO SUCH THING as a "brush bucking" cartridge. The ones that did the best were long, cylindrical bullets. Can't recall for sure now but I think a 220 grain 30 cal or a 250 grain 338 bullet won the competition.