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I just came back from an elk hunting trip where a 6x6 bull, a big cow and a 4x4 buck mule deer were hanging. They were all shot with a .25-06 and 117g Hornady bullets. By a 12 year old girl from Michigan...

Your .280 will be fine. I hunted elk for 20 years with a 7mm RM using 160g bullets at .280 Rem velocities. No lost game, no long tracking jobs - most were DRT or went just a few steps. One made it about 40 yards.

Choose a good bullet (Grand Slam, Partition, TTSX, Norht Fork, A-Frame, etc.), learn your load and carry a skinning knife.