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The key to successfully taking a game animal once in range is shooting skill.

Burn about 5,000 rounds of .22LR ammo practicing on paper and steel this spring and summer. Shoot from field positions. Use a scope like the one on your 6.5.

Mix that with varmint hunting with the 6.5. Y'all still got groundhogs up there (coyotes have gotten most of ours)? Shoot at least 100 rounds of 6.5 at vermin.

You'll know your rifle and your own skills and the outcome will be sure when you get in position to take an elk. I love the idea of that big 160, BTW.

Though if you shot one with a 125 Partition or a 140 TSX, the elk would die swearing it was a .270 WSM that kilt him.