I don't know what the best Elk cartridge is, but I had an old timer out in Wisdom, Montana tell me a few years back what he thought were the worst. The 7MM Rem and 300 Win mag according to him were the absolute worst, because a lot of the guys shooting them thought they could just shoot in the general area of an Elk and it was supposed to fall dead. He said he and his buddies spent more time chasing Elk wounded by them, than any others. He used a Swift with 70 gr Speers IIRC.
Luke: Perfectly good cartridges get bad reputations in the hands of lousy shots......both the 300 WM and the 7RM are excellent elk cartridges,and their popularity is the reason they wind up in the hands of some people who can't shot straight.They both have a demonstrated ability to be one shot killers on any elk.....in the right hands.
