JJ, I've read this post twice through now and still fail to see where these fellas using frangible bullets and their apparent desire for explosive impact has a thing to do with the 7mm magnum cartridge. Hell there is a veritable host of ultramagnum class rounds out today in various calibers that used with the right (or rather wrong) bullet will provide explosions to make the cult of the 7 mag green with envy. If these guys were loading 140 TSXs and hitting the elk in the right place they STILL wouldn't be recovering bullets - but they also wouldn't be firing twice or tracking wounded elk...
As an aside I've only seen two elk shot 5 or more times and both were with 30-06s, one with the old original 150 grain silvertips and one with the 150 grain Hornady.
