Like on "Road House" opinions vary!To say you need a .30 caliber or larger for Elk,is non-sense.To say a 30-06 won't work on Brown Bears is also non-sense.All in the eyes of the beholder.Some say the .338 is the best Elk Medicine around and others say different.My neighbor has shot more Elk than most with a 25-06 and my 84 year old friend whom was on my first Elk hunt in the Selway-Bitteroots of Ideeho has used nothing but a .270 and 30-06 to take probably 50-60 Elk.He does pack in every year to good country but as he told me last year..It is getting hard to get back on the horse. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I have seen Elk absorb 30-06 ammo but wrong bullet and weight as well as the 7MM and others and the old .300 Savage/30-30/25-35/32 special/35 remington put them down in one shot.....

For many years I was a .270 shooter period..It just worked with 130 Nosler Partitions put inthe right spot.I now own a .300 Win Mag and it has a small edge on the .270 if the bullet goes in where it is supposed to.The .375/.338 does not kill any better than a .300 or .30-06 with the same shot placement and a "QUALITY" bullet.

You certainly do not want to get into Sectional Density as the .308 has better SD than the .338 and .375 even the 300 grain .338 is just below the 250 .308 in SD for SD believers.

SHOT PLACEMENT is everything along with a well constructed bullet.The 22-250/.243 all red lettered(JJ's Red Line <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) deer bullets have killed alot of Elk in Idaho.
I used the 45-70 with 300 grain barnes last year for 90% penetration on a Bull Elk.It penetrated 90% of his body and "Exited" with instant death.....

Line up ten Gun Writers/Guides/Packers and the locals that live there and you will get umpteen answers is to what is best.In the lower 48 nothing over .308 is needed and the .308 works just fine in Alaska infact the 30-06 is the #1 choice with the .300 Win Mag second....
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The old timers that fed there families off of lessor calibers would be rolling in there graves if they heard this non-sense on calibers and bullets it takes to kill larger than Deer animals...To many magazines and articles on which wiz-bang is best, rather than the people that do it for necessity not money.

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