I returned home from Vietnam in the summer of 1970, and was then stationed in Ft Sill, OK. I used to spend a lot of evenings on the rifle range there (the Army gave me free ammo!!), and one evening there were two guys at the bench next to me that were shooting a .375 H&H.
I asked them why they were shooting such a cannon, and they said they had borrowed it from a friend as one of them had drawn an elk tag at the nearby Wichita Wildlife Refuge, and he was told that he needed at least a .375 H&H to kill an elk.
Back then I had only killed one bull elk, and I
knew you didn't need that large a rifle to kill an elk, but I didn't say anything to them.
Now, 40 some years and 30 some elk later, I
still know you don't need a .375 H&H to kill an elk.
Use your .270 Wby and put a 150 gr Partition or TSX in his vitals, and take a lot of pictures.
