(Especially Bowman who guided legions of elk hunters and watched the 300 Weatherby clients wound more elk than those shooting 270's,concluded the average clown could not manage 300 Weatherby recoil, so invented a cartridge called the 7mm Remington Magnum that gave more poop and shot flatter than the 270 or 30/06, recoiled less than the 300's and killed elk at long range with impunity; that his clients COULD shoot,and field tested it with his clients on everything from elk and moose to grizzly for several years before Remington brought it out. No City Boy, he, who did all this up in Cody. But he could never know as much as the Country Boys on the CF,now, could he?) whistle
They killed a LOT of elk. Les Bowman wrote that during one season in the late 1950's his outfit packed 90 horse loads of elk out of the WY backcountry.
If I were to build an elk specific rifle it would most likely be a 7MM Remington or 7MM Mashburn set up for 160-175 grain bullets.
