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personal experience please...
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120 TSX killed my Buddy's big cow @120 yards, took out a rib in, both lungs and a rib going out. Walked in a small circle fell over dead.
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IIRC, John Haviland and his family have tipped over nearly 20 elk with a 7-08.
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My two sons both shoot 7-mm08 Remington 700's. Both killed their first elk with one shot each, both using Remington 140 core lockt factory loads. A bull and a calf. Both chest shots. Bull was shot at just under 200 yds, and fell over at the bullet impact. I have never seen that quick of an elk kill with any other cartridge, for an animal not hit in the spine. But I think it was a fluke. The calf was more typical, hit in about the same place, a double lung shot allowed it to go about 20 yards or so and that was it. I think the 7mm08 is about the smallest fully adequate elk cartridge. ( along with the 6.5s) I prefer my .35 whelen, but not by much.
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That's an easy one:
An Elk is sorta like a really big Deer, and a 7-08 is a .308 case necked down to take .284 dia. bullets.
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Seriously, a 7-08 will work fine on an Elk. Use a good bullet and place it correctly, and you will be having Elk steaks for dinner.
That all said, would still rather use a .375.
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We have taken 2 cows with the 7-08 & 120 TSX and had no problems, double lung em and they don't know what cal you are using. RustyL
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My hunting partner has taken several ELK with his 7mm-08 and it works perfect at reasonable ranges, he switch to 300 WSM only for longer shots.
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I have loaded up 140 grain nosler partitions for my wife to try this year for both antelope and elk. So far the loads are grouping 3/4" at 100 yds. Can't wait to see what they do in the field this fall!!!
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Greenhorn, I am impressed with how the bullet opened up, how much weight did it retain?
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Thats how the X bullets normally open, at least the few I've recovered from game, and the ones in the impact at home on the range.
Generally its 100% retention or very close unless loosing a petal.
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The 7-08 would not be my first choice for a once in a lifetime, high dollar, trophy bull hunt, especially where a 400 yard shot might be needed. But we have shot enough cows with them (and with the .270 Win, its ballistic twin) to have no doubts about the capability.
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I've only hunted elk with a 7-08, never killed one with it. 150-gn Partition. I will say this. It made me wonder, while I was doing it, WHY I was doing it!  I mean I never doubted that it'd kill an elk (how could it NOT, if I did my part) but damn those are big "deer", and tenacious sometimes. Elk camps are rife with stories of elk absorbing lead and making the hunter's life a living hell trying to sort out the rodeo. I've personally talking with a young guy a few miles back in the elk woods, tracking a spike elk that he'd shot with his .308, with a strip of lung in his pocket about 6" long that he'd gotten from a log that the elk jumped over... never did recover that elk, and he had snow to track it in! They can be that tough. Just for the sake of sleeping well at night I use a bigger rifle for elk. I know, in the hands of a good hunter yadda yadda yadda. Maybe I'm just not a good hunter.
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Yesterday I was handling a 7mm-08 Ruger Compact. Very nice rifle and I foun myself asking why not?
For many years (1982-2002) I hunted elk exclusively with a 7mm Rem Mag bolt gun (and one day each year with a Browning B92 carbine in 44 Mag that Dad had given me). It wasn't until I got a chrono in 2001 that I discovered my loads were running only 100fps faster than a 7mm-08. Whoopee.
I expect every elk/deer/antelope I shot with the 7mm RM (or anything else, for that matter) would have fallen quite easily to a 7mm-08.
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I will say this. It made me wonder, while I was doing it, WHY I was doing it! I mean I never doubted that it'd kill an elk (how could it NOT, if I did my part) but damn those are big "deer", and tenacious sometimes. I had a similar fear or apprehension once when hunting red deer. I carried my .275 rigby handloaded with 140 XBT's at 2940fps and though ti a little light. One the other hutners started coming in my bang flops taken with their .270's and then I found out a couple used factory ammo, I was ok. Needles to say teh .275 was adequate. complete penetration on a shoulder shot and it colapsed to the ground. These days, I would use it on just about anything. 7/08, same thing really, just looks funny compared to the real thing. JW
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I've only hunted elk with a 7-08, never killed one with it. 150-gn Partition. I will say this. It made me wonder, while I was doing it, WHY I was doing it! I mean I never doubted that it'd kill an elk (how could it NOT, if I did my part) but damn those are big "deer", and tenacious sometimes. Elk camps are rife with stories of elk absorbing lead and making the hunter's life a living hell trying to sort out the rodeo. I've personally talking with a young guy a few miles back in the elk woods, tracking a spike elk that he'd shot with his .308, with a strip of lung in his pocket about 6" long that he'd gotten from a log that the elk jumped over... never did recover that elk, and he had snow to track it in! They can be that tough. Just for the sake of sleeping well at night I use a bigger rifle for elk. I know, in the hands of a good hunter yadda yadda yadda. Maybe I'm just not a good hunter. I'd take a 140gr .284 cup & core through the lungs over ANYTHING else in the azz....YMMV
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