Yea guys spend tens of thousands of dollars on gear and travel to hunts to use a cheap bullet.....no
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I’m usually a 300 wsm guy. 212 ELDXs worked very well on 4 elk in 2023. No bang flops. I used a 6.5 creed this year with 147 ELDMs on a cow elk, a muley Buck, and a whitetail doe. Total tracking distance was exactly 0 yards combined. Mainly due to shooting either high shoulder or neck shots. All the shots last year with the WSM were heart lung shots, which I would not expect drops with that placement
Everything I've ever shot with my 6.5 creed or 25-06 has died no problem.
115 Partition out of the 25-06 has killed plenty of elk.
6.5 I pretty much only shoot the 147eld-m. Again, it's killed every deer and elk I've shot it at.
115 Partition out of the 25-06 has killed plenty of elk.
6.5 I pretty much only shoot the 147eld-m. Again, it's killed every deer and elk I've shot it at.
Rhetorical statements are lost on you. It's ok, autism seems to be common around here.
Exactly.
To go along with my personal selection, I always have a 357 and 9mm in the truck. If we're hunting in bear country (and there's plenty in Montana) I will gamble my life on 21 rounds of 124grn Hydra shocks before I pick up the 357 that only holds 6...
If you have a close encounter it will be at pistol range, and the rifle is just as well used as a club. The number of people I've seen miss a finishing shot on a wounded animal at 10 yards with a rifle is actually about 90%. And that was with a motionless animal that was spined and couldn't move.
Old thread that someone else revived, but tossing my opinion on the OP's original question...
The .280 Ackley, 7mm RemMag, or 7mm PRC with 175 Elites will take down anything in N. America, and most of what's on the planet, with the right shot placement and at proper distances.
As always, shot placement trumps what ever caliber you choose.
Shot my bull elk this year with a 6.5cm and 140eldm.
Not sure I would have gone smaller but he stumbled and fell 3 yards from where he was shot.
Outside of external ballistics, I don't see a reason to go bigger.
Shot my bull elk this year with a 6.5cm and 140eldm.
Not sure I would have gone smaller but he stumbled and fell 3 yards from where he was shot.
Outside of external ballistics, I don't see a reason to go bigger.
If I could only have one for four legged creatures, it'd be the .30-06 all day long. Small deer to big bears, I've done it all, as has my family for many years. Granted, if I were intentionally targeting the big guys and had choices, I'd prefer my .338winmag or a .45-70, depending on terrain and distances involved.
But the OP asked or "the one". .06 it is.
But the OP asked or "the one". .06 it is.
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