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<blockquote data-quote="436" data-source="post: 2496494" data-attributes="member: 16609"><p>I was reading a story in May 2022 Guns magazine, on page 46 by Wayne Van Zwoll where "he" outlined levers rifle(s) and their normal calibers used for and on big-game. Ok... Now, I know of and have seen more than one hunter take Elk with a .30-30 WCF over my many years and they thought nothing of it. So, is .30-30 WCF an Elk rifle? No, wait! maybe, well... not by today's standards anyway we have much better cartridges and ammo nowadays, but could it kill Elk? sure... it's been doing it long before I was born, and that's some time I'm talking about... Here's, Wayne who used a model 336 Marlin in .32 Special (pretty much a .30-30 Win) at 130 yards to take this rather nice bull with one shot I believe. So, what really is an Elk rifle, I'm talking big-game, not a dangerous game rifle. Have we now gotten to the point where "distance" and not "caliber" really define an Elk rifle or any rifle for that matter we hunt with? Just my thoughts, Cheers.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]355924[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="436, post: 2496494, member: 16609"] I was reading a story in May 2022 Guns magazine, on page 46 by Wayne Van Zwoll where "he" outlined levers rifle(s) and their normal calibers used for and on big-game. Ok... Now, I know of and have seen more than one hunter take Elk with a .30-30 WCF over my many years and they thought nothing of it. So, is .30-30 WCF an Elk rifle? No, wait! maybe, well... not by today's standards anyway we have much better cartridges and ammo nowadays, but could it kill Elk? sure... it's been doing it long before I was born, and that's some time I'm talking about... Here's, Wayne who used a model 336 Marlin in .32 Special (pretty much a .30-30 Win) at 130 yards to take this rather nice bull with one shot I believe. So, what really is an Elk rifle, I'm talking big-game, not a dangerous game rifle. Have we now gotten to the point where "distance" and not "caliber" really define an Elk rifle or any rifle for that matter we hunt with? Just my thoughts, Cheers. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Elk 1.jpg"]355924[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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