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<blockquote data-quote="nakneker" data-source="post: 2821513" data-attributes="member: 92539">Hunted elk all my life and have 30+ bulls I&#039;ve sent to elk heaven. Bigger isn&#039;t always better imo and the 6.5 PRC is plenty. My first elk rifle was a Remington 700 270, 130 grain core-lokts were deadly on elk. I help a lot of youth hunters on big game hunts every year, if they are young and small I have 6.5x47 I use that has several big game kills on it, a community rifle for these young hunters. Never have had a wounded animal, shot selection is important. I also have a 6.5 PRC and 7 Saum they can use, both are suppressed so recoil is mitigated a bit which helps them concentrate on the shot without dealing with flinch. I use the Saum for most of my own big hunts, it and&nbsp; the 6.5 PRC do a good job. We use LR Accubonds and Bergers. Shot placement over big cartridges every time in my book, to each their own. We use some bigger cartridges, we being the group I hunt but most of us are using Saums the last few years. With the brass situation I&#039;d go 6.5 PRC today though.&nbsp;To the OP. Ive been working in Hawaii for the last seven years, spend a couple weeks out of every month on one island or another. Just finished a year and half in Molokai, the hunting was a pleasant treat. We were just shooting axis deer for the meat, delicious. Gonna head over to Lanai next year and get a decent Axis buck, crazy how many deer are on those two islands. I&#039;ve seen a couple black bucks on Molokai and got to run pigs a couple times too, lots of fun. Three years ago we did some wing shooting on the big island, I never knew you guys have the variety of game birds you do. It&#039;s a wing shooters paradise if you can find access to the land. I feel your pain on ammo, I always brought my own but reloading supplies and ammo are hard to get on some of those islands..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nakneker, post: 2821513, member: 92539"] Hunted elk all my life and have 30+ bulls I’ve sent to elk heaven. Bigger isn’t always better imo and the 6.5 PRC is plenty. My first elk rifle was a Remington 700 270, 130 grain core-lokts were deadly on elk. I help a lot of youth hunters on big game hunts every year, if they are young and small I have 6.5x47 I use that has several big game kills on it, a community rifle for these young hunters. Never have had a wounded animal, shot selection is important. I also have a 6.5 PRC and 7 Saum they can use, both are suppressed so recoil is mitigated a bit which helps them concentrate on the shot without dealing with flinch. I use the Saum for most of my own big hunts, it and the 6.5 PRC do a good job. We use LR Accubonds and Bergers. Shot placement over big cartridges every time in my book, to each their own. We use some bigger cartridges, we being the group I hunt but most of us are using Saums the last few years. With the brass situation I’d go 6.5 PRC today though. To the OP. Ive been working in Hawaii for the last seven years, spend a couple weeks out of every month on one island or another. Just finished a year and half in Molokai, the hunting was a pleasant treat. We were just shooting axis deer for the meat, delicious. Gonna head over to Lanai next year and get a decent Axis buck, crazy how many deer are on those two islands. I’ve seen a couple black bucks on Molokai and got to run pigs a couple times too, lots of fun. Three years ago we did some wing shooting on the big island, I never knew you guys have the variety of game birds you do. It’s a wing shooters paradise if you can find access to the land. I feel your pain on ammo, I always brought my own but reloading supplies and ammo are hard to get on some of those islands. . [/QUOTE]

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