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<blockquote data-quote="COBigJohn" data-source="post: 1266893" data-attributes="member: 99586"><p>Being that you have several fire sticks.....pick 2-3 calibers that will work for long distance elk (up to 500 yards or so) and then choose the gun you shoot the best, with a great long range optic. If I were you, with your arsenal.....I would lean toward either the 30'06 or the 7mm RM. If you shoot the 7RM very well, I would load up some 175's and go find a 6x6.</p><p></p><p>But at the end of the day, choose a gun you shoot very, very well. A well placed .243 with a great hunting bullet is better than a wounded animal shot with an 8mm. There are a lot of old-timers, youth and women here in Colorado that hunt elk with a .243 with great success. It isn't the ideal caliber, but if one can shoot it 0.5 MOA, as opposed to shooting a big magnum at 4 MOA.......well yeah.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="COBigJohn, post: 1266893, member: 99586"] Being that you have several fire sticks.....pick 2-3 calibers that will work for long distance elk (up to 500 yards or so) and then choose the gun you shoot the best, with a great long range optic. If I were you, with your arsenal.....I would lean toward either the 30'06 or the 7mm RM. If you shoot the 7RM very well, I would load up some 175's and go find a 6x6. But at the end of the day, choose a gun you shoot very, very well. A well placed .243 with a great hunting bullet is better than a wounded animal shot with an 8mm. There are a lot of old-timers, youth and women here in Colorado that hunt elk with a .243 with great success. It isn't the ideal caliber, but if one can shoot it 0.5 MOA, as opposed to shooting a big magnum at 4 MOA.......well yeah. [/QUOTE]
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