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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 818919" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>One element a lot of guys miss in this kind of comparison is the terrain each guy hunts elk in. I shoot smaller cals for the most part, anything under a 1000 yards and my 270 WSM has proven very slick and making an elk loose it's will to live and I've killed a good number of elk with smaller cals, BUT my terrain makes this much easier than where a guy like sp6x6 is hunting. If I shoot an elk through the lungs it's DOA and may have moved a few feet to a hundred yards or so but for me that means they moved down hill and in my terrain that is always the direction I can bring them out with ease but that northern MT stuff if an animal staggers that far it can get into a place that will make you think twice about life and there is no access for bringing them out the backside so over the top they come, you want an elk to eat snow right where you catch him!! </p><p>I do have my big 338's but they are for long range and simply for launching 300 gr bullets at distance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 818919, member: 13632"] One element a lot of guys miss in this kind of comparison is the terrain each guy hunts elk in. I shoot smaller cals for the most part, anything under a 1000 yards and my 270 WSM has proven very slick and making an elk loose it's will to live and I've killed a good number of elk with smaller cals, BUT my terrain makes this much easier than where a guy like sp6x6 is hunting. If I shoot an elk through the lungs it's DOA and may have moved a few feet to a hundred yards or so but for me that means they moved down hill and in my terrain that is always the direction I can bring them out with ease but that northern MT stuff if an animal staggers that far it can get into a place that will make you think twice about life and there is no access for bringing them out the backside so over the top they come, you want an elk to eat snow right where you catch him!! I do have my big 338's but they are for long range and simply for launching 300 gr bullets at distance. [/QUOTE]
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