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Ideal Cartridge for Elk?
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<blockquote data-quote="FIGJAM" data-source="post: 1552765" data-attributes="member: 71039"><p>You are right, that is exactly what a magnum does as long as you use high bc bullets - it extends your range. What happens is, someone from back east wants to come out west for an elk hunt and reads something like this and buys a 338 rum for the hunt and can't shoot it for crap. They would be better off shooting their whitetail gun. I think most people would agree - when you take a shot over 500 yards its because you want to, not because you had to. It isn't hard to sneak within 500 yards of game, even out west. At 500 and 600 yards there are a lot of non magnum rounds that will retain 1000 lbs of energy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FIGJAM, post: 1552765, member: 71039"] You are right, that is exactly what a magnum does as long as you use high bc bullets - it extends your range. What happens is, someone from back east wants to come out west for an elk hunt and reads something like this and buys a 338 rum for the hunt and can’t shoot it for crap. They would be better off shooting their whitetail gun. I think most people would agree - when you take a shot over 500 yards its because you want to, not because you had to. It isn’t hard to sneak within 500 yards of game, even out west. At 500 and 600 yards there are a lot of non magnum rounds that will retain 1000 lbs of energy. [/QUOTE]
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