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<blockquote data-quote="COBrad" data-source="post: 1551124" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p>Son I have guided, and for a decade outfitted, elk hunts here in western Colorado for 41 years. If I haven't shot it my self I've seen it used. No doubt the magnums are killing machines... in the hands of folks who can handle them, and most of the hunters that came through the camps I've worked out of couldn't. For those that could shoot them the big thing they offered over the '06 and 270 class of cartridges was range. Outside of LRH, IME the average hunter can't even use the full potential of a .308. The elk killingest rifle I ever owned was a .300 Jarrett shooting 200 gr bullets at 3028 fps. These class of guns are awesomely powerful, but out of the 59 elk I've shot myself, only a half dozen or so were beyond 200 yards and only 2 of those beyond 300. I shot one a few years ago at 1098 just because I could. bigngreen hit it in his post; they took off because of the hype, not because folks suddenly couldn't kill elk anymore with the older rounds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="COBrad, post: 1551124, member: 1940"] Son I have guided, and for a decade outfitted, elk hunts here in western Colorado for 41 years. If I haven't shot it my self I've seen it used. No doubt the magnums are killing machines... in the hands of folks who can handle them, and most of the hunters that came through the camps I've worked out of couldn't. For those that could shoot them the big thing they offered over the '06 and 270 class of cartridges was range. Outside of LRH, IME the average hunter can't even use the full potential of a .308. The elk killingest rifle I ever owned was a .300 Jarrett shooting 200 gr bullets at 3028 fps. These class of guns are awesomely powerful, but out of the 59 elk I've shot myself, only a half dozen or so were beyond 200 yards and only 2 of those beyond 300. I shot one a few years ago at 1098 just because I could. bigngreen hit it in his post; they took off because of the hype, not because folks suddenly couldn't kill elk anymore with the older rounds. [/QUOTE]
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