270Win is light for elk - might work but it is light. Big jobs work better with big tools and elk are a big job! Kind of like changing a semi-truck tire with a 1/2" drive socket set. It might work, but the whole affair will go much better and more reliably with 3/4" drive set of tools.

An under equipped mechanic who only has a 1/2" drive set (like a hunter who only has a 270) might argue, brag even, that 1/2" drive is all you need if you are any good. Whereas someone who is well equipped and experienced and has both 1/2 and 3/4" won't even listen to the nonsense - he knows which is better regardless what one can "get by" with and reaches for the big tools for the big job.

.30-'06 minimum, 338's better, more is okay if you can handle it. Don't talk about recoil, if you can handle a 12ga. pump with 2oz turkey or waterfowl loads in it, then these calibers are NO problem. I see high school kids shooting waterfowl with those loads all the time, therefore anyone tough enough to hunt elk should have no problem. Elk are NOT deer, the demands are NOT the same, 3 times the body weight and twice as hard to kill.

Edited by - Eagle338 on 12/25/2002 22:08:41