Thank you James! Pretty well sums it up .Shoot as far away as you are competant and not at bad angles.Any gun is a good gun if you shoot straight.The elk in my deep freeze didn't read the ballistic charts either and a 25-06 put him to sleep.No qualms about smacking moose with this as well.With lungs the size of a beachball and staying away from the shoulder blade dead is dead.Killed a black bear with same load this spring with chest to tail lengthways penetration.At what point of the animal,s death did the25-06 fail? Harold