ORIGINAL: titleist_03
I'm placing my order for my graduation present and am wonderng what caliber gun will work for all 4 animals? I hope to someday be able to hunt all four and would love to do it with one gun. I'm looking at the Remington model 700's. I'm think about going with the .300 ultra mag or WSM. I don't think the .270 will quite cut it onmoose.
Your thinking about moose is a little off. Actually, moose are easier to kill than elk, but they almost never drop on the spot, no matter what you shoot them with! A 150-grain Nosler Partition bullet in a .270 Win. at 2900 FPS MV will take any game in North America, if you aim it at the correct spot.
However, for the list of game you are talking about, I would prefer a 7mm Rem. Mag, a .280 Rem., or a .30/'06. In that order. In the 7mm's, I'd use a 175 grain Nosler Partition bullet; in the '06, I'd use a 200-grain Nosler Partition.....