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What Your Favortie Long Range Elk Gun??
What you mean by "long range"?? IF I were to select a cartridge for truly LONG RANGE elk shooting, (
over 600 yards!! it would be: (top three)
1. 50 BMG
2. .338/378 Weatherby
3. .338 Lapua Magnum
The 270 WSM's factory figures may show more enrgy than the .338 Win. mag. at 500 yards. But such figues can be misleading! A good 250-grain .338 bullet is going to do more damage than one weighing half that much, and having half the frontal area of the .338. For example, big-bore black powder riflesshow relatively low kinetic energy levels, but they kill much better than smallbores that show much higher KE figures. This is because the 'foot-pounds KE formula uses the square of the velocity-a .220 Swift, for exmaple, shows a pretty impressive KE level, but if the bullet blows up on impact, it wil not kill big animals..........