If it were me, I' d take the 7mm-08, as long as the gun itself can handle full power loads and it handles heavier bullets well. I wouldn' t feel right sending a typical 130gr .270 bullet out there after a fat elk, maybe on a decent elk, but " enough-gunned" for some elk is " under-gunned" for others, just having these choices, I' d go with the heavy hitter as opposed to the smaller/faster round (even though I' m not a big fan of 7mm' s on the norm, I do like the 7mm-08) (it' s strange to call a 7mm of any sort a heavy hitter compared to a smaller/faster round, but that' s the way it' s presenting itself today? Kind of backwards of normal huh?)