As an afterthought.....If you are not absolutely sure you only would consider a bolt gun?!? You might want to look at Browning' s Md 81 in a lever action. It uses a rotary bolt lock up allowing it to use the same cartridges as a bolt gun. It is very light, accurate, and available in several good intermediate range Elk calibers. It can be had in both the .308 Winchester and has recently been reintroduced in .358 Winchester....a great intermediate range Elk cartridge. But a very real consideration is that in order to get the most out of the .358 Winchester you must be a reloader. I believe that there is currently only one factory load for the .358 Win., (a 200gr. Silvertip or Power Point?!?). For the .358 Winchester to be a really great Elk cartridge it needs something on the order of a Nosler Partition in 225 grains. So in the final analysis....if you don' t reload, (nor are willing to start), stick to a more common cartridge!

At any rate...good luck again!