Originally Posted by
harter66
if you were hunting elk w/a 223 ? Yes.1 word about elk w/45-70 I doubt it.
Are you saying that a .45-70 wouldn't take an elk? I'm confused now. If your answer is yes then what do you think took all those elk in the old days? .45-70 Gov. rounds out of single shot rifles were used to take buffalo at hundreds of yards.
Maybe I read you post wrong, did I?