Originally Posted by
nchawkeye
Guess I need to confess....I've never killed an elk either... ��
If we are going to restrict conversations to only those that have experience then it's going to be mighty quiet around here...
I would feel very confident going after elk with the Barnes I recommended based on how well my gun shoots it, what I have seen it done in the field and what I've heard of it doing from other hunters..
That is the point. If you get second hand or third hand info from people that have never even seen an elk what is that worth? If someone was looking for a bullet for a Mule Deer. Someone shooting large Northern whitetails would have some merit.
Someone shooting doe whitetails, and recommending an elk bullet is a wannabe. I don't want to hear regurgitated third hand info.
Real accuracy info does some good but accuracy is not the only info that is important. Bull Elk can be enormous. The light bullets that some guys shoot for deer are not the bullets that I would want.
Maybe I should go on a Africa forum and recommend bullets there. I could tell them I read about bullets and that gives me all the experience I need. I could also tell them since my 243 is an accurate rifle it would be great for buffalo.
Ron