wingbar,

Another 2cents, if you are going to spend that kind of money, it would really be my suggestion that you look at the Nosler .451 - 300 grain Protected Point Partition bullet, or the .458 Nosler in an MMP sabot. With this bullet even if you hit a big bone and strip the lead from the first cavity the lead and the copper of the second cavity will carry the bullet in for a deeper penetration.

This is a target I fired several months ago using 350 grain .485 Hornady's Hollow Points and the MMP sabot. After this I went back to 300 grains because Nosler only makes a 300 grain .458. and they shoot just as well.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...loader/458.jpg

In Colorado can you use Sabots? I thought they were a non-sabot state.

Like I have said before I am really sold on the results of Nosler Partitions, goes way back to the 1960's when i was a kid and my grandpa made use Nosler's for a hunting load.

I wish I could tell you about the good results of this bullet from a ML into an elk, but I can't yet. I can tell that a 260 grain Nosler Partition HP through the chest cavity of whitetails makes the cavity a soup bowl. The hydrostatic schock is devastating.

Good luck in that hunt - hunting season has only been over 2 weeks now and I am ready to start again...