EKM -

I too am getting tired of all the questions about elk hunting with .270's! I tried to stay out of it, but couldn't keep myself from posting in another thread just this evening. I didn't intend for it to lean to any one direction about which caliber for elk hunting, but rather along the lines of your views about people who have to ask all the time will probably never see an elk in their crosshairs!

So here it is as I posted in the other topic.

This is very interesting, and I find it funny to see how things have changed over the years. I have a book at home about Elk hunting. It was put out in the mid-80's or so. It was put out by the North American Hunting Club, though I don't remember the authors off hand, though I do recall Wayne Van Zwoll, and Chuck Adams. In there, it has the 6 most popular elk cartridges for that time period. They were the .270, 7mm Rem. Mag, .308 Winchester, .30-06, .300 Win Mag, and the .338 Win Mag. This was long before the Ultra Mags, or Lazz's cartridges came out. The Weatherby Cartridges were out, but were quite unpopular in the time. Now all everyone wants are these super magnums for elk. Everyone thinks that the 4 first cartridges listed (No, I don't consider the 7mm Rem. Mag a true magnum due to the fact that it is only slighty more powerful than the .30-06) are not capable of taking elk!! They had been responsible for thousands upon thousands of elk before people even started asking if they were good enough to take elk!!! No one had to ask, they just knew it would work!! And this was before a wide selection of super premium bullets became available (a good addition in my opinion!).