270 wsm for elk
07-17-2007, 06:28 PM
#2
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cheyoming
Posts: 870
RE: 270 wsm for elk
You may want to search the "Big Game Hunting" posts for all the responses you can stand.
This subject, "is this gun good enough for elk", has been covered . . . and then some.
Let me give you a highlight version of what you will find;
Yes, it will kill elk. It has great ballistics for long range shooting (flat).
But keep this rule of thumb in mind, I'll swear (from personal experience), that the bigger the gun, the less you've got to chase it. I'll never forget the first year I went elk hunting and used the .270 (not the magnim) and never did find the elk. Found blood, tracks, went back the next day with a dog, still haven't found that elk.
The .300 Win Mag I shoot now, will drop him/her where they stand!
Another rule of thumb . . . the smaller the caliber, the closer you need to be to your target. It's just unconciebable that guys will spend the large amounts of money to come out here with pea shooters and go home frustrated because they didn't recover their animal. Why take the risk. Get a bigger gun.
This subject, "is this gun good enough for elk", has been covered . . . and then some.
Let me give you a highlight version of what you will find;
Yes, it will kill elk. It has great ballistics for long range shooting (flat).
But keep this rule of thumb in mind, I'll swear (from personal experience), that the bigger the gun, the less you've got to chase it. I'll never forget the first year I went elk hunting and used the .270 (not the magnim) and never did find the elk. Found blood, tracks, went back the next day with a dog, still haven't found that elk.
The .300 Win Mag I shoot now, will drop him/her where they stand!
Another rule of thumb . . . the smaller the caliber, the closer you need to be to your target. It's just unconciebable that guys will spend the large amounts of money to come out here with pea shooters and go home frustrated because they didn't recover their animal. Why take the risk. Get a bigger gun.
07-17-2007, 07:22 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Huntin' In Colorado
Posts: 2,910
RE: 270 wsm for elk
ORIGINAL: game4lunch
You may want to search the "Big Game Hunting" posts for all the responses you can stand.
This subject, "is this gun good enough for elk", has been covered . . . and then some.
Let me give you a highlight version of what you will find;
Yes, it will kill elk. It has great ballistics for long range shooting (flat).
But keep this rule of thumb in mind, I'll swear (from personal experience), that the bigger the gun, the less you've got to chase it. I'll never forget the first year I went elk hunting and used the .270 (not the magnim) and never did find the elk. Found blood, tracks, went back the next day with a dog, still haven't found that elk.
The .300 Win Mag I shoot now, will drop him/her where they stand!
Another rule of thumb . . . the smaller the caliber, the closer you need to be to your target. It's just unconciebable that guys will spend the large amounts of money to come out here with pea shooters and go home frustrated because they didn't recover their animal. Why take the risk. Get a bigger gun.
You may want to search the "Big Game Hunting" posts for all the responses you can stand.
This subject, "is this gun good enough for elk", has been covered . . . and then some.
Let me give you a highlight version of what you will find;
Yes, it will kill elk. It has great ballistics for long range shooting (flat).
But keep this rule of thumb in mind, I'll swear (from personal experience), that the bigger the gun, the less you've got to chase it. I'll never forget the first year I went elk hunting and used the .270 (not the magnim) and never did find the elk. Found blood, tracks, went back the next day with a dog, still haven't found that elk.
The .300 Win Mag I shoot now, will drop him/her where they stand!
Another rule of thumb . . . the smaller the caliber, the closer you need to be to your target. It's just unconciebable that guys will spend the large amounts of money to come out here with pea shooters and go home frustrated because they didn't recover their animal. Why take the risk. Get a bigger gun.
07-17-2007, 07:39 PM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location:
Posts: 318
RE: 270 wsm for elk
Use a 140gr. or 150gr. bullet and put it in the boiler room of an elk. I will be using my Remington 700xcr in 270wsm this year for deer and elk. I know of a retired Game Warden that uses a 6.5 Remington Mag. when he is in open terrain in Eastern,Or. His hunting partner that owns the ground he hunts on uses a 270wsm.Heused it to talk elk at 300yds.Shot Placement is the key along with bullet contruction.
07-17-2007, 08:29 PM
#5
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wall SD USA & Jamestown ND
Posts: 11,474
RE: 270 wsm for elk
Since about a jillion elk have been take with the 270 Winchester, the 270 WSM should also work very well. I believe in recent polls on this site that the 270 finished very high in the preferred calibers.
07-17-2007, 09:36 PM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: fort mcmurray alberta canada
Posts: 5,667
RE: 270 wsm for elk
270 wsm just about is a 7 mag isn't it? Looks the same on a ballistics chart.
And a 257wby is just about a 264win mag.
And a 6mm-284 is just about a 257wby mag.
At some point you have to set a limit.I choose to set mine at the 7mm remmag.
07-18-2007, 07:08 PM
#9
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: CENTERAL WYO
Posts: 32
RE: 270 wsm for elk
RTB,
if your a good shot you can kill elk all day long a 270 wsm i believe ithas a little more horsepower than the 270 rem. my buddy uses a 270 rem with 130 grn bullets and tags out every year. just make sure you use a bonded bullet.
if your a good shot you can kill elk all day long a 270 wsm i believe ithas a little more horsepower than the 270 rem. my buddy uses a 270 rem with 130 grn bullets and tags out every year. just make sure you use a bonded bullet.
