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<blockquote data-quote="436" data-source="post: 1661082" data-attributes="member: 16609"><p>Well, that's kinda a loaded question in some respects. I've killed a few Elk over the last 45 years and pretty much everything I used did a fine job as long as the POI was correct on my part. I as I think about calibers and killing large game one thing comes to mind; the first'..., the arguments between Elmer Keith and Jack O'Connor over the years, wow... did they have two different prospectives on caliber. Then I think about, I don't know, let's say the 6.5mm caliber in a 6.5x54mm Mannlicher-Schonauer which the famous African hunter W.D.M " Karamojo" Bell used to kill several hundred Elephants while using a 160gr bullet. Or... perhaps the video I saw once of an African Game Warden cropping a group of about 25 plus Elephants with a 7.62x51mm NATO in an FN FAL killing one after another and walking into them even standing on the ones shot so he had a shot at the others, getting a better sight pictures standing on the dead ones, I mean they dropped one after the other, no charges and no time to escape it was so fast... As I recall; I think he cropped about half that herd or more, I do recall him changing magazines at least once. So which one is a better Elephant rifle? well, let's make it easier, which one is a better Elk rifle? I think caliber like hunting; is a common sense and experience thing, guys that do it more than others know what works even if others don't agree. Like I was told when I was a young hunter, you can't make a bullet go fast enough or one hit hard enough to make you a good hunter, learn to use what you have. Just my thought on the question, good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="436, post: 1661082, member: 16609"] Well, that's kinda a loaded question in some respects. I've killed a few Elk over the last 45 years and pretty much everything I used did a fine job as long as the POI was correct on my part. I as I think about calibers and killing large game one thing comes to mind; the first'..., the arguments between Elmer Keith and Jack O'Connor over the years, wow... did they have two different prospectives on caliber. Then I think about, I don't know, let's say the 6.5mm caliber in a 6.5x54mm Mannlicher-Schonauer which the famous African hunter W.D.M " Karamojo" Bell used to kill several hundred Elephants while using a 160gr bullet. Or... perhaps the video I saw once of an African Game Warden cropping a group of about 25 plus Elephants with a 7.62x51mm NATO in an FN FAL killing one after another and walking into them even standing on the ones shot so he had a shot at the others, getting a better sight pictures standing on the dead ones, I mean they dropped one after the other, no charges and no time to escape it was so fast... As I recall; I think he cropped about half that herd or more, I do recall him changing magazines at least once. So which one is a better Elephant rifle? well, let's make it easier, which one is a better Elk rifle? I think caliber like hunting; is a common sense and experience thing, guys that do it more than others know what works even if others don't agree. Like I was told when I was a young hunter, you can't make a bullet go fast enough or one hit hard enough to make you a good hunter, learn to use what you have. Just my thought on the question, good luck. [/QUOTE]
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