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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 452259" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>Momentum is important on elk but you can take it to far, at a point you have to shoot them though the shoulders or with raking shots to be effective, if you shoot them though the lungs you will have to keep hammering except that you now have to hit a moving elk with a ballistic brick. Perfect example is I shot a 45-70 in a bolt gun that I would load to just under a 458. I shot from 520gr blunt hard bullets, to softer blunt 405 a 350gr round nose and 300gr hollow points. Hands down, no contest the 300gr fast hollow point was more devastating on elk, we're talking ruin there life kinda stuff. I loved shooting elk with that load, but the big heavy slow bullets would take a couple unless I crushed a lot of bone and ruined a lot of meat and often having to shoot them in the head with a pistol to finish them. With the fast 300gr hollow points I never shot an elk twice and never had on take a step, even running there front legs would stop at the shot and they would skid into home plate. I got tired of the recoil and it was poor on deer, and down graded and I don't feel I've left anything on the table.</p><p></p><p>I've seen guys trying to compare elk to cape buffalo which is down right ridiculous and will cost guys more lost elk than anything because of shooting though them with nothing more than a hole and they run way and die, or you fail to break both front shoulders and they hobble of packing one while you talk about how you hammered that elk with you elk cannon. I know cause I've done it and had to do some serious tracking to recover elk. Picking the right bullet is more important than the chambering IMO!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 452259, member: 13632"] Momentum is important on elk but you can take it to far, at a point you have to shoot them though the shoulders or with raking shots to be effective, if you shoot them though the lungs you will have to keep hammering except that you now have to hit a moving elk with a ballistic brick. Perfect example is I shot a 45-70 in a bolt gun that I would load to just under a 458. I shot from 520gr blunt hard bullets, to softer blunt 405 a 350gr round nose and 300gr hollow points. Hands down, no contest the 300gr fast hollow point was more devastating on elk, we're talking ruin there life kinda stuff. I loved shooting elk with that load, but the big heavy slow bullets would take a couple unless I crushed a lot of bone and ruined a lot of meat and often having to shoot them in the head with a pistol to finish them. With the fast 300gr hollow points I never shot an elk twice and never had on take a step, even running there front legs would stop at the shot and they would skid into home plate. I got tired of the recoil and it was poor on deer, and down graded and I don't feel I've left anything on the table. I've seen guys trying to compare elk to cape buffalo which is down right ridiculous and will cost guys more lost elk than anything because of shooting though them with nothing more than a hole and they run way and die, or you fail to break both front shoulders and they hobble of packing one while you talk about how you hammered that elk with you elk cannon. I know cause I've done it and had to do some serious tracking to recover elk. Picking the right bullet is more important than the chambering IMO!! [/QUOTE]
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