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<blockquote data-quote="338 bruce" data-source="post: 452319" data-attributes="member: 12214"><p>I have been hunting elk now for 27 years. I started hunting with my 30-06, my first elk was standing broadside at 200 yds. I put the crosshairs on the shoulder and fired and it just stood there I fired again and it started to walk I fired again and now it was running I fired again and now I have an empty gun and four apparent misses. I reloaded as the elk ran behind a tree. I found the elk dead behind the tree with two bullet holes thru both front shoulders and all four bullets hitting. I was useing a 165 gn balistic tip at 3000 fps with the damage to the front shoulders as was to be expected. The next year I had a 338 wm and when a 338 bullet hits an elk you can tell. I have killed or been part of over fifty elk kills thou mostly cows and I can tell you bullet diameter does matter. Impact velocity is important only so far as to make the bullet expand. Any energy that hits the dirt on the other side of the animal wasnt used inside to kill. If you dont like the recoil then load down or shoot slower. Even my daughters 338 federal 200 gn speer at 2500 fps gets an elks attention upon impact. I killed an elk this year with my 375 tejas, 260 accubond behind the shoulder with no exit and it dropped in its tracks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="338 bruce, post: 452319, member: 12214"] I have been hunting elk now for 27 years. I started hunting with my 30-06, my first elk was standing broadside at 200 yds. I put the crosshairs on the shoulder and fired and it just stood there I fired again and it started to walk I fired again and now it was running I fired again and now I have an empty gun and four apparent misses. I reloaded as the elk ran behind a tree. I found the elk dead behind the tree with two bullet holes thru both front shoulders and all four bullets hitting. I was useing a 165 gn balistic tip at 3000 fps with the damage to the front shoulders as was to be expected. The next year I had a 338 wm and when a 338 bullet hits an elk you can tell. I have killed or been part of over fifty elk kills thou mostly cows and I can tell you bullet diameter does matter. Impact velocity is important only so far as to make the bullet expand. Any energy that hits the dirt on the other side of the animal wasnt used inside to kill. If you dont like the recoil then load down or shoot slower. Even my daughters 338 federal 200 gn speer at 2500 fps gets an elks attention upon impact. I killed an elk this year with my 375 tejas, 260 accubond behind the shoulder with no exit and it dropped in its tracks. [/QUOTE]
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