Minimum Elk Caliber. what do you think it is.

[Lasiocarpa]

I would bet money that more elk have been gut shot and gotten away with .300s than .243s…. I know I personally have been there (not me shooting) for far more rodeos with magnums than with smaller calibers. Most people (not all obviously) don’t shoot them enough to be proficient.

And being able to spot your own shot and what happens after it is invaluable.

If you can shoot the magnums well, more power to you. But from my experience it’s not the small caliber guys that are wounding game…

 

[mtmuley]

But from my experience it’s not the small caliber guys that are wounding game…

Neither do bowhunters. mtmuley

 

[Lasiocarpa]

Neither do bowhunters. mtmuley

That’s a whole different can of worms. The difference in lethality and forgiveness between a broadhead and a 223 with a good bullet is way more than the difference between that 223 and a 300.

 

[mtmuley]

That’s a whole different can of worms. The difference in lethality and forgiveness between a broadhead and a 223 with a good bullet is way more than the difference between that 223 and a 300.

Yeah. Guess so. mtmuley

 

[The_Coloradoboy]

There was a thread on MM years ago where a guy claimed a poor shot with a Berger would anchor a critter anyway. Hilarious. mtmuley

That’s not entirely false… I’ve personally and personally witnessed large mature bulls get hit back with Berger bullets and with the way the bullet performs enough energy and shrapnel ends up in the vitals of the chest cavity. These were with cartridges ranging from a 6.5mm to a 30 cal.

Where as with a bonded bullet in this circumstances it would of been a pure through and through gut shot.

A Berger bullet at low impact velocities is absolutely devastating, where as at high velocity impacts it can get squirrely, where it would be the opposite with let’s say a Barnes ttsx; high velocity impacts are muy bueno where as low impact velocity impacts are poppy cah-ca