Standby for "Elk shoulders are like armour" and "Magnums give me a better margin for error" ...
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Originally Posted by Outcast
When you say blow up, you are saying what? The bullet failed to penetrate the vitals and kill? I agree that they will be more violent in expansion but not fail to do the job. Gives me a lot more range with minimal expansion velocities required with cartridges that are easy on the shoulder.
I’ve been hunting elk a lot of years and have subscribed in the past to magnums and premiums. There was a 10 year span in there where I thought I needed my 338 to do this right. Nosler partitions, accubonds and ttsx. All killed elk but the last 5 years or so I’ve gone back to lighter cartridges right down to the 243 and guess what, they die the same.
Whatever makes you confident out there is important but I can’t subscribe to the fudd lore anymore given what I’ve seen and have been shown by others in ghe last few years.
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