Wouldn't it just be safer for all of these caliber arguments to simply say, "It is not what you shoot, but how you shoot it"?

While I've taken an elk with the 7-08 in a Remington XP-100, I don't consider it an "elk cartridge." Stuff can happen at anytime on a hunt and as a pessimist, I'd rather error on the side of too much as on too little. Also, alot of the elk hunting I do is in grizzly country. The 7-08 is definitely NOT a grizzly cartridge.

I have a safe full of larger caliber rifles I'd take elk hunting over a 7-08.

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Originally posted by Duckear:
Even if you had a safe full of 'traditional' elk calibers, would you take a 7mm-08 for elk?

For sure!A friend successfully hunted Colorado Elk with a 6mm Ruger # 1,he'd hit running elk in the neck or head.

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Wouldn't it just be safer for all of these caliber arguments to simply say, "It is not what you shoot, but how you shoot it"?

That should pretty wll be the last post on this subject.

I know it won't be, but it should be.