Just bought the wife a Remintog 700 guide gun in a 7mm-08, it has a short skiny 22' barrel and doesn't weigh very much. When I bough it the guy behind the counter was asking what all she was going to be hunting with it and when I metioned elk he said that it was to small. I assured him that it would do anything if not more than the 25-06 he was trying to get me to buy. So he kept going off about how if I used the biggest bullet available it MIGHT work. To wich I resonded that the 7mm-08 handloaded will push a 150gr Partition just as fast as a factory .270 win and people kill everything with that every year. You just have to be more carefull. well he wet off again on some rant about how elk get wounded all the time from guns like this, I was about to jump over the counter and strangle him when the wife stepped up and told him that the people making those shots obviously didn't wait for the right shot and/or didn't practice enough and that shut him up.
So on to my question . . . is a 140 gr AB goig to be enough bullet for elk or should I stick wih the 150 Partition (a 150 AB would be nice)? I want something that is going to be a one load for everythig type of bullet for deer, elk, speed goats, black bears, and anything else that size.
Thanks
So on to my question . . . is a 140 gr AB goig to be enough bullet for elk or should I stick wih the 150 Partition (a 150 AB would be nice)? I want something that is going to be a one load for everythig type of bullet for deer, elk, speed goats, black bears, and anything else that size.
Thanks