best big game round

[nickaballison]

i personally think 7mm Rem Mag is hard to beat. I used to hunt with .30-06 but the drop comparison was amazin. 7mag is much flatter to much longer distances. But all in all accuracy is the key. I have heard of people using 30-30 for elk and loving it.

[jgang]

i personally think 7mm Rem Mag is hard to beat. I used to hunt with .30-06 but the drop comparison was amazin. 7mag is much flatter to much longer distances.

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I, too, went to the 7Mag from the .30-06. Nothing wrong with the latter, but the 7Mag has it beat in most competetive categories I consider important. Unless I'm going after Yukon moose or big bears, there's no reason to use anything else. I'll step up to the venerable .375 Holland & Holland for the bullwinkles and bears, just for good measure. Good excuse to pull the pre-64 Winny out of the safe anyway. Of course, variety being the spice of life, I killed my elk in 2011 using a short-barreled, open-sighted Marlin .45-70. Hell of a big-game stopper there! The "Hammer of Thor" would be an understatement.