7mm remington magnum
The 7mm bullet has some excellent ballistic coeeficients, so she flies like a dream.
The 7mm remington mag has about as much recoil as most moderate shooters can take, for that reason I always place it above the 300 winmag which I think is a bit too much for most folks. The 7mm remington mag has a definate advantage over the 30-06 if you want to stretch the range just a bit, and for elk, you do.
Of course, the 30-06 is a bit more of a generalist, and if you handload you can wring a lot of extra performance out of the 30-06, so that is a very strong 2nd choice.
I'd skip the 308, with a heavy bullet the smaller case capacity of the 308 becomes a liability. While the 308 can match 95-99% of the performance of the 30-06 with standard weight bullets, heavier bullets I'd say that factory 308 is 90% as effective as factory 30-06 and 80% as effective as hot handloads with heavies in 30-06
The 7mm bullet has some excellent ballistic coeeficients, so she flies like a dream.
The 7mm remington mag has about as much recoil as most moderate shooters can take, for that reason I always place it above the 300 winmag which I think is a bit too much for most folks. The 7mm remington mag has a definate advantage over the 30-06 if you want to stretch the range just a bit, and for elk, you do.
Of course, the 30-06 is a bit more of a generalist, and if you handload you can wring a lot of extra performance out of the 30-06, so that is a very strong 2nd choice.
I'd skip the 308, with a heavy bullet the smaller case capacity of the 308 becomes a liability. While the 308 can match 95-99% of the performance of the 30-06 with standard weight bullets, heavier bullets I'd say that factory 308 is 90% as effective as factory 30-06 and 80% as effective as hot handloads with heavies in 30-06