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There is no free lunch with cartridges. Serious elk cartridges are going to have some recoil unless the rifle is heavy. When I say serious elk cartridges, I mean cartridges that can reliably kill elk when quartering away at ethical hunting ranges.
If one is willing to pass on shots at less than ideal angles and limit the range somewhat, a 140gr bullet from a deer rifle round can be used successfully.
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A lot of people hunt deer with a 30-06. My step dads father killed 7 or 8 grizzly bear with that caliber.
If it can take a moose (6.5) then its doing to take an Elk.
I think there has been a great deal of over gunned in the US.
Granted sometimes its a matter of you have one gun, my dad did.
But the myth thing you need a 338/375 to kill an elk at 400 yards? Hmmm.
Its the bullet and the velocity that dictates how effective its going to be.