sbhooper
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OP original question was for bear which I cannot comment on.
However;
If you’re going for elk, I’d say use a rifle that you’re comfortable shooting and can carry the mail out to 400 yards. Granted my first ever elk last October was a cow, but we got on a small herd and could get no closer than where we shot from at 370 yards.
7mm08 with a 140 E-tip, one bullet through the lungs slightly quartering away. After the shot she walked about 30 yards, then tipped over and rolled down the ridge.
I have a feeling if I would have had a bull tag and shot the nice 6 point bull in that group, the result would have been the same.
It would have been the same, and that bullet would have done very well on real close shot, also. That is the difference, between it and some of the standard bullets.