Best gun for hunting elk

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The best elk rifle that I have ever encoutered is the .340 Weatherby magnum. I have taken a number of elk with it and all of them were one shot kills and the fact that all but one dropped in their tracks leads me to believe that the Weatherby is the best elk cartridge out there. My gun is a Mark V sporter without a muzzle brake or anything but it is fine to shoot when hunting, its just a little intense when practiceing. Weatherby has many recoil reducing options for the Mark V if you are recoil shy.