My 38-56 RB spoke again as I took a large cow elk at 205 yards using a 270 Grain Hornady Round Nose.  I hit her through the front shoulder but just a tad too far forward.  It ran a few steps and stopped facing away.  The remainder of the herd took off but she stayed standing there.  My guide suggested that we let her do her thing for a few minutes and then if need be shoot again but he didn't want to bust her into the brush. I was shooting offhand using a tripod rest and since cataract surgery last year have put a scope on my rifle as the front sight is hard for me to focus.  It finally turned and I was about to shoot when it walked into a group of trees.  We decided to try to get closer and when we got the range cut in half you could see her but there were too many branches to try for a killing shot.  As we tried to change the shot angle she walked off into the heavy brush.  My guide put me into a position where I could see fairly decent and then he went up above her and started down the hill to hopefully jump her out.  She waited until he was maybe 15 yards from her then got up and started down the hill toward me.  When I moved to raise my rifle she stopped and looked at me and I gave her 270 grains of my finest in the neck at 30 yards.  We tried to drag her out of the brush to where they could retrieve her with a side by side but after 3 feet I said timeout, let's wait for the calvary. When another guide showed up we were able to get her the 30 yards down the hill where it was open.  The last time I hunted with this rifle I killed a mule deer doe at 75 yards running up the hill away from me.  I was using a 235 grain Speer bullet and it did lots of damage so I decided to swithch to a heavier bullet.  The jacket for the 270 grain bullet was probably designed for a 375 H&H as it didn't leave a giant exit hole but the impact velocity at 200 yards was probably 1600 fps.  My biggest problem was that I didn't hit the lungs.  I got a 150 quart ice chest full of processed meat with the only major loss was the neck meat which I don't like much anyway. Now the fun begins, eating the elk meat and making sausage!   

Congratulations Tom, it's wonderful to see the classic single shots in use.

Hornady 3715 270gr is the go to for the Mannlicher Schoenauer 1910 9.5x57, in the past, it’s been hard to find. I have 150 squirreled away. Nice elk.
Mike