Thousands of multi-year elk hunters agree with you, including those of decades past who harvested cows and the biggest bulls with 87 grain partitions from the then new 25-3000 calibre Savage lever actions. Some areas in the Rocky Mountain states & Canuck provinces didn't take an new elk hunter seriously unless a fella had one of these new 25 calibre Savages in the crok of his arm. Then Remington made the wildcat 25-06 an official cartridge, and it was even better than Savages 25-3000.I have killed 4 cow elk and 2 bull elk with a .25-06 either in neck or double lung. from ranges or 50 yards to 300 plus.
I think it is a perfect rifle for elk.
my wife uses a .243 for elk and has taken 3 cows with it.
we use Nosler Partitions and do wonders on lungs and don't even twitch when shot in neck.