You will have to change the barrel, bolt head and mag which is not a big deal.
How about a 280 or 284 win with a premium bullet.
The straight 284 will push a 180 gr berger at 2950 over RL17.
Maybe a 260 ??
A 243 would be my suggestion if you had not mentioned Elk.
We load ours with 80 gr TTSX barnes bullets at 3300 fps out of an 18" barrel.
You can get over 3400 fps with a 22" barrel and RL17. Good low recoil deer round.
The 6.8 SPC is probably my favorite low recoil deer and hog round shooting the 95 gr TTSX
and a few people have killed elk at a distances like 300-350 with 110gr bullets.
Not my choice for elk, but with a good bullet it hits like a sledghammer and the recoil is very low.
Oh, edit #1 thing to do is put a duromax stock on it. IMO the recoil is a lot more tolerable with that stock
and decelerator pad.
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