Well, reading 31 pages of the 257 Weatherby thread was good fun, so I thought I might ask this question:

It's 1958. If you handload, there's not much out there except the Nosler Partition, the Western Tool and Copper Works, Barnes, and a few others I'm forgetting. Suffice it say, super bullets are limited in supply.

More than that, powders aren't what they are today in terms of temperature stability, burning rate and availability. Some of the classics exist, and more than enough to get the job done, but the Golden Age of powders lies in the future.

You want an all around rifle for hunting "the West," whatever that means crazy What do you pick? If you were alive then, what did you pick?