I'm 77 and have some twenty ot more rifles. Knowing what I know now, if I started over I would have the following:

A bolt action accurate ..22 LR,
Two center fire bolt rifles in .243 and .308 ( I have no local PD, ground squirrels and etc.). Going to Africa or AK, I would buy a used heavy and sell it post hunt.

I will take this farther. Three handguns, .22; .38;

& either a .44 or .45.

And lastly a 12 and 20 shotgun of your choice. Mine would be an O/U 20 and an 870

Jack

"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people...who have...rejoiced in their loss of freedom....Blame the people who hail him when he speaks of the 'new, wonderful, good, society'...to mean ,..living fatly at the expense of the industrious." Cicero