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There have always been stories in magazines about the all around rifle. How many hunters that hunt more than deer just own or use a single one?

Which magazine are you talking about?

I dough if you were a one rifle user you would be on this forum

One?

I would like to get down to four!

I have one for each category

.243 for varmints
7mm-08 for LW backpack
30/06 for my all around
280 AI set up for LR
9.3x62 for anything that could bite back

does that count?

I'm thinking back to several years ago. I haven't read a gun or hunting magazine in several years other than the American Rifleman and American Hunter.

I'm thinking about simplifying what I have, dropping back to a couple of rifles and one safe.

I was for many years. A Winchester model 88 in .308. It was traded for a M70 in 7Mag when I got the Magnum fever in my mid 20's. I only had one deer rifle until my early 30's and it's been a slippery slope ever since. I'm at 13 now. I have 12 too many but enjoy most of them.

Maybe you should have posted this in the "combination guns and drillings: section?

But then again, those guys are loonies and usually own more than one of those too!

Geno

I'm at 16 and use something different every year.

I only use one at a time.

I am more or less in that category. I'm sure I'll acquire other rifles over the years (I'm younger than most on this forum) but I've always been more of a small game and bird hunter so I have gravitated towards shotguns instead of rifles.

Steelhead:
I took a guy deer hunting once. He carried a 30-06 and double barreled 12 gauge loaded with buckshot. He said the shotgun was for "up close". I tried to convince him a 30-06 would kill a deer at 10 yards but he wasn't having it. He carried both from daylight til dark.

You can only do so much with stupid.

He never went with me again.

Can't imagine only one big game rifle, but if I only had one, it would be a 7-08, or 280 Rem(for anything I hunt).

A range of 7's might be practical, whereas a range of 30's may not?
Plus a .458 of some sort.

I can't do just one but for my big game hunting a 30-30, 308, and 7mm Mag would suffice for anything I'm likely to do.

For many years I used my Rem 700 Krieger Custom '30ought6' for hunting and LR, but I won a Rem 700 AAC-SD last year in a raffle and used it last season (took a nice 8 point and 230# sow using same Barnes 165grn Triple-Shok bullet I ran in the '06 when hunting).

30-06 went back to being my 1K rifle pitching 175grnSMKS and sporting the Leupy Mil-Dot.

For most of my children's childhood I had one rifle, a model 70 270, in a Brown Precision stock. Could have, should have, stopped there, but the last decade has been fun. Down to one hunting rifle now, a model 700 SS mtn rifle, in 270!

B R H -

The last yr. I only had 1 rifle was 1974 IIRC maybe '75.

Ain't going back w/o a fight!