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I could get along very nicely with one of those myself.

I'm finally down to a 223 & 7RM. Also have a hand me down 270 tucked away that I can't part with. Factory ammo from here on out and somehow I found time and money I didn't realize I had for other cool schit.

No one said you had to fill the gas tank to full everytime...

A .30-06 in a Mauser action, double-set triggers, Lyman 48 rear sight and sourdough front sight, and a Griffin&Howe QD scope mount w/1½-5x premium scope as backup. Stock and barrel whittled down to make for 8 pounds all-up. Enough gun for Alaska? Probably, according to a lot of guys with more experience than me. Enough gun for Africa? Who cares, I'm never going there anyway.

I'd say a 250 or 350 would work just fine! (F, that is)





Jerry

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I don't think Nosler makes a 150 gr Accubond in 7mm. They do make 140 and 160 AB's and I use the 140's in my .280 Rem. The 150 gr BT seems pretty stout though, and would work for most things.

I see Nosler does make a 150 gr long range accubond. I've heard they're a bit soft at closer ranges but I have no personal experience with them.

This is sort of silly, but only one rifle. It would be a long action Remington BDL switch barrel. The barrels would include all calibers between22-250 and 400 Whelen.

I'm more of a bird hunter than a big game hunter. If I could have only one center fire rifle I'd take an AR in 5.56 mm. I can hunt deer and varmints with it, shoot 3 gun matches, protect the house, it's verstile, fun and cheap to shoot

Better.

30-06 w/ 165 grain Accubonds or Partitions in a Remington 700 or Winchester M70(only if it's push fed).

If it had truly come down to being allowed only one rifle, then I assume something else has gone wrong as well.

So, an AR 15 would probably be useful.


If we are talking just normal hunting scenarios, I would consider 30-06, 338, or 375 in a solid bolt action. For me, it would be the 30-06. Most likely in a Winchester or Ruger.

I've already got the "one" My Model 70 Featherweight in 7 X 57. Mine wears a Leupold VXIII 2.5 X 8. It will do anything I need to do and would be the last rifle I would ever get rid of

My second choice would be my Remington 700 Classic in .264 Win Mag.
It has an old Leupold VXII 4 X 12 mounted on it.

Like most here on the Fire, I've probably got way too many rifles. But if I had to sell all of them and just choose one, I wouldn't have any problem going with either one of the above.

This one rifle business is mostly an intellectual circle jerk(I assume we're talking one rifle for BG hunting....not competition,banging gongs,shooting three shot groups at 100 yards, repelling the next zombie invasion etc.).

I don't know, nor have I ever met, any serious BG hunters who only own one BG rifle. Most of them are more experienced or smarter than that.

Yup,minimum 6 to start with.

Oh Bob, haven't you ever heard the old saying, "Watch out for the guy that owns one gun". The rest of us are too stupid to figure out how to use multiple rifles... .. It's just too damn complicated..

I'm leaning an a pair of 7x57 Model 70 BACO Supergrades, a Montana .270 WCF and soon will be torture testing a Browning X Bolt in 375 H&H.
But waaaaay in the back of the safe is a 300Win Mag. but I forget the model............

It's hard to not pick a 30-06 for an "all arounder". It can do damn near anything. Not real classy, not real fast, not a lot of cool factor, but it damn sure gets the job done with boring regularity.