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Interesting thread. I honestly didn't know until I checked my notes. 30-06 came out on top.
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You got me to thinking, but I would say the 30-06. Then maybe a 300 WM and 30338. I have also used 243, 257 Roberts, 250-3000, 6.5x55, 308, 22-250, 223, 45-70 and 44 mag.
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.308
Closely followed by .270 and .243
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It's a toss up between the 7x57 and the 270 WSM and lately the 358 Win has been catching up.
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Over 40 years, the 30-06, cause I wasn't yet educated to all the stuff I should have ignored.
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.338 Win Mag because of two trips to Africa.
Here, I use and prefer a 7x57.
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This may surprise some but my 250ai would be 1st.follwed by my .270 and 280 ai
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It would be either the 30-06 or 257Wby. They were the first 2 that I did a good bit of hunting with before I got into collecting. Since then I've been trying out new cartridges each year so rarely more than 1 kill per cartridge.
I'll add - I've killed exactly 1 each with the 270 and 7Mag, 0 with 308, 30-30, or 243.
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7-08. I don't know how many hogs I have taken with it and it is double digit on deer.
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30-06 and 260, dont have numbers, but those two are running a pretty close race.
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7-08 by a large margin but I don't own one at the moment so the others will be catching up
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By far an away the.270 Winchester followed fairly close by .338 Winchester magnum, then I got into "playing" with other stuff so neither has been out of vault much of late.
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.270, .280, 7-08, and .308, taken a lot of game with all. Not sure in witch order.
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300 H&H. I've had one longer than any other centerfire cartridge. For many years it was my only centerfire rifle for big game.
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My Remington 243 heavy barrel varminter from the 80's.
Bought it in Germany, at the rod and gun club.
Shot a few roe deer with it.
Brought it back to the states, and have shot ground squirrels, ground hogs, a pheasant, turkeys, Fox, coyotes, badgers, whitetail deer, mule deer, a fallow deer in Belgium, and an few antelope.
I'm sure I may have missed some critter or 2, but a 243 has been with me a long time.
7x64, would be 2nd.
Many Roe deer, a bear in Maine, a coyote or 2, and a few whitetails.
My 280ai, a few cow elk, and 2 oryx.
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