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If I'm posting too much, just ignore this. The weather is truly crappy today and I'm stuck inside all day with my kids while my wife gets to leave... got nothing better to do.

This subject gets beat to death, but I'm trying to take it to the Nth degree by narrowing it to one load.

I'll go with 30-06 and a 165-gn TSX at 2950 fps. Make mine a M700 rifle and a 2.5x8 Loopy scope. This is a rifle I could see hunting into my 80's with- in terms of recoil and kill-everything effectiveness, etc.

The irony of choosing a caliber over 100 years old does not escape me!

If anyone else is as bored as I am today... chime in! The rest of ya'll, just ignore it...

-jeff

Very close to yours, 3006, left hand savage 110 synthetic stock, 3x9x40 nikon monarch, but I would go with a 180 nosler partition, my own handload, remington brass, 9 1/2 primer and 55 grains IMR 4350.

Wait a minute I already have this setup that I have used for 16 years that shoots 3/4 inch at 100 yards, why do I have all these other rifles?

Daddy Rat

Jeff,

I'd take my Swede M38 Husqvarna Mauser 24" barrel, 8#s..:)( mil config) in 6,5x55, 140 gr Sierra BTSP, 2550 FPS.

Vintage Weaver 4X fixed steel solid tube, Warne QD mounts and Brownell's Prec Plus shooting sling.
That's IF there was one and only one..:) Jim

CZ 550 9.3x62, 286gr Nosler Partition in Nosler Custom Ammunition, Leupold 2.5x compact.

Make mine a Winchester 300 RUM. 180-grain TSX. For a scope, Leupold VX-III 3.5-10x40.

Mine will be a 300RUM also. M700, 168TSX, Leupold VX III, 4.5 - 14 x 40 (B&C reticle of course), Boyds JRS in pepper laminate, With a Sims pad, and a Harris UltraLight.

Oh wait, I've already got one...

All this gun talk, I better take mine out for a walk tomorrow...I think it wants to kill something...

Tikka T3 SS, .308, Hornady interbond 180 gr, Zeiss 2,5-10x42.

ruger no 1 in .280 with a 3-9x40 4200 elite, or sightron S2 or Leupold VX-II. you get the idea.

One more please. Sako 85 SS .375 HH, Nosler Accubond 260 gr,Zeiss 2,5-10x42.

I would have chosen a magnum, probably .338 WM, but I worry that the recoil (which is a non-issue for me now in life) might someday become a problem... So I went with something potent yet still manageable.

Jim, do you use a Sierra on elk?

-jeff

Rem 700 300win Leupy 4.5-14 180gr TSX

If I had to choose one from my collection, it would be my customized .280 Remington shooting 140 accubonds through it's bombproof B&L 3-9x40. I trust it completely, and with todays amazing bullets, it could easily be the ultimate for me.

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I have the M700 100yr Aniv. 30-06, 2.5-8 Luppy B&C, Ti BDL Stock and It's in a class of it's own.

Depop: Nice "chhip!"

This is my choice, probably because I've owned and used it since the late 60's and it gives me great confidence. With the new bullet options we have today, it's an even better choice these days.

Remodeled Rem 700 in .270 win, now wearing a 2.5x8 Leupold.


Those gun bearers are all grown up now. BT

I will take my 06 in a hawkeye with a Mcmillian stock and the 2.5-8 lupie. The load is the same, 165 TSX

I will list what I currently own and consider a "hunt the world" rig. It would be my 338 Win Mag. It is a Howa M1500 w/Bell and Carlson tan & black web stock (same style as Wby Vanguard MOA models). It wears the Leupold FX-II 6x36mm (I like fixed scopes, my 308 Win wears the FX-II 4x33mm). World class loading would be Barnes TSX or XLC in 225gr at 2,850 fps. Not much you can't do with that as .33 bullets fly a long way, all you have to do is get them started.

I'm already in this boat , but I use a Ruger MKII ss/lam in 338 Win Mag with a Loopy 3-9X40. The load is one Mule Deer has talked about here a bit; 65gr R15, 210gr Partition, in win brass sparked by Fed 215M primers. Though I haven't tallied up as many critters as some, its never not worked. Here's a few pics of it's 'victims' from this year:

there in no one rifle. There is no one bullet for that rifle. There is no one load for that rifle or bullet. this kind of thread is getting to be a bore.

.270 NULA. 140 gr Accubond. swaro 3x9x40. what? that was easy.