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I think we've all read articles before by gun writers talking about rifle batteries. What combination of rifles to meet an individual's hunting needs. I've always found the articles and the opinion's of the writers interesting. I'd be interested to hear from forum members on what would make up there battery. Mine's below:

Winchester 70 Stainless Featherweight in 7mm Rem Mag. It was the first hunting rifle that I bought for myself rather than using rifles from my father and grandfather. It is my most versatile rifle with relatively light weight, flat frajectory and enough power to hunt just about anything in the lower 48. I've used it primarily for primarily mule deer but elk as well and taken as my backup rifle during pronghorn hunts.

Ruger No. 1 in .25-06. Set up with the older and longer Burris 4-12x Fullfield II scope it is my pronghorn and Coues deer rifle. Great open country rifle with a flat shooting cartridge.

Weatherby MkV Accumark in .340 Weatherby Mag. This is the rifle I purchased for elk hunting. The area I hunt in does have many open areas where shots to the far side of an open meadow or ridgeline seem to be the norm. the .340 shoots flat enough and has enough energy when it gets there.

223, 308, 375.

Nuff Said.

BMT

Pretty hard to beat that....

Now, this is a fun topic. . .

For serious work away from home

1) Sako AV .375 H&H Mannlicher with Leupold 2.5X8. Its light (8.5 lbs all up), handy and accurate. Initially bought for hunting Alaska coastal black bear, but its headed to Namibia in July.
2) Sako AV .300 Wby with 25" PacNor SS barrel and Zeiss Conquest 3.5X10. I've used this on just about anything in NA other than sheep (not been yet, but that's next). Took my finest game animal with it, a 51+ Rocky Mountain Goat. The gun is also about 8.5 lbs all up and is extremely accurate. Its been glass bedded and its wood stock has proved stable after being subjected to days of rain. It too is headed to Namibia.
3) So, what should come here? My .243, .25-06? Hmm, I can do everything with those that I can do with the .300 Wby. .22-250 or .22 BR? Well, these guns can cover a lot of ground, particularly my custom .22 BR (a rebarreled Winchester 70 Featherweight), but its a bit tough to load down to squirrel and rabbit velocities. So, its my old Sedgley 1885 low wall .22 Hornet. I can load it down to .22mag levels and kill small game (it is a squirrel killing machine). I can also load 40 gr. Vmax's up to 3000fps for whistle pigs to prairie dogs to coyotes.

If you don't mind, I think I'll list my playful 3 later.

Works for me, but...If it were that easy, what would you all have to argue about?

My 3 for Montana.

257 Roberts/115 Ballistic Tips

270 Winchester/140 Accubonds-135 SMK's

300 WSM/180 Partitions-175 SMK's

(A 204 Ruger or 223 would be nice)

I'm in the process of this right now.

I'm choosing:

.223 AI
7-08
.375 Ruger.

I'll have others but my plan is to make these three my "go to's"


Travis

Here ya' go.

1. Winchester M-70 Featherweight 25-06

2. Browning X-Bolt 7mm WSM

3. Marlin 1895G 45-70 Gov.

22-250 for coyotes and varmints

270 wsm for deer, antelope and the like

300wsm for elk, bear etc.

(I own all the above. 270wsm and 257 wbymag would be interchangeable)

If I was starting over, that would sum it up. The first two in Montanas and my 375 would be of the Ruger variety.

George

i've got all i will ever need being a varmint hunter i like to add a 4th

xp-100 221fb varmints out to 275yds
22-250 longe range varmint
270win deer
7mm mag anything bigger.

worldwide or just North America?

.22lr CZ452

.270 Win LH Rem 700KS

.338-06 LH Savage 110, heavily customized

Have no need for a .22 CF.

well, excluding 22s and cool milsurps that I just want to own, My 3 rifle hunting battery is shaping up like this;

Marlin 336/.35 Remington, my first real "deer rifle", for deer hunting in the timber

Custom Mauser action in 9.3x62, in progress, for elk

Next project for a hunting rifle I think will be another custom Mauser in 6.5x55, for deer hunting in more open areas

.22 LR - old Marlin bolt

30-06 - Rem. 700 SS

45/70 - Marlin 1895GSS

If I were forced to only have 3

.17 HMR, .257 Roberts, .338 Win Mag.

Or something like that.

Tom

If I had to trim to three of the current battery I would probably go with:
.22 LR CZ 452 bolt w/3-9x
.257 Weatherby Ultra Lightweight w/4-12 Vari x II
.375 H&H Browning Stainless Stalker in McMillan stock w/ Burris 3-9 Ballistic Plex in QR mounts plus open sights

i already have trimmed. not because i wanted to.

.22LR
.22-250
6.5x55

Would like to add a .308 and .25-06 but money is beyond tight right now.

Ruger 10/22
Slicked up Rem 700 in .25-06
Win. 70 in .375 H&H

That ought to handle it.

This week it's

22LR Bruno Model 2
308Win Kimber Montana
9.3x62 Sauer 202