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Given that I like overlap and ubiquity in my caliber choices, mine would be:
243
30-06
375 H&H
That pretty much covers everything from varmints to elephants with ammo available most places game is hunted.
Simple is better in my book.
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If I had to choose only 3 I would have heart failure and I felt my head starting to explode thinking about it...
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243 (8 twist will shoot 70gr - 105gr)
270 (does a lot of things well)
300 win mag (180 - 200gr what won't that kill?)
Nothing real fancy but it will do what I need it to
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Apart from the target rifles, I don't need three. Not saying I don't have them; just that I don't need them. GD
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223, lightweight 308, heavyweight 308
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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.17 HMR (easier to find ammo)
.270 WSM
.358 Norma Mag
I don't know if it's right or not but it works for me.
Of course I have plenty of other calibers but if I had to rely on just three.........
"A .358 Norma Mag is not for everyone but then again Bear hunting isn't either."
Unknown Bear guide on the Kodiak coast
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223, lightweight 308, heavyweight 308 That'll do nicely. The 223 doubles as a "22mag" with suitable reloads. Make the HW 308 a switch-barrel and get a Creed barrel.
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I pretty much only hunt Roosevelt elk, and my three are:
7STW
300H&H
30-06
I'm pretty sure they'd work for deer also. And bears. And moose. And. . .
But, if I was going for versatility
260
7STW
375WBY
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223 / 5.56x45 in a 20" AR of some type 7mm Rem Mag in SS Ruger M77 Mark II with McMillan Stock 338 Win Mag in SS Ruger M77 Mark II with Pacific Research stock --------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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Lever gun
.32 Special
.348 win
.405 win
Continental
6.5x55
8x68
9.3x62
British
.244
.300
.375 all H&H
Belted American
.264
.300
.338 All W-W
Standard American
.222
.257
.30-06
Modern rave
.223AI
6.5 Creed
.300 Blackout
Metro sexual
.270 Win
.270 WSM
.270 Bee
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While it's almost blasphemous to consider only three rifles I'd choose these.
221 Fireball or 222 for varmints and fur and with cast bullets it could be loaded down to 22 LR performance. I thought long about a 22 LR but in the end decided the 221 or 222 would offer the versatility of a rimfire as well as a varmint round. Left handed of course and topped with a 6x Leupold in QD mounts. A receiver sight zeroed for the cast bullet load would round out the package.
6.5x54 Mannlicher Schoenauer 1903 with a claw mount 4x Zeiss, Hensoldt or Nickel scope and a Lyman 36 sight. If I have to be limited to three rifles they're not going to be run of the mill. They'd have to be something interesting, at least to me. I would willingly suspend the left handed requirement in regard to a MS. The coolness factor tips the scales enough to override the fact it's incorrectly handed.
And of course to no one's surprise the third one will be a left handed model 70 in 400 Whelen. Lyman 48 receiver sight and a Weaver 2.5x or 3x post and crosshair.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
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1) 223
2) 7mm RM
3) 375 H&H
All bolt guns
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This goes with the automatic 22LR, it doesn't count.  I would coin flip between my 8T 22-250AI and 8T 6mm Rem. After than, the 7 pound 280 Rem and the 7 1/2 pound 9.3X62. Easy.
Anybody who seriously concerns themselves with the adequacy of a Big 7mm for anything we hunt here short of brown bear, is a dufus. They are mostly making shidt up. Crunch! Nite-nite!
Stolen from an erudite CF member.
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For my purposes, as a MI small game and deer hunter, I could do really well with:
Ruger 77/22 with Burris 2-7x Rimfire scope
AR platform .223 with 10x scope for varmints/coyotes
Winchester 70 FWT in .308 with a Leupold VX-3 2.5-8
Oddly, all reside in my safe, but they have company, because life would suck if limited to 3 rifles.
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1. 220 Swift
2. 25-06
3. 35 Whelen
I'll take mine long and thin, like my woman. You other fella's can have the short and fat one's.
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"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country."
Robert E. Lee
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223, 270, 375... but I've outgrown the idea of a "battery" of any number.
I know what I want to hunt and a 22lr, 257 Rob and 270 Win will do it all for me. 6 years later, I haven't changed my mind a bit...
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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After much selling, I am down to a ....
1. 257Robt M700 faux TI with FXII 4x
2. 270 Win Weatherby Vanguard with VXII 3-9
3. 30/06 M700 faux TI with FXII 4x
The 30/06 may or may not become a 35Whelen. Either way, this should cover all my big game hunting needs. A couple others are in the safe as well, but these will do the anything I need.
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223 4X
7MM STW 3-12X
308 2-7X
Ed
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