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In the past I have shot all my deers with a 270 Win. This year I gave the 270 WSM a try. I really liked it. It will probably be my go to gun from now on.

30.06 but I am liking the 7 Mag. more and more each season.

No argument from me Mike, just stating my favorite...

Either a two blade rage, a .45 cal SST, or a 308 win... Depends on the season.

the 223 really is a neat little deer slayer... i love them little buggers! it's not my only deer rifle but i make sure to take at least one deer with one each year... if not more..

I have not found it lacking yet, and I have used it alot...

Hi all, new poster/old hunter. I like the 300wsm, but my wife is old school practical norwegian, so I only get one rifle and have to consider moose someday!

12 ga. 00 Buck

7-08. This fall it will be my x-mas gift from my daughter, M99 Savage in 250-3000. She bought me that, as she stole my first year produced Rem.7 in 6MM. Pretty good trade off I guess.

My goto is the Bob because it has worked for me since 1982. On the other hand, we have so many does here that I usually get to try out something different each year. I always get a deer with a patched .45 caliber RB out of an old Hatfield Long Rifle, and I try to take one with the .44 Special or Magnum, or.45 Colt revolvers. I have used everything from .22 Hornet to .375, and next fall plan to use the .338-06 cause I have never killed a whitetail with it.

My favorite for the last dozen or so years has been the 25-06 caliber in a model 70 Winchester but lately I have been using a .264/06 (6.5/06 I hate metrics!) which I think is going to a relative soon and I am going back to my ole .270 Winchester, since my son has take the 1/4 bore to heart and loves it a bunch.

300 Savage

I like my .450 Marlin but I don't think an ADK whitetail is thick enough to open the bullets up. I shot two bucks with it and they never acted like they had been hit, just kept strolling along at a slow walk. I shot the first one three times before he dropped and the second one twice. They were both dead on their feet after the first one but I didn't think I was hitting them because they never broke stride.

But every one I dinged with a 180gr .30-06 dropped in his tracks like he'd been poleaxed, so I'm going to have to go with plain vanilla.

7x57 with 175 Speer grand slams

270 Winchester with 150 NP's

Gunner

Nothing wrong using an old M70 30-06 with 180GR bullets.

It puts them down like 'right now'.....

I'd have to say the 7mm-08 is my favorite round for deer so far. I've killed them with a .22, .22 magnum, .270, .30-06, .45/70, 7mm-08,and 7mm Rem. mag. I find that it is hard to beat the 7mm-08 for deer. It does not have much recoil, flat shooting, and seems to put a deer down just as fast or faster than the other rounds I've tried.

.257 Roberts.

4570 and 356 win.Shots are under 125 yds. so far. I like the large bullet concept despite having used an 06 for years.

I'm a fan of the 'large bullet concept' myself, even when hunting something as small as deer.

Although I didn't shoot them myself, last season a good friend of mine used my M70 .375 H&H to take a couple of very large Kansas Whitetail.

The deer were taken with factory Federal 270GR cartridges.

Two cartridges, two deer.

If I'm hunting the oak/hickory hardwoods of SW Missouri it's hard to beat a 200 gr RN out of my good old 35 Remington Marlin lever gun. For north MO farm country my favorite of late is the 257 Weatherby.
Of the sixty-some deer I've killed with a centerfire, my 30-06 Ackley has accounted for the most but I've killed them with everything from the 6mm Rem to the 45/70. They all worked well.