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You can only have one rifle for hunting all big game in Alaska.. What would it be?




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I'd have to think about it as well. But, having had the opportunity to visit there this summer and talking with folks that live and hunt there, they seemed to be very comfortable with their .270's and '06's. They didn't seem to be as fond of the larger calibers as we are, and the grizzly pelts I saw didn't seem to have any opinion either way. Me, though - I'd probably take a 300WM and a 338WM.

From Alaska G&F: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=hunting.firearms

Living here all my life I have hunted with a 308 more than anything.

My one rifle, if I could have or take only one, for hunting anywhere is a .30-06. It's not perfect in any scenario but it (almost) covers them all.

I would take a 30-06.

It works.

I've hunted up here with a bunch of different rifles and aside from mountain hunting I almost always reach for my 35 Whelen. For mountain hunting or the wide open tundra I take my 257 weatherby or one of my 30/06s. My wife hunts exclusively with her 270 Winchester.

I know few that is what they use for everything including brown bears, placement and bullet construction is key.

30.06

Steyr-Mannlicher Model M Professional with a Meopta 6x42 scope with a #4 reticle in Warns QD mounts.

Either be my 30-06 carbine, not much a 200 gr Partition couldn't handle or my 375 Ruger Alaskan. It handles the deer and elk woods just fine, I'm sure it could adapt. It might like to go home someday anyways, bought it at Boondocks when they came out in 2007.

While I would hate to be a one rifle guy if I could only have one it would be my 300 RUM. Its probably more horsepower than you really need but it has never failed me. I could just as easily go with a 30/06. I would stick with the same bullet 168gr TTSX. I haven�t figured out a way to stop one of them yet.

The 30-06 seems like the logical choice. However, A good 9.3x62mm or a 338 win mag would also work great.

I'd pick my 300 RUM also if limited to one cartridge. Rifle is a stainless model 70. 200gr Barnes LRX would be the bullet of choice (as it is now).

It is a toss between my .338 and my '06. I've hunted them both every year since the early 90's. The .338 mostly for elk and the '06 for deer.

They weigh within 8 ounces of each other.

I suppose I would go with the .338. While I most often shoot 225's [Hornadys, Partitions and Bearclaws], I load 180's 200's, and 210's depending on the hunt. My dad always wanted me to take a moose with it.

Same thing I use for most of my hunting now.

A 280.

I hunted mostly with a 300 Win Mag when I lived there in the 1990s.

Today, given the quality of bullets, I'd use my 308 or 7mm-08 for everything.

I knew an old man that used a 308 with 220 Partitions(?) on everything.

Wasn't long range, but killed everything it hit.

Funny thing, I've never killed so much as a gopher with a 30-06, have had three and have one now. Lived in Alaska for a while and carried my 308 hunting. But if I went back and hunted I believe I might take my present 30-06 loaded with 180gr bullet's.

338 Edge with 300 gr Accubonds for everything out to 400 yards,
beyond that 300 gr Berger Hunting bullets.....