If I posted on this earlier, please keep in mind I'm old and simple.
We can use any centerfire here, so I could go as low as a .223 without issue, and maybe without bears. But Virginia is less than two miles from here, and they have a .23 caliber minimum, so a 6mm of some sort is probably as low as I could go and cover all my possibilities. Have two of those right now.
Can't imagine being without both a .308 and a .270 though; just too much history with those, and they certainly get it done. Also, a 98 is, to my mind anyway, the last word in hunting rifles, so if "There Can Be Only One", one of my FN .270s would be it, and I'd just have to deal with the weight as best I could.
