Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Deer hunting rifle... what caliber?

I have 4 deer tags this year and so far I have filled 2 of them. I also had one Antelope tag which I filled and I have one elk tag yet to fill .
Deer #1 was shot with a Remington M141 in 35 Remington. #2 was a Marlin 336 in 30-30. Pronghorn buck was shot with a 30-06 M1 garand

I have several other rifles I may use for deer #3 and #4.
It's a pleasant dilemma------- to need to choose only 2 from the list. All on my "deer-list" have only iron sights.

5.56
6.5 Mannlicher
270
303 British
300 Savage Remington M81
300 Savage Savage 99
9.3X57
I don't exclude the 3 rifles above yet either, a 30-06 from the M1, the 30-30 or the 35 Remington........

Bullets I have loaded are
60 Gr Partition for the 5.56,
156 grain PPU for the 6.5X54,
150 grain RN Core-Lokt for the 270,
180 gr Core-Lokt for the 303,
150 gr Core-Lokt for the Savage 99 300,
180 grain Nosler BT for the 300 Savage Remington 81,
285 Gr RN for the 9.3X57,
170 gr Core-Lokt for the 30-30
200 grain Core-Lokt for the 35 Rem,
and 150 grain Nosler BT for the M1 garand.

My elk hunt is a meat hunt and in open country, so I will use a scoped rifle for that, and I will probably just get out the Mauser in 300 H&H with 200 grain Partitions, but I may use my 9.3X62 Mauser with 286 grain Hornadys or my 9.3X74R, Ruger #1 with 286 grain Partiutions.

Decisions decisions................................What say you folks?