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What say you? Generally talking about big game rifles here!
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Toss up between .300wm and .270.
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The choice would come down to the 35 and 400 Whelen. I guess in the end I would feel lost without my 400. It has become my hands down, favorite big game rifle.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
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270, the easy solution to most hunting challenges. But the 256 Newton could have filled the same market niche if Charles Newton had been a better marketeer.
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Same here. With so many choices overlapping one another, one is sure to have 4-5 choices around a favorite.
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375 H&H. I can hunt happily with it for anything forever. Like it at the range also. I've shot steenbok to elephant with it. And I just love my rifle. I will be a homeless hobo living under an overpass before I sell it.
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I have one - it's called 6mm Rem NOT my choice as a must have. Jerry
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Same here. With so many choices overlapping one another, one is sure to have 4-5 choices around a favorite. Yep, as long as I have 1 of 4 OR 5 I could do all my big game hunting, no sweat. Jerry
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My late father left me 30-06 and 300 sav, so those. Other than that my tastes vary from year to year.h
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I guess 30-06 for me. As long as I have a stable, there will be a 30-06 in it.
I feel like it will do anything on the continental US and in all likelihood I'll never do a dangerous game safari or coastal brown bears so it will handle anything im going to be hunting
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All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
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Now that is definitely a rare one!!!!!
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Same here. With so many choices overlapping one another, one is sure to have 4-5 choices around a favorite. OK is there a particular rifle in a particular chambering that you will not let go?
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OK is there a particular rifle in a particular chambering that you will not let go?
Put that way, yes, there is one; 7SAUM in a Bansner stock. It's nothing special and easily replicated but it's got the package "it" factor for me - a lot of history and ample battle scars to make folks think I don't care of my equipment.
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Learning to live without a .270, having given my last one away at Christmas to my only nephew. With that one gone, the .30-06 will be the last to go.
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