Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles In reality What caliber you need to hunt all North America's Medium and Large Game?

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I'm really supprised that there aren't more post for the .308 cartridge.

Anything 7mm-.30 cal in a 51mm case. That's the ticket!

Are you including Grizzly and Kodiak bear in the Large Game category?

Nope, I posted that in the OP.

30-06 with a sturdy 165/168, like an E-Tip or TTSX, at 2,850. A 280 with 150gr versions would be fine as well.

Almost any of approximately 628 cartridges from 24 cal./6mm up to .366 cal./9.3mm made from about 1888 to the present. There's so much ballistic duplication among cartridges it boggles the mind how similar so many are. Bullets? A well designed and cast, cast bullet works as good as anything else until you get to critters that can bite back and even then hardened cast bullets have historically done a pretty fair job.

Ditto ditto. It would be the 308 for me now 'cause I like light/short. In more practical days, it would have been 30-06 for me.

I hunt more elk than anything I and have become attached to my 7mm STW and 300 Win Mag but I think a med. fast 6.5mm or up would do for all big game less the bears. The numbers on the 147 ELD-M at 3000-3100 fps are very intriguing.

Truthfully the caliber is not as important to me as other features.

The accuracy, how the rifle fits me, how quickly I get a perfect sight picture, how quickly I can cycle the action, etc, etc are more important than .264 vs .284 vs .308. A couple hundredths of an inch really really does not mean a bunch to me.

I would be happy with a properly stocked, properly scoped, and accurate rifle chambered in about any somewhat standard cartridge, from 6.5 Swede/6.5-284, to .270, to .308, to 30-06.

All that said, I have a "do it all" rifle. It is chambered in .308, and I would not hesitate to hunt anything in N.A. with it.

It is boringly reliable, boringly accurate, and just plain works.

30-06 or 308.

Always with the right bullets. 7mm remington mag. 30-06 338

I would go 30 and include big bears without concern... and moose die quite well when 30/06ed, too.

What he said.

Mine likes both of those. But, it loves the 195gr Interlock. Especially the discontinued Hornady factory load with the same. That load has plenty of smack for anything that I am ever going to hunt. Truthfully, I wouldn't feel terribly undergunned with it for the big bears.

Heck, I'll include grizzly bear:

The 30-06 is all I used last year to take: pronghorn, mule deer, elk, black bear, wolf and grizzly...

Just a Rem 700 CDL in 30-06 with an old 2-7x Redfield scope, and handloads in both 165 & 200 gr versions.

Now, please don't tell my wife that I can do it all with that one rifle, 'cause I kinda enjoy hunting with some other rifles time to time.

Guy

I prefer a .35 Whelen. 200 gr. to 250 gr. Various types of bullet heads to choose from. Killed B&C Kodiak Brown Bear in 2006, with one shot using hand loads and 250gr Speer.

I feel exactly the same about my Synthetic 700 in (28 cal.), 7mm RM. It also is among my lighter rifles.

Jerry

Guy M, you need to get out more. Some one once said " It is the indian, not the arrow"


mike r

For caliber I'll go 7mm.

For cartridge I'll go 7mm-08 but I could be persuaded to go 7mm Rem Mag.






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