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

You know,the B-29 Creedmoor is also a good choice.

“Need”! If you are a very proficient hunter... a 22LR will suffice! As that, “did not” accurately describe me, probably a .270 Win. and up. Most likely, bullet selection is more important than caliber! memtb

Sure like to give it a go with an 8x57...mine likes 200gr Hot Cor and Partition bullets pretty much equally.

270 with 150 NP.

That’s exactly what came to mind for me as well, though my .280 or .30-06 would also do a fine job. Anything in that class with a proper bullet would do the trick nicely.

My .300 WM has done all I need and made some really tough shots easy.. An 06 would be fine, but ify on some of the longer range stuff.. Most of my hunts where the .300 shined was before knobs and range finders..

For 20+ years all I had was a 7mm caliber, RM chamber. Prairie dogs for practice, occasional coyotes, plus antelope, mule deer and elk. The 7mm RM proved to be a good choice as it worked fine.

If I had to go back to a single caliber it would still be a 7mm or .30 caliber.

.30-06 personally. Its nice to have options though.

I would go with a 30 cal. Probably 30-06.

.257 Roberts with 100 or 120gr. Nosler Partition for medium game and .35 Whelen with 225gr. Sierra Game King for larger game.

.308 or .284 calibers if everything is on the menu.

338 Win mag.

If bears are on the menu a 35 Whelen is small as I would consider.

Teeth and claws?

.358 or Whelen or a 338 magnum.

Not? Any 6.5/7/30 that’ll push 130+ to 2750-3000.

I answered this question to myself some years ago with a switch barrel rifle equipped with a .270 and a 9.3x62 barrels, just in case the .270 was not enough. I still have not fired the 9.3. The folly of this purchase is that I have a matched pair of Browning Safaris built on the Small ring Mauser action in .243 and .308. This pair will do anything that I am likely to do, using from 55 to 180 bullets. We have few colony varmints on our hunting grounds, and I'm over the hill for chasing big bears. Modern projectiles put the older rounds on steroids.

I have been hunting deer and like size game for about sixty years. I recall making FOUR shots that I could not have pulled off with a .30-30. I have to question why I have all these other rifles. Maybe I'm a little looney. Both Dad and Uncle got along just fine with .30-30s.

Jack

.308... or .308 Winchester if talking about cartridges. With good bullets and modest ranges they will do anything you need them to.

Ditto.

Anything from a 260 Remington to a 338 Winchester magnum. I use my 30-06.

It really doesn't matter. I'm not sure anything is perfect for everything across the board, everything comes with some compromise or other, and yet there are a lot of cartridges that can get it done if we accept a bit of compromise. I think we overthink [bleep]. It's what we do when we don't actually have time to spend doing [bleep].

Tom

That would have been my choice as well....But, the “necessary “ part messed that up! memtb

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