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Bullets mean more than caliber. That said, I'd take a 7mm or 30 with good bullets. What bullets do you use in your hunting rifles? I been using TTSX and TSX .308 bullets Currently: 165 TTSX, in 30-06 165 HIB, in 30-06 Berger 210 in 300WM 150 NAB in 308
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The correct answer is/was/always will be the .30-06.
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Well....I don't know that I'd ever hunt moose or elk unless I lived where they lived. Too much logistics involved with the meat and so forth, beginning with getting the monster back to the truck.
But I agree, if ya live there, that a lightweight .308 would be good for carryin'. Although a 30-06 mght be better for shootin'. But then ya gotta figure, where there's moose and elk, there might also be something there hunting you! So that gives that 33 cal comment some credence.
I guess.....if I was going to pick a brand spankin new rifle for whatever I might hunt, sub-400 pound game...(I really like the 30-30 and .243)...I'd go with the trend and get a creed of the 6.5 variety, even though a .270 or .308 would likely be a better call for the upper end of that spectrum.
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Any 180 grn. soft point. I used corlokts until now. Cant find them anymore so I bought some Federal 180 soft points that had been pulled from factory ammo for some reason.
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270 Winchester, 130gr Nosler partition, Duh 
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28 with a 25 as a second choice.
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270 Winchester, 130gr Nosler partition, Duh That would work for me as well. Pretty much a 7mm... Definitely the round I've killed the most with.
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.300 Win gets My vote......Hb
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280 - All the time - - Every time
Back up would be a 308
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.300 Win gets My vote......Hb Probably this, but 270 for me since I don't see a moose in my future. Or a bear.
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The 30/06 is perfection, I however carry the .270 win everywhere and because I am a sheep hunter and offers an little advantage up there on the mountain tops. Ditto to the .280 and the 25/06.Magnifico!
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I haven’t hunted everywhere, but everything I shot in Alaska and Africa and the lower 48 with a 308 died fairly quickly.
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I'm leaning towards 29 myself.
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My Featherweight in 7 X 57 loaded with either a 140 gr Partition or a 130 gr TSX
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