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6mm rem and 35 Whelen here and 264 win, sometimes.

223, 243, and 270 is all that's left....

Faithful to the .22 and .30 cals for years but lately been turning into a bit of a caliber slut. I have been playing a lot with 6mms, 7mms, .35s, and starting to get into the 6.5s. For some reason I haven't had much interest in the .270s and .33s.

+1, I've usually got 4 or 5 7MM-08's all ready to go, currently down to only 4 but one will likely be hunting most this year. Nothing not to like about a good 7MM-08!!

I own the 6.5 caliber. I have officially claimed it here, now. Many of you owe me a bunch in usage fees. I now accept Paypal.

I own a wide variety but for our smallish southern whitetails my various 22cal centerfires will handle the vast majority of my hunting situations. Second most used are probably my 25s.

Most of them.


Jerry

Most of them here also, but .25 cal takes the lead, have 14 rifles in various 25-cal chamberings.

quite a few .30's and .35's also though....

The most rifles I have in one caliber is 6mm Rem. 7400 ,742, Ruger#1, Ruger M77, and Rem 600

Half of my my centerfires are a .257 of some type, from Savages to 06s with a lot of Bob in between!!

223 and 7-08

.243 .270, 7x57, 280AI, 30'06 300 H&H.

My 6.5’s are catching up too, 3 Creedmoor’s, 3- 264’s, one 26 Nosler

.338 in several flavors

I currently have 2 6mm rifles, 2 6.5 mm rifles, two 7mm rifles, two .30 cal rifles, and two 8mm rifles (32 Special and 8mm Rem mag) plus a .35 Rem and soon to have a .257 Wby. I like to move them all through the rotation but when it's clobberin' time I pull out the 8mm mag.

I get confused about this, but it is one of the following fer sure:

.17, .22, .25,, .28, .30., .35, ..37, ..40, .41, .45, .50. Or maybe it's 20/16/12? FIIK

223 Remington and the 30-06 Springfield for me.

For Whitetails,

30-06
300 Savage
30-30

All kill the same, with the same hit, at the distances I shoot deer.

Been toying with a .243 but haven't hunted deer with it yet.

I love my 270. It was the first really nice rifle that I owned, and I have killed a chitpot full of deer with it. I can never imagine ever getting rid of it, and I once thought of having it buried with me.......just in case, you know. But, having said that, if I ever decided to downsize and only wanted the bare bones essentials in cartridges, it would be 223, 243, and the 270. If I could only have one centerfire cartridge, it would be the 223, and not because it would cover all my needs, but because it would cover the most important one.......security, in the form of AR rifles.

Now, I shoot the 6.5 Creedmoor, the 308, 22-250, 7-08, 35 Rem, 7X57, and probably a couple of more that I'm forgetting. I sometimes think I love experimenting with different rifles and different cartridges too much, and I probably do. If not for the aspect of the 223 and the AR rifles, I'd be perfectly content with the 243 and nothing else.

3-.270's

4-7mm's

4-.375's