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Whatever is to hand and ready to go, but I gotta say I’ve never warmed to the .243 (still ownedafter 40 years) or 7 Mag. (Sold after 10 rounds). As a former gunsmith I got to shoot a lot of both calibers, and I still don’t like these two!

Hard to beat the .30-06, but I really like my .260 and .338wm also. I’ve a few in betweeners , also....

25.06 and a .260

i'm a .30 guy who also carries a 444

Have/Had .224, .243, .257, .277, .284 and .30 caliber.

For my hunting I like the .22 and 6mm stuff with the .224 doing most of the killing.

Messing with a .284 again right now. Doubt I ever return to a 30 caliber save for a 30-30 that dad has and will be mine some day.

if I could only have one it would be 7mm. Given a second pick I'd take .224

Currently and for the past 20 plus years, these are our “only” hunting calibers. Same rifles, same bullet brand ( changed style as technology improved the bullet), same scope, same zero’s! Mine a .375. Wife a .338 “ One planet, one rifle.....for everything”! memtb

I am with you 100%, do not prefer the 243 or 7 mag.

I like my 222, 22-250, 6.5 Creed(long range playing), 7-08's(aka 270 short), 300 H&H, 338-06, 9.3x64, 375H&H and 404 Jeffery.

7mm (7mm-08) for the last 20 years. But always keep a 300 win mag for when I need the extra horsepower. Finding I need the extra far less than I used to think I did.

I like the sales on .30 caliber bullets so I use .30 caliber rifles, mostly, I have a .308, a 30-06, and a .300 Winnie. But I also like lightweight so I have a .325 WSM Kimber, although I might trade it off for something in 30 caliber.

I like and use CALIBERS 6mm, 6.5, 277, 284, 30, & 323.

I have MORE 277s & 284s than the others. I've been giving this thread some consideration.

I 'could' live, hunt,& be happy with 7mm RM or 30-06 the rest of my life. So there, you have TWO.


Jerry

I hunt mostly with a 35 whelen but have more 30s than anything else.

I hunt mostly with a 400 Whelen but like a lot of the less known or less popular rounds, 17 Rem, 222, 220 Swift, 6x222, 25 Rem, 257 Rob, 256 Mannlicher, 300 H&H, 8x56 MS, 35 Whelen, 9.3x57.

After pulling the trigger on a 270 for over 50 years...being able to buy ammo anywhere from the Pleasure Palaces in the Zona Rosa across the River, to any gas station, diner or C Store in deer country, the surgery I had at VA Dallas in '06 to dig a fist sized tumor out of my neck and wrecked my shooting shoulder in the process, has finally caught up with me.

So I am in the middle of test driving some possible replacements in another 6.5 Swede in a T3, a M70 XTR 7x57 aka the 7-08's grandaddy and will spend all this year also downloading a 270 to see which one caliber will live with me the rest of my life, along with it's sisters and brothers in Sunday Go to Meeting dress up to something that I can paddle the jon boat with in the swamps in East Texas.

I'd never owned a 7mm before this last year, shot some 7Rmg's and thought they were a little too brisk for not that much more than I was getting out of a same length barreled 270. The old M70 Mauser has made a believer of me at 200 yards on paper for extended load ladders and such. The 1st T3 Swede was my go to when I got out of Rehab in '08 but I never shot anything out of it except 120gr'ers either. So that classic phrase of "We'll See What Happens NOW said the Blind Man" comes to mind. One caliber to feed is lot more easy if it'll do everything I want out of it...and an old friend has been using a 7-08 on his last 2 trips across the pond veery succesfully enough to make me go hmmm??
Ron

Verhoo

As for down loading the 270, I started off loading JOC's load w/130 gr bullets. 48-49 IMR 4064 - vel @ 2900 fps. Very accurate.

Sorry about your physical limitations.

Good Luck

Jerry

For me, there are 3 calibers that I am passionate about. I'm passionate to the point that I don't really care about the other calibers, I don't care that they work, I don't need them. I am passionate about the 30-06, 338WM and 375 H&H. I know intellectually others will work just as well, but these are the ones that I KNOW I can rely on under what ever situation comes along.

30 cal

Me too. That includes 7.21 & 7.62

Of all the rifles in the safes, More 270 Wins than anything, as I recall. But short actions seem to be getting hunted the most these days. 260s seem to be grabbed the most with 7mm-08s and 308s close behind. The 300 mags and .338 didn't get carried a single hunt this past Fall.

Never could pick just one.

I like them all, but put the most meat on the table with 30-06.

I own a 30.06, 7mm08, 308, 300 H&H mag, and 222. I use the 30.06 about 95% of the time for hunting.