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I own more 30 cal than anything else, with .284 in second place.
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I have rifles in .223, .224, .257, .270, 7mm, .308, and .375 calibers. I have more rifles chambered in .30 caliber than any of the others, so I guess that's my caliber with my .300 Weatherby being my favorite cartridge.
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I suppose I'm a .30 guy based on numbers in my safe. I shoot ,30-06s, .300 savages, .30-40 krags, .30-30s, 7.62X54rs
and if I had to go down to one it would be a .30-06.
But I'm an equal opportunity gun buyer!
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Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Bear, Elk....It's what's for dinner.
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Had a buddy that was pretty proud of his 7mm mag. One day we took the four wheelers out in the hills and sat down to have some lunch and shoot the sheit. As we were sitting there I finished my pop so I jumped on the quad and ran it down the mountain and set it up on the hillside so we could shoot at it. When I came back he let fly with his beloved bolt action magnum and hit 6" low and right. He felt like that was a hit on a deer so he was tickled with himself. I slid the 99 out of the guncase and got on the ground with my back up against the tire on the atv and laid the rifle across the sticks. I held 17" over and touched it off. That can went 30' straight up like a rocket launch. I got up, slid the rifle back in the case and that's the last I heard about the beloved 7mm magnum. Lasered 425 yards. Until I got this one I'd hunt a different gun every season, but this one keeps killing deer and bear, so for me, make mine a Savage 99 in .284. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/ux316kt.jpg)
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I haven’t had time to try the 308 I got from you yet. Maybe it will stop raining soon. It will be a great piney woods rifle. Wanna sell the 284?? 😁
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I haven’t had time to try the 308 I got from you yet. Maybe it will stop raining soon. It will be a great piney woods rifle. Wanna sell the 284?? 😁 Uuuuuuuum, no. I've got three of em and they're staying. I had a chance to buy another locally the other day but the guy was stuck at $1000 and I wasn't there.
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Depending on distance and game... My 4 below covers anything that walks
250ai - probably most efficient cartridge ever created. 80ttsx @ 3600fps
6.5swede - 120ttsx @ 2850fps
280ai - second most efficient cartridge ever created 140NPT @ 3150
300wsm - all the power you ever need in a short action. 165etip
But if I had to choose just one.... It would be the 280ai
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“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Posted by Brad.
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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
Well, going by barrel count now, I must be a 7 mm Cal. man. I now own MORE rifles barrelled w/.284 dia.> NEXT is .270s, & > ONLY Two, 30 Cal. I honestly don’t rate them (Cartridges) # 1, 2, 3 etc. I CAN make cases for Every One being my ONLY rifle. OTOH I don’t have A favorite. There are times it’s very hard to choose which I’m going to hunt. Jerry
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I guess if you pinned me down it'd be the .284 (7mm Mashburn Super), 338 (338 Win Mag) and .358's (35 Newton and Whelen).. Those three calibers are probably my picks if I am spending serious time hunting..
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.30/06. I have a strange affection for the old girl.
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If going by numbers of rifles, I guess .308 caliber would win for me, but for the last ten years or so I've had a lot of fun with .243 and .224.
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Gay 270 Win and 338-06AI.
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Could work for me. Love my 9.3x62
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257Roberts and 35Whelen. Others come and go.
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