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So how looney is this:
restricts himself to three rifles, of which
1. the primary is a short magnum
2. the backup is a 243
3. the just because is a 223
4. #4 comes and goes but always leaves for another #4

I could roll with that if the short mag is a 6.5 or 7.

My battery is similar - 280ai, 260, 243. The little guns may eventually identify as their respective Creedmoor counterparts when the time comes to rebarrel.

Yeah I could easily make it with 3 rifles, if one has to be a short magnum my choice would be .300 WSM...I dont hunt varmints anymore so I have no use for a centerfire .22 cal but I would most certainly need a .22lr for Squirrel hunting and a straight wall cartridge of some sort to hunt Ohio's gun season.....I think for me 5 rifles, 3 shotguns and a muzzleloader would be better though...Ha!.....Hb

how looney is this? ......just because

restricts himself to three rifles, of which

1. the primary is a short magnum = 350 WSM/Sambar
2. the backup is a 243 = ok....shooting 95 Nosler BT's or 70 Nosler BT's depending on hunt
3. the just because is a 223 = ok as long as it's twisted 1-8" or faster
4. #4 comes and goes but always leaves for another #4 = for me it would be a good 30-30...that would probably stay more than go:)

thanks, Tom

6.5x55, 223, .22. If allowed, I would add a shotgun

I follow the logic, and won't disagree, but what fun would that be?
Rick

'06, 7x57, .250-3000.

I like three, but could reduce to two. .22 RF, .223 Rem., and my .375AI or my wife’s .338WM. I could drop the .223 Rem. The .22RF could be used for small to medium game, the bigger rifles for small game and varmints with cast bullets, or jacketed or mono bullets for all big game ( Whitetails thru the bigger stuff)! So.....if forced, I could go to one! memtb

I suppose you mean three center fire rifles. At my advanced age, my identical accurate rifles in .308 and .243 each loaded up or down, will do anything I need to do. Add a .223, and life will be easier. Then I must have a .22 RF and a couple of shotguns.

Jack

Very sensible battery.

I could do about all I need to do with one Center fire rifle and one rimfire. I'd take a 30/06 and a 22LR.

I have too many different types of hunting to confine myself to three. But I probably could get away with my 6.5X55 Swede and .22 LR. I'm just glad that I don't have to.

I don't have thousands and thousands of dollars tied up in my collection my primary is a Savage 111FL in the gay .270 followed by a sporterized 8x57 Turkish Mauser. My small guns would be my 2 Marlins in 357/44mag.
Throw in a 1950's Mossberg .22 ,and a few of their pump shotguns and I'm ready. All in we're probably under $2000 outlay over the years.
I do have the POF 308 AR that was a gift, but don't really think of it as a hunting rifle at +12# scoped,bipod,Sling,full magazine. I have taken it, but it's not going to be first choice due to it's heft. Its more of a range, steel,target banging, impact thereapy device.
I would like to get a long range bolt action rifle to play beyond 1000 yards, and a smaller rifle in .223 either another are or a bolt action. But really is I don't get enough trigger time as it is.

I've taken moose in Saskatchewan and elk in Wyoming with my older Savage 99 in .308 shooting plain old 180 grain Core-lokt ammo. None got away.

Sherwood

7mm-08
223 Rem
22LR

That’ll do the job

223
6.5 Creed
30-06

I've got more than three but if three was it:

30-06/308
6.5x55
243

I only load one bullet weight in each rifle but with these three I could do 55gr bullet's up to 200gr bullet's and handle anything in N. America.

Mine 3 rifle battery is pretty simple because I do not hunt big-game any more, the great majority of my shooting is ground squirrels (thousands of rounds annually), prairie dogs, and coyotes, and paper targets.
All I require is for my centerfires to be capable of consistent 1/2" - 3/4" groups at 100 yds and the rimfire to be capable of 1/2" to 3/4" groups at 50 yards.

22 L.R.
223 Rem
243 Winchester

All bolt actions.

drover

.22-250, 25/06 or .270, and .300WM....Worked most of my life..

Three rifles?!

I thought this was about three SAFES!😀