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Main rifle is a 30-06. Current backups are 308 and 7 RM.
Okie John
If Montana had a standing army, a 270 Win with Federal Blue Box 130's would be the standard issue.
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Main rifle is a 270 and I have 2, but the OP said not to use 270, so my main backup would be the 336 30-30. To back it up would be a 12 ga.
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Just "Campfire Riffraff and Trash"
This will be my last post! Flave 1/3/21
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1st String - 280, 7 Wby 2nd String - 308, 300 WSM
Throttle fixes everything. If it doesn't fix the problem, it’ll end the suspense.
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I look at it a bit differently than as a backup rifle. I usually do take two rifles just they are set up differently. One for still hunting, a light rifle topped with a low power scope with a thick post or crosshairs. This rifle will also do any night hog hunting I need to do. Today this is a Midel 7 7-08 topped with an old 3x Weaver. Second rifle is set up with a 3 to 9 power scope and a long action cartridge (currently a 30-06) to shoot the long shots with. Neither is first or second just depends on the job at hand.
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6.5x54 Mannlicher-Schoenauer, the 6.5 Creedmoor of its day. If the Internet had existed back then, World War One might have started even sooner, due to arguments over the 6.5x54 M-S and OBVIOUSLY much more suitable cartridges. Big deal...I note that just after the 7x64 was created by the lord himself WW1 ground to a halt...obviously all were simply dazzled by the excellence.
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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Texas: 6.5x55 CZ 550 American Backup .270 700 ADL Backup to the backup 30-06 Vanguard S2 Synthetic
The above is for everything but Nilgai. For Nilgai the order is reversed.
Don't roll those bloodshot eyes at me.
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I have a pair of rifles set up almost the same - very easy for me to swap from one to the other. Both are Rem 700 CDL's with 6x Leupold scopes. One in 30-06, the other in 25-06.
Some years I hunt more with the 25-06, say when mule deer and antelope are what I seek. And the bigger bore rifle plays a backup role.
Some years I hunt more with the 30-06, perhaps black bear or elk are on the schedule. And the smaller bore rifle plays the backup role.
I like 'em both and have been successful with them both. Am careful to not mix up the ammo!
Guy I like your set-up. Bob
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I have a hard time picturing a scenario where the custom Mod. 70 "Classic Stainless" .338 Winny of mine would fail. But, since about any thing is possible I would grab my wonderful old Mod. 70 Featherweight 30-06 that shoots the 168 grain TTSX bullets very well and dumped a caribou a couple of years ago. When I got the old ought six years ago ThI trust both rifles completely!
I recently put a 3-9 HD SWFA on a Tikka T3X Superlite in 6.5 Creed, if I like the scope as much as I think I will I may put one on the old ought six and save the 3.5-10x40 Leupy as a back up scope.
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A 264 WM is my go to but I can go down to a .223 or up a 35 Whelen with several steps in between.....
An armed member in a country is a citizen, an unarmed member is a subject.
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Savage 11 7-08 up front Savage 99 250 backup
Have fun.....j3
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Primary for many years was a .338win , secondary was a 7-08. They took turns though depending on where I was hunting. If I didn't have moose or elk tags, I took the 7-08. Primary now is a 30R Blaser, secondary is still the 7-08.
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I have a Remington 721 30-06 with a leupold straight six on it. Sighted in with 180 federal premium partition factory ammo that rides the pine every year. I do usually kill a doe antelope with it every year though, just to blow the dust off of it.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Great backup for almost anything! (I have a 722 Remington .257 Roberts with a 6x that I blow the dust off every few years as well.)
Dunno how much big game I've killed here and there with the '06 and 180-grain bullets, but it's worked just fine all over the world....
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
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For medium game (deer, antelope, etc) 243. For coyote or smaller - 204 Ruger. For elk - 30-06. Hope to hunt my 375 H&H one day, and not just shoot it!
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Current pecking order:
1. 8x57is(VZ-24) 2. 257 Roberts(M70) 3. 300 Win Mag(Mk.VII) 4. 270 WCF(M70)
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I don't always shoot Mausers, but when I do...I prefer VZ-24s.
jdi do píči
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For Elk 1st choice - Ruger M77 (tang safety) in 308 Win, 2x7 Redfield, with Nosler 165 Partitions Backup - Ruger M77 MKII 7x57 2x7 Leopold, with 160 grain Nosler Partitions (NOTE - I could easily reverse these choices with no concern)
Mule Deer 1st choice - Ruger M77 MKII 7x57, 2x7 Leopold, with 160 grain Nosler Partitions Backup - Peruvian sporterized Brno made 98 Mauser 7x57, 2x7 Bushnell, 160 grain Nosler Partitions
Black Tail (in thick cover) 1st choice - Marlin 336 in 35 Rem with 200 grain Rem Corelocks or 30-30 with 170 grain Rem Corelocks Backup - Either of my 7x57 rifles with 140 grain Partitions.
CJ
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