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Say your job is hunting for a living, limited to any and all North American game. Canada to Mexico and everything in between. But you could only choose 2 calibers for your hunting career. What 2 do you pick and why? Don't need two. .308Win will do it all.
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.223 & .30-06
Lots of factory ammo, plenty of power w/o a ton of recoil. For the win!
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Since the OP says hunting for a living, one has to assume they would be filmed in a variety of hunting scenarios and locations. For me, it’s a good 12 gauge and a .338 Win Mag. Can always kill smaller stuff with a big rifle, even load it down. But you can’t hunt waterfowl on camera with a rifle. Or turkeys, in some places.
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Since the OP says hunting for a living, one has to assume they would be filmed in a variety of hunting scenarios and locations. For me, it’s a good 12 gauge and a .338 Win Mag. Can always kill smaller stuff with a big rifle, even load it down. But you can’t hunt waterfowl on camera with a rifle. Or turkeys, in some places. OP still hasn’t clarified, but you are right – he did not specify big game. He did specify caliber, so I’ll change my answer to 0.729” and 0.308” ... In all seriousness, it makes a difference whether one is guiding or simply hunting for video/magazine. If I’m guiding on the peninsula and I’m backing somebody on big bears, I want a 375 or larger; If I’m hunting for media, I could easily abide by just about anything in this thread.
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.22 Rimfire for squirrel and rabbits.
30-06 for Moose and all smaller hoofed animals and alligator.
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7x57 for the light/medium
35 Whelen for the medium/heavy
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"...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867
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280 Rem for 300 + yards and 45/70 out to 300 yds - can shoot light 45 cal bullets at slow speeds for little stuff and heavy lead for any thing with bad intentions.
Enough already, just shoot it!
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It isn't energy that kills, its holes.
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metric I’ll go with 6.5CM and 9.3x62
If Standard. 270 Win and 338 win mag
But 223 and 06 do seem to cover everything
All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
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7-08 and 338-06, assuming a reloader..
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.22 LR and .308 Win.
Two good rifles in each. CZ 452 and 457 in .22LR, Ruger KM77 MKII and Nosler 48 in .308. Properly scoped with fixed 4x-6x scopes.
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I’d just get one .30-06 and call it a day.
If ifs and buts were like candy and nuts, it would be Christmas every day.
“The .30-06 is never a mistake.” - Col. Townsend Whelan
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If money/ ammo availability were no issue 6mm creedmoor 300 win mag Both twisted fast I currently own neither of those 
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AR 15 in .223, and a .308 bolt gun.
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30-06 and 375 H&H or 375 Ruger
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Survival situation. 12g and a 30-06
The way I think the Op meant it. 223 and 30-06.
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Probably my best pick also... but then I'd cheat.... because I shoot a 223, 22.250 and a 243 A LOT.... and I pretty much handload EVERYTHING... Then I couldn't leave the 6.5 x 55s and the 7 x 57s Alone either...
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