Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles What is your go to rifle ????

Could easily get down nothing else.

.308.

My Montana 7mm-08 gets the nod most of the time.

I had a gunshop and would grab an armfull of rifles when I went hunting, at last count I think I've killed deet with 22 different cartridges and quite a few more different rifles as some were chambered for the same cartridge..

Now it pretty much depends on the game, terrain and hunting style. No really favorite as all my guns are fitted to me and I'm comfortable with all of them.

For years it was a Remington 700 .280 Rem in a TI stock taking whitetail, muleys, hogs, coyotes, and elk.
My last muley and elk were taken with a ULA in 300 Win. I hunt the West and prefer light weight rifles.

I don't hunt big game any longer so my "go to" rifle is more suited to varmints, it generalliy resides in a soft case on the back seat of my pick-up.
Cooper model 21 Classic in 223 Rem with a Leupold VX-2, 4-12 with holdover dots.

For me its going to be any number of rifles chambered in 7MM-08, this being the current favorite.

I make a conscious effort to get blood on any new rifle I acquire. I have 3 that are still virgins. Need prairie dogs.

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My go to rifle used to be my 30-06, but that has changed to my pre64 300 H&H.

700 KS in ‘06 with Talleys and 2.5-8 Loop B&C.

Armalite 7.62x39 loaded with Fusion Ammo.

I don’t think that you or most folks would be interested in mine, though it’s worked quite well for me for all big game and the occasional varmint, from heavy timber to wide open areas of Wyoming! Easily good to 800 yards and beyond (energy and velocity) for big game, though my personal limit is 600 yards in ideal conditions! One bullet, one zero, one cartridge.....it simply works! memtb

Depends on the circumstances of what and where.
Cartridge Make
22LR Tikka TX1
22LR Savage Anschutz
223 Remington Tikka T3X
243 Winchester Remington 700
6.5 Creedmoor Tikka T3X
7mm Rem Mag Stiller Predator
308 Win Sig Cross
308 Win Remington 700 M40A1
300 H&H Remington 700
8x68S Steyr CLII SX
8x68S Remington 700
358 Winchester Winchester 70
375 H&H Steyr CLII SX
6.5x55/8x68S/375 H&H Mauser M03

Chucks its my 700 in .243
Deer its my 35 rem 760
Got a couple others for out of state stuff.
Maybe this yr.

My go to is my left hand tikka t3 270wsm. I’ll play around with some of my other stuff but on important hunts (I have never hunted dangerous game) I grab that rifle

Barrett in 270 win with nosler 130gr. partitions and 60 gr. of hogden 4831 done. the only diff. in the last 40+ years is the rifle. Elk and mule deer and whitetail. Most years all 3.

Savage 99 in 300Savage

I've been playing with a few calibres over the past 10 years but there are a couple of favourites that I keep coming back to when hunting deer, pigs and foxes.

Ruger Hawkeye in .257 Roberts - Loopy 2.5-8x36

Mauser M12 in 6.5x55 - Swaro 3-9x36

Ruger 1A in 7x57 - Loopy 6x36


But the 7x57 Number 1 would be the one that I would keep till last.

Same here, though I rotate others in.

aw jeez.... just one...no way.....come on guys.....thats not who we are here on the "fire"...ok then..... LH rem 700 25.06....damn Parkinsons is going to put a for sale sign on it too soon................happy new year to all

Marlin 336 in .30-30. Old gun, early 50s made.