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To cover most of the bigger animals in alaska what caliber would you choose?
375 Ruger ?
338 Win?
300 UMag?
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.375 H&H! If you a hand loader, for a few bucks you can make it an AI. Then you have both a close range stopping rifle and a 500+ yard Caribou rifle …..with the proper bullets! A pretty good “do it all” cartridge! You’ll thank me later! 😉 memtb
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I would worry less about the caliber or chambering and use a premium bullet in the rifle I was most comfortable with and with which I was most confident. If that’s a 308 or 7x57 so be it. If that’s a 375H&H so be it.
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the caliber would be 30 caliber the cartridge would be just the simple 30-06 because ammo is so easy to find , but i hope i never have to only have one cartridge / rifle
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.30 but I've always lusted for a .375 Did carry one for 4 seasons on USFS trail crew. It's nice that the 270 gr in .375 has the same trajectory as the .30-180.  PS - I've made it a pact with the big bears not to go around trying to poke holes in them if they aren't trying to do the same to me. For 54 years, the pact has held, so I've never had the "need" for the big bore. Close Encounters of the Turd Kind don't count as "need". I can get scared chitless with a smaller bore!
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Life's too short to live with only one rifle. If you’re bored…..a lifetime is much longer 😂! Been a one rifle/cartridge hunter for 42 years, 32 years with the same combo! The calibers have been the same for 42, in 1990 I got a rifle and cartridge upgrade! memtb
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You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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Only one... ought six hands down
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Definitely don’t have just one.
But what I was trying to get at is one caliber just for Alaska!
Moose Bears etc.
Too old and outta shape to hunt sheep.
I have a.338 Federal but it’s blued.
Thinking about a stainless rifle, reliable weather resistant.
Have always been intrigued by the Ruger 375.
Have a stainless 300 UM that hammers everything I’ve ever pointed it at.
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Only one... ought six hands down A good cartridge no doubt! I picked “one” that would work well in Alaska, as well as legal for the big stuff in most of Africa! More than necessary for most of America…..but, ther is no such thing as “overkill”! 😉 memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
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From my current rifles, it would be my Model 70 Classic stainless cerakoted in a Mcmillan Edge stock chambered in 338-06. Top one in the photo. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/z5baHaz.jpg) Love the looks of the 338-06. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/3c4g4P6.jpg)
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Hell with just 1, but .35 Whelen fills the bill.
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300 RUM because it's the best , why is it the best ?
because it can also be a .....
30-378 Wby
300 Norma Mag
300 Wby
300 PRC
300 Win Mag
300 WSM
300 H&H
30-06
308 Win
and all others not mentioned, including wildcats ...
but the best things about it ? it's phenomenally accurate and easy to handle even with heavy 230-250 gr bullets loaded hot without needing a muzzle brake, kills far better up close and further out than anything in 7mm, 270, 6.5mm ever did or ever will .....
the 300 RUM effectively negates the need or usefullness of anything in those calibers . FACT
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From my current rifles, it would be my Model 70 Classic stainless cerakoted in a Mcmillan Edge stock chambered in 338-06. Top one in the photo. Love the looks of the 338-06. That top one is a very nice looking rifle
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[quote=hikerbum][quote=CRS]From my current rifles, it would be my Model 70 Classic stainless cerakoted in a Mcmillan Edge stock chambered in 338-06.
Top one in the photo.
I have that same setup except a standard fill McMillan and not cerekoted, Yet.
Very handy and capable rifle.
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"Caliber" would be .308, chambering in something like 30-06 or 300 Win Mag.
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From my current rifles, it would be my Model 70 Classic stainless cerakoted in a Mcmillan Edge stock chambered in 338-06. Top one in the photo. Love the looks of the 338-06. Nice rifles!
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For Alaska, one rifle only, I would choose the .375 Ruger. My go-to two rifle battery is the 30-06 and 375 Ruger anyway, and as mentioned above, the 30-06 180 and 270 375 in handloads have practically the same trajectory. For the lower 48 states, 30-06 is the choice.
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One rifle for everything would be .375. My other choices 30-06 and .338wm.
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