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17 HMR.
243/6mm of some sort
30-06.
Really wouldn't need the '06.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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44 Magnum
260 Remington
30/06
Harry
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22LR
257 Roberts
300 Win mag
I would be comfortable hunting almost anything with those 3.
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Posts: 14,179 Likes: 1
Campfire Outfitter
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Campfire Outfitter
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Well we're Green and we're Gold, and we play better when it's cold. All us Cheese heads have our favorite superstar. We love Brett Favre.
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22 LR - my most shot cartridge, I shoot a few thousand rounds a year of it. Inexpensive, and puts a smile on my face.
223 - Varmints through wolves. Accurate, easy to shoot and inexpensive.
30/06 - Wolves through big game.
Due to aging I am paring my rifles back - guess what I am paring them back to.
drover
223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.
24hourcampfire.com - The site where there is a problem for every solution.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 56,166 Likes: 14 |
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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From the the rifles I now own:
.250 Savage
6.5 Creedmoor
.270 Win.
I only hunt deer, and the occasional predator that tries to get at my chickens. If I had to choose just one cartridge it would be the .257 Roberts.
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243 Win
270 Win
338 Win Mag
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Campfire Regular
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Campfire Regular
Joined: Mar 2015
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Standard
223
6.5CM
308
Varmint
223
6mm CM
308
Off shore and home
223
7mm RM twist right
375 H&H
It gets harder and harder to justify a big gun for me. A not so hot loaded 300 win mag worked great on a handful of Asian buff in AU.
Last edited by smallfry; 05/30/23.
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From my current inventory and where I live and hunt. [img] https://imgur.com/a/2LxZl[/img] Tikka 223 ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/54ILjBy.jpg) Tikka 6.5 ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/AhB16jA.jpg) Tikka 30/06 ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/FtTQjNZ.jpg)
Last edited by Dre; 05/31/23.
All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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From my current inventory and where I live and hunt.
Tikka 223
Tikka 6.5
Tikka 30/06 That’s about perfect. I’ve daydreamed about keeping my 2 tikka’s, 223 and 243. Then add a .30 cal like 308, 30-06 or 300.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Most likely to be using a 6.5 Swede, 308, or 30-06.
For my use, the guns are more different than the cartridges.
223/22-250 fast twist
308/30-06
That's 2 choices each for a total of 2.
Mostly hunt deer, shoot targets of opportunity.
Any one of the 4 would do everything needed.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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.257 Roberts
.308 Win
7mm Weatherby
Life Member NRA, RMEF, American Legion, MAGA. Not necessarily in that order.
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For me (IF I had to)
.22LR: Small game and Practice
.223: Varmints and HD
.300WM: Load it down to .308 level for whitetails, hogs, load it up for the occasional elk hunt.
“Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.”
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.270, 7mm Rem. Mag., 300 Win. Mag.
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning will take care of itself.
Coach Bryant.
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Well, based on my most recent acquisition of modern rifles, they'd be...
6.5 CM
7mm PRC
308 Win
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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For me and my hunting needs (eastern woodlands and pastures): .22 Hornet (Win M54 K-Hornet) 6.5x55 (Ruger#1) .30-06 (Springfield NRA Sporter) I could slide through the remainder of my Golden Years of hunting with those three cartridges/guns, but could substitute my .223 Low Wall for the Hornet if needs be, and .30-30 Winchester bolt gun or .30-40 Krag for either of the other two if I had to. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/NncXKcSl.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/PAkprKkl.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/sHPfCyLl.jpg) Sorry for inclusion of specific guns, but I feel the platform is as important as the cartridge - can't have one without the other, each cartridge compliments its gun and vice-versa.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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Campfire Regular
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Uh the OP asked about centerfires. Lots of other guys mentioned LR too so not picking on anybody.
I am continually astounded at how quickly people make up their minds on little evidence or none at all.
Jack O'Connor
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