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I've already have two if your talking this continent.

Wood/Blue Remington 700 Mtn 30-06 Sprg w/Leupold VX-III 2.5x8x36

Kimber 84M Select Claro 308 Win w/Leupold VX-III 2.5x8x36

270 win or 30-06 gets my vote.

7MM Winchester Short Magnum spitting 160 Gr. Accubonds.

JM

Everything? ................As in "everything",worldwide?

375H&H.

Rifle? Pre 64 M70.

I'm in his camp. Tho it might be a Partition or tsx.

If one is including African DG then to me it's a .375 Ruger or H&H. For one it's the minimum anyway in most (if not all places) for Buff and such so that's that. They also shoot flat enough to handle any sane shot with the right ammo.

Now, if one isn't trying to stretch to include thick skinned DG then it opens up quite a bit. Personally, as long as a bit of recoil isn't a deal breaker, a fast .33 is tough to beat. When I got my .340 the general idea was that I'm not good enough to outshoot the trajectory of the 210gr loads nor am I going to feel the least bit undergunned against anything in the Western hemisphere (and precious little anywere else for that matter) with 250-275gr bullets and 4000+ ftlbs of ME. Various other strong mid-bores follow the same line of thought.

Custom Marlin guide gun in 45/70 or Browning BLR in 358 winchester not sure which one I'd pick.

Three choices: 30-06, 9.3X62, .375H&H

I'd probably go with an ABolt SS in 30-06. Haven't seen an inaccurate ABolt and hard to beat the '06.

With that said, my only rifle is an M70 Extreme Weather in 300 WSM. Was a good deal.

Used a 7mm RM for 20 eyars for everything and it worked fine. "Everything" being light varminting to elk.

It will likely be the last to go.

06 or whelen

Well I started off with a .270 Winchester back around 1960 then moved up to the 30-06, which did a good job for the most part. However, going out West I wanted a little more distance and went to the .300 Win mag and stayed there for 20 years or more. It killed all the small to medium animals using 165 grain bullets (Nosler Partition) and the big animals got a taste of the 180 grain Nosler's, all except the big bears. I went back to the Winchester 220 grain Silver Tips, which shot very accurate out of that Belgium made Browning rifle.

375 h&h takes you to africa and alaska and in your own back yard done!!!!!

That's easy...22LR.

If the rifle was strictly for field use then 300 Win or 300 Wby.

But like to play around at the range with different loads and fiddle about with reduced loads so for that plus field use. the 375 H&H.

Don't tell me you've finally given up on hte .270?

John

Kimber 8400 Montana in 300 WSM and a Zeiss Conquest 3-9 in Talley LW mounts spittin a 168 gr TTSX.

everything i hunt...6.5 swede

7x57....duh.....




Ingwe

375 H&H.