Lone_wolf1966

Another one to consider, close to ones already mentioned, but until the last few years more custom, is the .338-06. Not speaking from personal experience, but I believe this would take down about any NA game. I doesn't have much punch on the shooters end, but on the recievers end.........watch out.

smokechaser

My cabinet's got a remington .300 ultra mag, 2 .300 Winchester Magnums, a 30-06 (modle 700 with the bad safety so it really never gets shot though), a .243 and my pistol .357 magnum. the .300 ultra mag is definently the goto gun.

KodiakArcher

.30-06 custom '96 Mauser
.340 Wby custom West German Mark V
.375 Kodiak custom Model 70 push feed
.450 Alaskan custom Browning '71
.60 Jim Chambers flintlock
but the "go-to" gun when I need meat in the freezer is the .54 Lyman Great Plains percussion rifle. Otherwise, it's bowhunting only.

JamesR

I have the following calibers over 270

7X57
284 Winchester
7mm Remington Magnum
30-30
300 Savage
30-06
30-338
300 Wincheser magnun
8mm-06 AI
338-06
338 Winchester magnum
9.3X62
358 Shooting Times

My go to rifle is my 338-06 which is an old 1917 enfield that has been completely rebuilt by a gunsmith with about 50 years experience under his belt doing these conversions. He is also a very close freind of mine. He once told me that when he was going to the Colarado school of mines for gun smithing that he did not think there was another kind of rifle because he worked on so many enfields, I am sure he was joking but in every joke there has to be a bit of truth. I am sure that I can justify all of my rifles if I try hard enough.

James

hardcorehunter

I have a new Savage accutrigger16BSS .300wsm that does 3 shot 1/4'' groups at 100 yds that I feel is going to be my go for gun on my moose ,caribou ,bear hunt in New Foundland next sept. I also have a German Weatherby .270 mag that is too nice to take out in the mud,blood, and rain, a .338 win mag Savage Weather Warrior that shoots 1/2'' groups that will probably see some action in New Foundland just to break it in on an animal, and a CZ .416 Rigby for Africa someday. Here is my Rare Savage 16BSS. This is a Weather Warrior with a factory laminated stock. Savage only put a few out for a distibutor and you can't buy them at your LGS .I have a Leupold VX II 4-12 on it. Most of the time it's my Hoyt Trykon bow though.

ELKampMaster

223 to 416 Rigby
9mm to 500 S&W

A man with the variety of a full range of weaponryand the option to choose according to the job at hand....

My kinda guy....

hardcorehunter

Thanks. My wife is in to pdog and varmint shooting so I have a large selection of varmint rifles. We have two 22.250's, one .204, two .17hmr's, two .222's , and another .223 as well. Fun to load them up and go pdogin once a year and bring out the arsenal. Plus as the guns get hot we can switch off. We start with the .17 hmr's and work our way up to the 22.250's when all the close ones are dead or scared.

ELKampMaster

p-dogs are great fun (and beneficial to your shooting).

In April-May when we first pull into a dog town, we start out with a 12 gaugeplus a scoped 22LR Autoin a "tag-team" sort of arrangement for close-in-multiple-close-targets-not-yet-educated situations and then as they wise up a little, one of us takes upa scoped AR-15.As they wise up even more, we pull ina scoped bolt .223and then as things really slow down (we've got them well educated)and the ranges increasewe switch overto a 6mm and/or a 270Win depending on wind speed and barreltemperatures.

This all provides some firearm/live targetentertainment for a few outings in the warm Spring months untilsufficient snow melts out of the Colorado mountains sometime in June and then my recreational focus shifts.

We can give a dog town a "PH.D in hunter safety" in about one day.
Go "red mist" club.

early

30-06 is as big as got cuz elk isas big as i go. but i always wanted a 416 rigby, and might get one someday. if i ever do it'll be a ruger77 for controlled feed and reliability. wont have the flat flight of a modern magnum; but ill have thenastalgiai want.

early

ELKampMaster

Au Contrare my friend, check out Barnes #3....