Best calibre/ammo combo
 

If you could only have one rifle and one choice of ammo what would it be for big game?

Welcome aboard Huntnmachine! I don't particularly care for the .30-06 but for the "one gun" arsenal, the '06 would be hard to beat!

Thanks for the welcome, I used a 308 for years and it did everything I needed it to do but for some reason I have become a speed freak and now own a 270 wsm and a 300 win mag, to answer my own question I would probably take my 270 wsm using Winchester accubond 140 gainers as my "one gun".
It has tons of speed and energy to take out our Canadian Black Bear and Moose

Second vote for the good old .30/06. More than enough power to down ANY game on this continent. For the people who don't load their own ammo, factory ammo available pretty much ANYWHERE in the world with many loaded options. Can be had in almost every platform of rifle made. If you reload, it can make either a scary good varmint rifle with little 95 grain bullets or a Moose gun with 210 grain bullets. And everything in between. Out to 500-600 yards, it will kill anything just as dead as any .300 win mag without breaking your wallet in half with every shot.

7MM RM with 139gr. Hornady SST

338 RUM...160's for the small stuff and 300's for the big stuff...

I couldn't imagine just having 1...?

If you're new ish to rifle hunting... consider this...
Buy the rifle/caliber you plan to use most now/in the near future, ie. if you plan to hunt local whitetails for the next 5 years to rest of your life, well maybe a 270 etc... is what you need.

Down the road if you go elk hunting or moose, etc... in the future you'll probably be able to pick up another rifle that may be more appropriate for that game.

If I had just 1 rifle for NA or the World it might be a 375H&H or 458 Lott, but I really don't want to shoot that on deer year in year out.

So rather than trying to pick the best 1 rifle for everything, I'd focus on what you plan to hunt this year, next year, within 5 years.

Many hunters would love to hunt ELK "one day" and bought a 300win mag and will never end up hunting an elk.

if you are talking a do it all gun for everything thats non dangerous in north america ive always heard the 3006 is about the perfect caliber.....personally id prefer either the 308 or 7mm08 though

+1

Excellent advise !!! :wave:

Just one rifle, really just one? To hunt what with?
If your just talking white tail deer I my self would go with a 243, If I was forced to buy ammo I'd have some Remington 100gr core locks for deer and for coyotes I be looking at some thing from 70 to 100 grain hollow point.


:D Al