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I'm impressed with the folks that can answer with just one cartridge chambering...

I have a tough time finding one I don't like to shoot...

as a friend of mine said to me once.. " I love all rifles.. I just like some more than I like others is all..."


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Posts: 9316 | Location: Between Confusion and Lunacy ( Portland OR & San Francisco CA) | Registered: 12 September 2007Reply With Quote
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9,3x63 Hvergang!

is there really a cartridge with that name? if so, i just have to get one.

to stay on-topic, i would really like to get a .338-06
 
Posts: 930 | Location: Norway | Registered: 31 March 2007Reply With Quote
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My choice is the 9.3x62 because it´s versatile, historical, easy to load and just cool Cool


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Posts: 2213 | Location: Finland | Registered: 02 May 2003Reply With Quote
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I would go with the 30/06 or my 270.
 
Posts: 2209 | Location: Delaware | Registered: 20 December 2002Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by seafire2:
I'm impressed with the folks that can answer with just one cartridge chambering...

I have a tough time finding one I don't like to shoot...

as a friend of mine said to me once.. " I love all rifles.. I just like some more than I like others is all..."


I answered .270 and it isn't because I don't like or use the other calibers to choose from. I picked that caliber because it works for all the hunting I want to do. I could have chose from the many others but the .270 was my first love. I may have wandered every now and then but I keep coming back to the .270 Win.
 
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This is alot harder than I thought. I can narrow it down to 2 medium bores that would make me happy for the rest of my life. 30-06 and/or the 35 Whelen.
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Posts: 478 | Location: Central Indiana | Registered: 22 February 2005Reply With Quote
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The choice is simple: 30-06
Versatility: Big enough for all NA game and yet can be reloaded for the small stuff, too. No other rifle has such a wide range of commercially available ammo. For those who reload, the bullet and powder choices are enormous. If a backwoods store has any ammo for sale at all, it will have 30-30 and '06 ammo. Although I'd hate to have to choose only one, the versatility of the '06 makes its choice compelling.


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7-08
 
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Make mine Rigby. Cool Oops, forgot which forum. 280 or 06.


I agree - 275 Rigby


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Posts: 933 | Location: Casa Grande, AZ | Registered: 11 June 2005Reply With Quote
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animals up to elk size would be my 7-08 REM.
animals up to elk size would be one of my 7X57mm's.......... OOPs! ".275 Rigby's"!


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Posts: 4386 | Location: New Woodstock, Madison County, Central NY | Registered: 04 January 2005Reply With Quote
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My choice is the 9.3x62 because it´s versatile, historical, easy to load and just cool Cool

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Posts: 745 | Location: NE Oklahoma | Registered: 05 October 2006Reply With Quote
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Do they still make anything but the -06?
 
Posts: 1615 | Location: South Western North Carolina | Registered: 16 September 2005Reply With Quote
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My favorit is 9,3x62 , works on moose, red deer,fellow deer, roe deer , and on wild bore!
 
Posts: 147 | Location: Sweden | Registered: 23 March 2008Reply With Quote
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Because I live in Alaska, 35 Whelen
If I did not live in Alaska, 30-06


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Posts: 6652 | Location: Wasilla, Alaska | Registered: 22 February 2005Reply With Quote
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35 Whelen. Light rifle, hits hard, accurate, easy to load for, lots of bullets....aaggghhhh thats goes for all the others as well I guess Big Grin

Anyway..I just plain LIKE my 35 Whelen thumb


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Posts: 1880 | Location: Southern Coast of Norway. | Registered: 02 June 2000Reply With Quote
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Do they still make anything but the -06?

I think the 7x57 is still being made. hillbilly
 
Posts: 1374 | Location: New Zealand | Registered: 10 February 2005Reply With Quote
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450 Bushmaster? Almost like a good 'ole 45-70. Big Grin

Seriously...35 Whelen for out to 150.


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Posts: 2598 | Location: Missouri | Registered: 29 March 2006Reply With Quote
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Chalk up another vote for 7mm-08 Rem. Mine, in Rem. 700 SPs DM, dropped two deer this fall (we have a doe season). Plus, pussycat-like recoil and huge bullet availability are great too.

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30-06 Mauser
 
Posts: 91 | Location: Norway | Registered: 03 March 2005Reply With Quote
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For me............35 whelen thumb
 
Posts: 813 | Location: Wexford PA, USA | Registered: 18 July 2002Reply With Quote
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Will the 6.5X50 Jap semi-rimmed count for a rimless cartridge????

Other wise I'll have to back the 35 Whelen as well!


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Posts: 162 | Location: Lincoln, NE U.S.A. | Registered: 07 February 2004Reply With Quote
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I like several ... 6mm Rem, 308 Win, 30-06, 338-06, and the 9,3x62.

Up to 200 yards or so my favorite would have to be the 9,3x62. Have taken White Tails, Impala, Warthog, Blue Wildebeast, Kudu, Zebra, and US feral pigs with it. Only animal that was not a "dead right there (DRT)" was the Kudu who obviously had not read "The Perfect Shot."

Incredible to see an 800 pound Zebra drop straight down on its knees, or a 200+ pound pig literally knocked over in its tracks.

Just an amazingly effective cartridge while destroying little edible meat!


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Posts: 6199 | Location: Charleston, WV | Registered: 31 August 2002Reply With Quote
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No contest for best all around: .30-06.

But for regular hunting of bigger or DG: 9.3x62mm.


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Posts: 13720 | Location: New England | Registered: 06 June 2003Reply With Quote
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Farmer John: You forgot crows! Man is the 9.3x62 lethal on crows...works well on red fox and eland too!


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How about the old .35 Newton?

The .270 win and the .3006 are my most trusted.

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Posts: 3082 | Location: Northern Nevada & Northern Idaho | Registered: 09 April 2005Reply With Quote
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.270 Winchester if you handload, 30/06 if you don't.

Todays modern bullets have made the .270 Winchester an almost perfect caliber for North America. I see no difference between a 180 grain bullet that loses almost half its weight upon expansion vs. a modern 140 grain bullet that retains nearly 100% of its weight. If handloading, I find the .270 to be a superior round to the 30/06. The 30/06 shooting a 180 grain bullet at 2750 fps is no impressive number at all. One can load a 140 grain Barnes TSX over 3000 fps in the .270 Win with accuracy and that combination has great SD, BC and is flying nearly 300 fps faster than the 180 gr. 30/06. 300 fps is a significant velocity difference and that load in the .270 Win is an exceptionally deadly round out to 350 yards.

There is alot of hype on magnum calibers but unless one gets into 3200-3300 velocity range with a 180 grain bullet, I see no use in punishing the shoulder and nerves with the brutal recoil of something like a .300 Weatherby. Besides, how many rifleman are truly capable to shoot their high recoiling guns well enough to take a 400+ yard shot? I am not talking about the 10 pound, bull barrelled gun sporting a tri-pod and 20X computer scope that long range shooters use. I am talking about your typical sporting rifle or mountain rifle chambered in a .300 magnum or .338 magnum. The latter having about 3 times the perceived recoil of a .270 and the .300 magnum having an extremely spine chilling, snappy kick.
 
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The RUMs , 338 rum, the 300 RUM NEITHER one of them has that ring on THose shells but I guess they concider them Magnums So I would vote for the 30/06.
 
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Of course I am going to say 270win ! Its the best !


Beefa270: Yes I really love my 270win
 
Posts: 114 | Location: Southern Sydney Australia | Registered: 05 May 2005Reply With Quote
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I adore the 7x57.


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Posts: 477 | Location: Olyphant Pennsylvania | Registered: 05 September 2002Reply With Quote
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Just one? I'd go with my old .270WCF.
Like the poster above mentioned. New premium bullets, just make it better.


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Posts: 267 | Location: So. Oregon | Registered: 11 June 2004Reply With Quote
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Just one, hmm. Either the 7x57, or a 7mm Mauser, or possibly the old 275 Rigby. Since I have none of the above, it would be a .30-06 and a 180 grain bullet.
 
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My every day rifle for deer in Missouri is a 7-08 but I enjoy my .308,.270 win and my 30-06 just as well but the 30-06 is the most versatile of the lot hands down.


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Posts: 7361 | Location: South East Missouri | Registered: 23 November 2005Reply With Quote
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270 has my vote


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9.3x62






 
Posts: 1229 | Location: Texas | Registered: 08 November 2005Reply With Quote
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7x57mm. enough said.
 
Posts: 499 | Location: Eudora, Ks. | Registered: 15 December 2003Reply With Quote
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Two years ago I would have said 7x57. I have been a tear with the 25-06 and like it a bit more for use in my area.
 
Posts: 831 | Location: Virginia | Registered: 28 January 2005Reply With Quote
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400 Whelen (improved version).

You can literally hunt anything with it.

In the medium bore category, my 35 Whelen, also the improved version (40 degree shoulder).

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No doubt - .30-06

or did I say 9.3x62 Wink

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Posts: 681 | Location: Spring Branch, TX (Summers in Northern MN) | Registered: 18 September 2004Reply With Quote
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My current top of my list is the 9.3x62 However the 7x64,6.5x55,and any cartridge based on and including the 308 will always be in my reach.


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Wow! that's a tough one. It would be a toss up between the 6.5x55,7x64 or 9.3x62. Lou


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