Favorite Caliber?

30

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Shot a .30( 06')my whole life, its killed everything I have hit. Having said that, I will be buying my boys .284 when time comes.


"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"
 
What species??

doves: 20 gauge
turkeys: 12 gauge
coyotes/varmints: 243
Deer: 270
pigs: AR 308
elk: #1 50 cal muzzleloader #2 7mm mag centerfire


txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
 
Are you asking bullet diameter? Or specific cartridge?

My favorite is .308 or 30 caliber. I use a 300 win mag for just about everything I hunt, if game wise.
 
All around best caliber has got to be 280 AI. Easy on the the shoulder, flat shooting, very good if not the best bullet selection. Everything the most popular caliber ever is (30-06), only better in every category with today's bullets.
 
.30 (30-06). But I am the guy who buys one of the best rifle he can afford and then uses it for everything. With the '06 I can buy good loads almost anywhere I go and so avoid hand loading; it kills anything I put a slug into; it's velocity is adequate to shoot beyond ranges that I am comfortable with without being overkill and wasting a lot of meat; it's recoil is modest without using loud recoil suppression--even in a lightweight rifle. If I had to choose another cartridge, it would be a .284 based on the 30-06 cartridge.
 
7 M M Rem Mag. Rem 700 Bolt Action with a great Muzzle Brake attached. 140 grain Nosler Partition
Max Handloaded. That's as good as it gets in North America. Sudden Death & very flat shooting.
 
22 Hornet for coyote and bobcat.

300 Savage for deer and elk.

Since I live in Iowa if I had to pick one it would be the 22 Hornet. If I lived out west I'd pick the 300.
 
This is the very debate that has allowed gun makers to prosper for years Hopefully it will continue for many more years.
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>This is the very debate that
>has allowed gun makers to
>prosper for years
>Hopefully it will continue for
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I guess I will add that I shoot a lot of calibers for a lot of reasons; but I still can't wrap my head around the short mag craze. Different strokes for different folks.


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>>This is the very debate that
>>has allowed gun makers to
>>prosper for years
>>Hopefully it will continue for
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>I guess I will add that
>I shoot a lot of
>calibers for a lot of
>reasons; but I still can't
>wrap my head around the
>short mag craze. Different strokes
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There's just something about a short fat case!!!! ?
 
375 RUM!


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Back Me Off to 1,700 Yards,650 is a Little Close & I'm Not Comfortable with it!

A GUT SHOT at 1,700 Yards will Still Make Some Good BRAGGIN Rights so I Can Say I At Least Hit Him!


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....would you clowns stop perpetuating GarrettH's ignorance...cartridge name is not "caliber"....


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>....would you clowns stop perpetuating GarrettH's
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Well F Me!

.375!

Is that better?






Back Me Off to 1,700 Yards,650 is a Little Close & I'm Not Comfortable with it!

A GUT SHOT at 1,700 Yards will Still Make Some Good BRAGGIN Rights so I Can Say I At Least Hit Him!


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LAST EDITED ON Oct-06-17 AT 09:25AM (MST)[p]Which ever one is in my hands......next up .338 win mag for Elk
 
>so....is that 8mm rem mag .323
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Yes!







Back Me Off to 1,700 Yards,650 is a Little Close & I'm Not Comfortable with it!

A GUT SHOT at 1,700 Yards will Still Make Some Good BRAGGIN Rights so I Can Say I At Least Hit Him!


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How about it GarrettH? You haven't told us your favorite or why you asked to question.

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
 
My favourite cartridge is .30-06, because I use this for my elk hunting, and I love elk hunting.

An amusing anecdote is that I remember disparaging the .30-06 to my father, who made the .30-06 rifle that I prefer to use while hunting elk (Springfield action and barrel placed in a custom stock that he made). It didn't shoot flat . . . compared with other cartridges, such as 7 mm Magnum, .300 Winchester Magnum, etc. Well, this view was based merely on reading stuff in magazines and books. The .30-06 gets what I need done, I just need to do my part.
 
>How about it GarrettH? You
>haven't told us your favorite
>or why you asked to
>question.
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>txhunter58

No reason I just wanted to here other people?s thoughts, but I would say 30-06. It's a great round for pretty much any big game animal. I used the Hornady 178 grain ELD-X last year and they worked beautifully. The elk I harvested dropped instantly.
 
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>No reason I just wanted to
>here other people?s thoughts, but
>I would say 30-06. It's
>a great round for pretty
>much any big game animal.
>I used the Hornady 178
>grain ELD-X last year and
>they worked beautifully. The elk
>I harvested dropped instantly.


Nice.

It is funny, I have always been a one-woman guy. Could never love more than one at a time.

But with guns I can never narrow it down because it means I have to pick a certain game animal as my base. Love to hunt everything from turkeys, to pigs to deer, to elk so I have ended up with a plethora of guns over about 50 years of hunting.

My go to gun is my 270 that I bought myself when I was 16. I use it more than any other gun I own. But I LOVE elk hunting, and for that I lover my muzzloader or my 7mm rem mag (whichever tag I get). But when I go to get some whitetail meat, I take my 243.

Bottom line is unlike a woman, you don't have to have a favorite. Just a favorite one at the moment!

txhunter58

venor, ergo sum (I hunt, therefore I am)
 
Hmmmmm this is tough...........I like the topic and responses
and my responses will be cartridge

If I could only have 1 hunting rifle for North America and I didn't care about cost but pure performance.....28 Nosler with 195 gr Berger EOL

For pure long range shooting pleasure that I can shoot all day.....6.5 Creedmoor

For ground squirrels the .17 HMR just keeps a smile on my face
 
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Never shot a cartridge I didn't like.

I've shot some rifles that I absolutely hated.

It may be my bias but I have had a lot more trouble with accuracy and confidence and with the design of the firearm than I've ever had with the caliber or the cartridge. And.......... it's not just the manufacture of the rifle, it's the design.

I have Ssvage rifles that I love and shot great with, and the bullet kills what it hits, and others Savages that where mean and nasty and I couldn't kill crap and it wasn't the cartridge.

Same for Rugers, Winchesters, Browning and Remington. Same with muzzleloaders and shotguns.

I love or hate them all, depending on the fit and feel and where I can reliably put a bulllet, every time. For me it's all about where the bullet goes, not what cartridge it came out of. All I care about is accuracy. You'd be amazed what a .22 caliber cartridge bullet will do, if it hits a heart, lungs or brain, but its accuracy goes to hell, long before it's killing capacity goes.

But....... like everything else, my opinions reflect my personal bias.

DC
 
Interesting summary of the results below. Many of these are very similar in ballistics. It all comes down to personal preferences. Some like blondes. Some like brunettes. Some like big...never mind...

300 Win Mag-8
30-06 - 5
284 - 5
270, 7mm Rem Mag - 4
308, 375 RUM, 338, 6.5 - 2

The 204, 270 Wby, 280, 416, 270 WSM, 300 Savage, 25-06, 300 Wby, 8mm Rem mag, 300 RUM, 28 Nosler - all with 1
 
I read an article about a large farm back east that shoots a lot of deer every year. The guy that runs the hunting operation has logged every detail about every hunt for like 40 years. The data was very interesting, he logged Cartridge, bullet, velocity, shot placement, recovery distance and a bunch of other stuff. Based on recovery distance only, the .257 cartridges were the best killers of Whitetail deer.
 
Started w/ a 30-30 (Win model 94 open sight). Took my first 4 deer with it.

Next 30-06, which has taken more animals in my household than the rest of the weapons combined. My 2 youngest still "speak" for that one each year.

Then, I moved on to 300 RUM, which I used for a decade or so - several Wyoming hunts. It has sat for 15 years. I have brass and dies but never get around to it. Not sure what I will do with it.

Over the next few years I bought a couple 270 WSMs and a couple 300 WSMs. I switch back and forth, but have settled on one of the 300 WSMs.

My hunting buddy has gone "long range" over the past 4 years with a few 26 Noslers and a 6.5 CM and now a 6 CM. After witnessing 3 amazing kills between 680 and 1,000+ yards you would think that would cause me to take the plunge. However, it was after that and a video sent to me from a friend in western WY where he and his 3 buddies each took 4x4s @ just over 1,000 yards that I made a personal choice to not take that direction.
 
I dont honesty have one... im a gun nut

For 30s im a 300rum guy

For 284: I like the 28 nosler/7mm STW

For 6.5s: i like the 6.5x284norma and 6.5x47 lapua

25s: i like the 25-06

6mmm: i like the 6xc and 6mm creed but the 6mm dasher will be my next build

22: i like the 22-250 and 220 swift

Coloradoboy
 
>Shot a .30( 06')my whole life,
>its killed everything I have
>hit. Having said that,
>I will be buying my
>boys .284 when time comes.
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>
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>"The only thing that stops a
>bad guy with a gun
>is a good guy with
>a gun"

I still shoot my 06', however after seeing some work this fall, 7mm-08.

I know, not real manly. And the ruger American that shoots it is just a tool, but I was floored by what it did.

Maybe Newbergs right?


"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"
 

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