How many calibers

Limited,but practiced

.22lr/12ga/25/06 on one deer, wasn't much to it./22wmr/12ga/9mm didn't work to well on pigs/12ga/.357mag/ and oh yeah the 12 guage.
 
.270 Win. and 30-30 Win.

I get amused now days when people talk about what a great cartridge the 30-30 is because when I was starting my hunting during the 60's and 70's, the 30-30 took such a beating in the press in order to "prop up" the latest, sexiest, whiz-bang wonder cartridges. When the dust settles, the old thurty-thurty is still a damn fine deer rifle.
 
I forgot to finish my post correctly.... Of the rounds I listed the .410 killed one deer and I got in trouble over it. .30-30 has bagged me many. The 12 gauge was our go to "grocery getter" when poor.
The 20 or 12 with slugs is fine for me to take to the swamp as is the "Birdy Birdy"...
Brent
 
Is there anything (in hunting) you couldn't do with a 7x57?
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I wouldn't want to stalk wounded dangerous game with my 7x57 single shot. I really have no desire to stalk wounded dangerous game at all, but I'd want to pick another rifle chambering if I ever found myself in that position and I'd want it in a double rifle.

Other than that, I think the grand ole 7 is up to most any task in adequately skilled hands, right Bell?
 
Have take deer with all these:
.22 LR
6mm Rem
257 Roberts
7x57
.308
30-06
.41 mag handgun
.45 Colt handgun
12 gauge #4 shot
12 gauge #4 buckshot
.50 Muzzel Loader with sabot/.44 pistol bullet
.444 Marlin
.375 Winchester
.32 Win. Spl.
Arrow

Have taken varmints with:
.22 LR, Rifle and Pistol
.22 Hornet
7.62x39
 
Sadly, I have only actually used .243 Win and .270 Winchester to harvest big game.

Many chamberings have been on hunts, but only the .243 and .270 have been in my hand at the right moment.
 
I've haven't used nearly as many as I'd like to!

Cartridges I've killed game with:

.243 Win (deer & pronghorn)
.270 Win (elk, deer, & pronghorn)
.30-06 (elk & black bear)
.338-06 (pronghorn)
.50 Cal ML (deer)

Cartridges I have I want to kill game with:

.25-06 Rem
6.5X55
7mm-08 Rem
.280 GNR
.30-30 Win
.30-40 Krag
.300 H&H
8mm-06
.358 Win
.35 Whelen
.375 Ruger
.54 Cal ML
 
22 LR, 22 MAGNUM, 222 REM, 22 HORNET, 223 REM. 22-250, 243 WIN, 6MM REM, 25-35 WCF, 25-06, 250-3000, 270 WIN, 284 WIN, 30 CARBINE, 30-30, 300 SAVAGE, 30-06, 308, 300 WIN MAG, 338 WIN MAG, 35 WHELEN, 375 H&H, 416 TAYLOR,45-70,50-70 GOVT, 357 MAG, 45ACP are a few just off the top of my head I have used to take big game. Im sure there are more.
 
I've taken moose, deer, bear, caribou, cougar, sheep, goat, pig and elk (my favorite). All with my little .308 Weatherby Vanguard - and I doubt I'll ever use anything else.

One.

Tom
 
I'm hoping additional hunters will stop by and add their 2 bits! I have enjoyed reading all the posts so far, from the single caliber hunters ("Beware of the fella with ONE gun!") and also liked the laundry lists of excellent calibers added by others. So there's no misunderstanding, there was no attempt to do anything but share these different experiences of different hunters. I will admit to chuckling , though, quite often at a fella who spouts just enough B.S. about guns and calibers so you know for sure he knows nothing...lol
Thanks, and keep 'em comin'
 
Is there anything (in hunting) you couldn't do with a 7x57?
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Good point, and that is pretty much my opinion, too. I wouldn't want to pursue brown bear or lions or tigers with it, but after all the other big game rifles, the 7X57 is the one I kept, the others are gone.
 
The point of this exercise is that if you haven't hunted medium or large game with a certain round you have no right to comment on it.

I tend to disagree with that statement. If hunting is the be all and end all of judging a caliber, then I've fired my .30-06 less than 40 times and my .30-30 twice.
I would suggest that we can learn quite a bit about ammunition and the rifles it come out of by shooting at targets and plinking. imho the several thousand .30-06 rounds I've fired at various targets from paper to tree stumps make me a better judge of it's abilities than the few dozen I've put into bambi. I would go further and say that I feel competent about judging rounds I haven't put into bambi if I've fired them at the range. Further still, I believe in science, if a round is ballistically similar to one I'm familiar with then I feel comfortable making inferences about its ability.
 
The point of this exercise is that if you haven't hunted medium or large game with a certain round you have no right to comment on it.

I tend to disagree with that statement. If hunting is the be all and end all of judging a caliber, then I've fired my .30-06 less than 40 times and my .30-30 twice.
I would suggest that we can learn quite a bit about ammunition and the rifles it come out of by shooting at targets and plinking. imho the several thousand .30-06 rounds I've fired at various targets from paper to tree stumps make me a better judge of it's abilities than the few dozen I've put into bambi. I would go further and say that I feel competent about judging rounds I haven't put into bambi if I've fired them at the range. Further still, I believe in science, if a round is ballistically similar to one I'm familiar with then I feel comfortable making inferences about its ability.
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Exactly. We know it's dimensions and structure. We know how fast it's going. The rest is opinion based on about anything your imagination can conjure up.
 
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