If you were going to get ONLY 1 rifle...

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DeerSlayer86

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If you could have only one HUNTING rifle what caliber, make, model would you choose? And why? As much as we all love a nice piece of wood...limit your choice to synthetic models. This rifle will be hunted with and used as a tool. Taken care of, but used for sure. I have a few makes and models in mind but would like to know what your "dream" hunting rifle is. After reading the first couple responses let me narrow it down even more...assume its a bolt action. Make, model, caliber...GO
 
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Probably a bolt-action '06. Easy to load all the way down for round-ball on squirrel, on up through plinkers and varmint stuff and then I figure that an elk would be the largest likely target.
 
06 or 308 with 3-9 scope.

a short magnum in .30 or 7 mm would be tempting, but I wouldn't do that.

I've already got my dream rifle, and I've got a synthetic stock I can switc out the wooden one with. If I ever buy a synthec stock for my 700 30-06 mountain rifle, that will become my "one rifle."
 
If I had to have 1 and only 1 rifle, it would probably be a .22 or a .30-06, depending on if I can have a shotgun as well.
 
I've already got mine, too. Interarms Mark X action, 3-position model 70 style safety, 24" Hart stainless barrel in .35 Ackley Whelen, McMillan stock, with Nikon 3-9x BDC scope in Leupold bases and rings. Capable of taking any game in the world, laws permitting.

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Thanks, Slayer. I already have sub 3/4 MOA loads worked up with 225 gr Partitions and 250 gr Hornady Interlock SP, and my next project is midrange cast bullit loads over some 2400.
 
Since we are talking about having only 1 hunting bolt action rifle, I'm going to go .270. .30-06 would work fine, but it would be brutal on the smaller animals. .270 can kill elk easily and it has a flatter trajectory.

However, if for whatever reason you knew for sure you wouldn't be hunting elk, I would drop to a .25-06. It's the perfect deer cartridge and better for small animals than the .270.
 
It would be my bolt-action .30-06 with a detachable magazine. It's a Savage, though the exact model escapes me at the moment. .30-06 is a great all-around cartridge, and honestly I have yet to see any significant price difference between it and .308. In fact, they're the same price every time I go to Cabela's. So why not go with the slightly more powerful round for hunting? In closing I'm not anti-308. I'm actually looking to get a battle rifle chambered in .308.
 
Im going to go a different direction. I would go with a short barrel 45/70. I can down load them pretty light and I could go very heavy as needed.

It would not work well for a long range gun, but where I hunt a 150 yard shot is a very long shot. Most shots here are 25-75 yards.
 
As much as we all love a nice piece of wood...limit your choice to synthetic models.
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Guess I don't get to play cause I dont use plastic stocks on my hunting rifles.

If I were to be allowed, I'd pick my Model 70 Winchester Featherweight in 270.
 
Probably take my fathers old Remington 700 in 30-06.

He has a custom trigger package on it, Stainless Octagional (yes you read that right) heavy barrel and a Leupold fixed 7 power scope.
All of this work was done on the gun back in the late 60's or early 70's and it is probably the best bolt gun I have ever fired.
 
T/C Encore (in the caliber of your choice). Then, as budget allows you can start adding barrels (and calibers).
 
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