what is your favorite hunting rifle caliber

What is your favorite hunting rifle caliber

Hi

Love all your comments, when I was 6-7 years old in my native Tijuana Mexico my twin sister and I attended the Saturday mornings matinee all dressed up in Cowboy gear with cap revolvers in and together we fought the bad guys, I fell in love with the old American West, made up my mind that someday I too will own a rifle and a revolver as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers did.

The old west is romantic as the firearms use to tame it bad, good or indifferent the old west is romantic.
Today now retired I still play cowboy and Indians I'm a life member SAAA by badge number is 24424L, shoot and owns Colt second generation revolvers as my daughters.
I own other rifles a Mauser side x side .375 HH Mag, several 06's a .243 Win. and a few Winchester levers.

Romance is like beauty only exits in the eyes of the beholder

Later

YB66
 
Love the .45-70 also, have a bunch of them, but my go to hunting cartridge now are my Timber Carbine and Black Shadow chambered for .444. Can use it on anything from squirrels to elephants depending on how I load them.
 
I do most of my shooting with my 22lr,
I do enjoy the round but its got some serious limitations.
223 is next, use it on small varmint and bigger game, cheap and nice to the shoulder.

My favorite round to hunt with is 12ga, always makes me smile when I've got my 870 out.

But since you said rifle I'm going 22lr or 223.
 
22lr and 223Rem are the same caliber.

I do most of my shooting with 22-250Rem. Again, .22 caliber.

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favorite hunting calibers

Just let me count the calibers that I have hunted with
22 lr
22 wrm
6.8 spc
7.62x39mm
.308 Win
357 mag
44 mag
303 britsh
45-70 govt
45 muzzell loader

V/R
J Budd
 
Favorite deer hunting calibers.. 30-06, 243win, 7,62x54r on occasion.

Favorite varmit and pig calibers.. 223rem, 243rem.

Everything else... 22lr, 12ga.
 
THE RAVEN said:
PawPaw.......How do you like that H&R Handi-Rifle in the 45-70 ???
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I like it a lot. It's simple, rugged, dependable, accurate, light.

Several years ago, the states of Louisiana and Mississippi lost their collective minds and changed the muzzle loading season to a "primitive firearms" season. They allowed the use of cartridge arms that meet certain criteria, and published a list of firearms suitable for that season. The Handi-rifle in .45-70 and .444 are on that list. I had been hunting that season for several decades using an old Thompson/Center Renegade, but switched over to the Handi purely based on my laziness. It's a whole lot easier to use a cartridge arm than a front-stuffer. My rifle is outfitted with a Williams peep sight and I load the Lee 457-405-F and push it to about 1350 fps with a middling charge of .4895. It achieves black powder velocities without being punishing and gives good accuracy out to about 150 yards. It's a great deer-slaying load, with numerous bang-flops.

I also use that rifle when teaching grandkids. My older grandsons are in their young teens and are novice-proficient with .22LR up to the .308 class of cartridge. Occasionally, they'll ask me for something with more "kick" and I'll hand them the Handi-rifle, sit them at the bench and let it pound them. That rifle and load isn't punishing from hunting positions, but when you hunker down over a light rifle at the bench, the stock will smack you in the chops pretty good.

It's a good rifle for what it is, but I don't claim that it is something it isn't.
 
My favorite Rifle Cartridge is the .308 win. For my type of hunting its perfect. My 2nd favorite is the .22 LR for small game hunting.
 
I have hunted with several different cartridges in the past 40+ years of hunting with a rifle,for large thin skinned game (deer and elk) I really like the 7mm rem mag probably because I have taken the most game with this cartridge from 20 yards out past 500 it works everytime with excellent anchoring power!
 
I was sitting here trying to come up with an answer to the question. Trying to ask myself the "Which one would you pick for deer hunting if you could only pick one" kind of question. Which was leading me down the .257 Roberts line of thought. But really, the proper way to answer this question should be... Which cartridge have you actually used in the past to kill the most big game animals? Not the one you would use in the future. But in actual numerical count, which one have you used the most?

In my case, when that is the question, all the others fall out of the running by about a 5-1 margin. I bought a rifle way back in 1985 that seemed to me to be the ideal "do it all" kind of big game rifle and I really did use for all my big game hunting for about 15 years before I started using anything else. That would be a Remington 700 Classic in .350 Remington Magnum with a 4x Zeiss scope. So there you have it! Hard to beat the versatility of a mid-capacity .35 caliber.

Gregg
 
Ive already posted

This coming Deer Season I plan to lay my Beloved .308 aside and hunt exclusively with my .50 calliber Muzzle Loader. Ive got one thats a real shooter and I want to take game with it.
 
Favorite deer rifle: .308 Browning BLR early model.

Favorite elk rifle: 300 WSM Savage model 11.

Favorite small game rifle: Marlin model 60 .22lr
 
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