Whats Your "All-Purpose" North American Hunting Rifle?

[srtrax]

Favorite @ this time is a commercial Mauser 338/06, nice english walnut stock, 3x9x40 scope.

 

[WeedWacker]

This might seem wierd but I would take my mossberg 500 with rufled barrel. Some would say "that's a shotgun" but I would use it for everything. Put a smoothbore on it and you can hunt small game. Rifled barrel would allow me to take grizzlies with some of those high shock rounds.

 

[intruder]

Winchester pre 64 Model 70 In 30-06

 

[SavageSniper]

Savage 99 in .308. Do not have one at this time but have very fond memories of the one I had.

 

[ojibweindian]

Weatherby Vanguard 7mm Remington Magnum w/ 3-9x40 Bushnell Elite 3200.

 

[sparkysteve]

Mine is a Remington 7600 pump in .30-06. It's shot deer in the thick Michigan woods and the Wyoming prarie.

 

[FALshootist]

For me the rifle or action type doesn't matter as much as caliber. I thing the 30-06 followed by the 308 are good choices.

 

[Jason_G]

Remington 742 in 6mm. Fast, flat shooting, and big enough for anything in my neck of the woods.

Jason

 

[Edward429451]

1895G 45/70 <125 yds 350 GC@ 1612 fps. Lightweight collar button mould forthcoming for the small game load to round it out.

 

[Jim Z.]

For over 30 years, Remington BDL 700 in .30-06.

Now I'm playing with a couple of Marlin big bore lever guns in .444 and .450 Marlin.

 

[Huntergirl]

2 primary go to rifles. One is a Tikka Whitetail hunter 30-06 with a Nikon Monarch 2-7x33. And when the weather gets crappy, I now have a Browning Abolt stainless stalker 30-06 with a Leupie vari-x2 3-9x40.

 

[dionysusigma]

Yugoslavian M48 Mauser.

Inexpensive rifle, inexpensive ammo, built well, and certainly powerful enough.

 

[fisherman66]

Ruger #1 RSI in 7x57

It should be here by the end of the week.

 

[Jim Z.]

It's hard to beat the ole' 06!

 

[FALshootist]

Yugoslavian M48 Mauser.

Inexpensive rifle, inexpensive ammo, built well, and certainly powerful enough.

Although in my previous post I stated that I like the 30-06 and 308. Running a close third is my M48 which I converted to a scout rifle with a stock change, and Burris scout scope (No Bubbaing here, not that there is any collecter value here). Its great for hunting pigs and a hell of alot of fun at the range.

The only downfall of the 8mm is US makers load it to 30-30 ballistics and neither US nor Euoropean manufactured ammo is as available as the 308 or 30-06 although properly loaded it the 8mm will do anything they will.

 

[Richard.Howe]

Model 70 in either .308 or 6.5x55.

Can't go wrong with either for 90% of what's on this continent!

Rich