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gatsby
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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: gatsby]
      #59611 - 05/07/06 02:37 PM

PS I have used the 454 casull also

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: Will]
      #59929 - 14/07/06 02:11 AM

.264 Win mag by far. I have used it for game up to elk size and a bunch of coyoes have fallen to one or another in my families hands. With 140 grain noslers it is flat and deep penetrating. I have never found it wanting in any respect for me it is the perfect all around cartridge and the one I depend on in almost any situation.

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: Taos]
      #60109 - 19/07/06 02:34 AM

The .30-06 will do it all with mild recoil, easy to find & inexpensive ammunition, forgiving accuracy, and broad versatility.

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
      #60354 - 26/07/06 04:10 AM

If I were forced down to one gun the choice wouldbe simple-a 300 mag in a bolt rifle. My particular favorite is a 300WSM Browning Stainless Stalker with a synthetic stock and a Ziess scope. It can be carried all day and do it all out to 400yds It weighs 7.25 pounds with scope and shoots great!!

In reality I grab the 300 WSM and roll or specifically select the 7mm08 for most of my deep woods whitetail, a 7mm Mag Sendero for beanfield shooting, a 338 for elk/moose, or a 416 Rem bolt for big bear .

A hunting fella just has to have options!!

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: hoppdoc]
      #65417 - 07/11/06 10:52 AM

300 H&H with 180 grain and some 200 grain stuff..if not that then a 375 H&H with some 300 spitzers and some 300 grain round nose...

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: hoppdoc]
      #65425 - 07/11/06 01:39 PM

After further thought--

Picking one caliber/rifle is impossible!!

A proper response would be region/situation specific--

300 WSM Browning- 180 gr-best Western allrounder
7mm08- 140 gr-Best Southern whitetail allrounder

300 ultramag with 200 grain partitions-Western long range
7 Mag-150 gr for Southern beanfields.

The long range 300 ultra may be being ursurped by the 338-378 WBY for Moose/Elk. Time will tell


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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: hoppdoc]
      #66632 - 09/12/06 05:54 AM

Gentlemen,
If limited to one, I would pick an 8X68S, if two rifles were permitted, a 7 mm wby mag and a 9,3X70

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: Yochanan]
      #67872 - 23/12/06 09:53 AM

like so many places, the one gun theory just don't work well here either.....for pronghorns and smaller deer the 257 Roberts/6.5 X 55 style of cartridge is what works well but as we head out for the really big bears the 375 and 338 mags are what I want to carry.....that said however...If I was relegated to one rifle...yes that 100 year old 30-06 with the right hand loads will take care of business anytime!

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: vapodog]
      #68319 - 30/12/06 03:08 AM

Like Ovis, I load my 20" .375 Ultra to match the occasion. When I head out the door, this is the rifle I grab - year round. I load 260 gr Noslers down to 2600 for game under 500 lbs, and I use 300 gr TSX's at 2600 for moose, and the 380 gr Rhinos at 2300 is in case I get mixed up with a cranky bear. I generally use Hornady 270 gr Interlocks for more economical practice.

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: Boomer]
      #77620 - 29/04/07 08:38 AM

I had a 338/06 M760 pump a great thumper ( on both ends ), but now its either the 375 Holland or the Lott as my first two choices ..
There are many degrees of wounded but only one degree of dead so with that there is no such thing as overkill ..


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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: Schamankungulo]
      #77863 - 02/05/07 02:18 PM

.458 Lott
Seriously, I'm not joking.

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: walksfar]
      #77892 - 03/05/07 05:16 AM

For praticality, the .376/06IMP wins with identical capacity to a .375 Hawk/Scovil, 78gr. water capacity. It shoots 235's at 2,845fps, 270's at 2,650fps and 300's at 2,470fps, none are case stretching loads in my rifle - 25" tube. In B.C. it does it all perfectly well.
: Most favourite is a .458 2", with tied for second place with the .375, a 7x57 Mauser on an old BRNO.

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: Will]
      #79726 - 01/06/07 02:16 PM

My Marlin 1895 cowboy in handloaded 45-70 does it all.
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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
      #79850 - 03/06/07 04:52 PM

30-06
If I could choose a second rilfe it would also be a 30-06
If you can't do it with a 30-06 you probably can't do it with anything.

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: 458Win]
      #349808 - 28/01/21 04:03 PM

I wonder if the choices have changed in 14 years. I see one is very close still to a recent post.

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: NitroX]
      #349858 - 29/01/21 08:18 AM

Wasnt there somebody who used to say 375 H&H-one planet, one rifle?

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: EDELWEISS]
      #349859 - 29/01/21 09:49 AM

Well, now I no longer have the .458 2", however do have a Sharps in .45 1.9" that dupicates lever gun loads in .45/70.
I also have a .45/70 Model 1886/71 and a model 1876 in .50/95.
Still have the .376/06IMP with a muzzle break now that's easier shooting, but the favourite is my new 1936 Model 70 Winchester in .30/06.
I also have a couple 9.3x62's that get very little use.
The '06 is the new favourite with 165's and 180's. So much so, that I took the Burris scope off the .375 and put it on the model 70. The stadia
wires should give zeros to 400yards as they are set for 270gr. .375H&H factory ammo. The 180's from the '06 should be close. Shooting at the big
range next summer will tell that tale.


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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: DarylS]
      #350056 - 05/02/21 03:22 PM

As a kid, I thought the 30-06 was the rifle to compare everything to. In the years since, I've tried lots of others but keep coming back to it. I recently acquired the 30-06 I'd long since given up on finding, so now my hunting rifles are 30-06/30-06/9.3x62.

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: 458Win]
      #350075 - 05/02/21 09:55 PM

Quote:

30-06
If I could choose a second rilfe it would also be a 30-06
If you can't do it with a 30-06 you probably can't do it with anything.




I think Phil still posts very similar.

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: NitroX]
      #350200 - 09/02/21 04:42 PM

Having tried everything on Alaskan game , from the .17 Rem to the 505 Gibbs, I still like the all around versatility of the 30-06.
No other caliber has factory loads available in such a wide variety. 110 to 220 grains.

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: 458Win]
      #350221 - 10/02/21 04:48 AM

Quote:

Having tried everything on Alaskan game , from the .17 Rem to the 505 Gibbs, I still like the all around versatility of the 30-06.
No other caliber has factory loads available in such a wide variety. 110 to 220 grains.




I would think, based on all your experience and where you live, if anyone would know, it would be you..

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: Ripp]
      #350248 - 10/02/21 03:23 PM

With my non existent North American experience, but I would choose a .30-06, .338 Win Mag or .338 of some type, or a 9.3x62 as an all rounder North American hunting rifle.

Of course there are many choices in the same ranges.

I bought my .30-06 as my first medium game and medium calibre rifle for hunting internationally anywhere in the world.

Quote:

I have always pictured the .338 Win Mag as the ideal NAmer calibre.





Haven't changed my opinion much in 17 1/2 years.

I was supposed to be hunting in the USA in 2020, and was planning to take my 8x68S with me.



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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: NitroX]
      #350255 - 10/02/21 10:25 PM

Quote:

I would choose a .30-06, .338 Win Mag or .338 of some type



Well, I was keeping out of this, having never hunted in North America, but if we can interpret this as my favorite hunting calibre from North America, it could very well be the .338-06. Bit more wallop than the .30-06 when heavier bullets are loaded, and similar performance with similar weight bullets, given that I am talking actual hunting, not long-range sniping!

Bit like a .318 WR with modern easily-available components.

In terms of general usefulness, and the bulk of game taken in Oz with North American cartridges, it is the .308 Win by a country mile!

Ok, ok, I know this is the "Hunting in the Americas" forum so back to you guys.....

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
      #350256 - 10/02/21 11:23 PM

I have hunted white tail, black buck, ferral hogs/ wild boars in Texas, Oklahoma and South Carolina. 270 win, and 7mm mag worked just fine loaded with nosler partitions.

Ar 15 in 556/223 rem was a great combination for coyotes.

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Re: Your Favorite North American Hunting Caliber [Re: Yochanan]
      #350329 - 12/02/21 09:43 PM

When I think of a cartridge for North American hunting I see either the 300 Winchester Magnum or the 30/06.

When I finally got to go and hunt there I took a 30/06 loaded with the 180 grain Nosler Partition. In my mind you can’t get more apple pie than that. It’s worked well for me 👍.

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