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With modern bullets and the sheer variety of them that one calibre can do all but the dangerous game.
I've loaded mine with trailboss and 110gn HP's for small game, even with 110gn semi jacketed pills and that's accurate enough to head shoot small game out to 100m, or won't do excessive damage with a chest shot so it's great for camp meat.
I've got a 130gn woodleigh load that's great out to 500m, although not much past that as the SD starts to take its toll.
I use a 150gn TTSX at a moderate 2800fps for deer and camels along with a 168gn TTSX load I'd be comfortable using on Buff if they weren't coming at me.
I've got a 220gn RN load that's great for close country hunting, it really does it all.

The secret to making it all work is accurate return to zero scope mounts, with the options we have these days you really can be a one gun hunter if you have the right scope and load for whatever type of hunting you might want to do.

So for Alaska if I Waa taking one gun and doing multiple hunts I'd take the 30-06 and use say athe 130gn load in probably a nosler BT with a 5-15x scope for goat or sheep then switch to a 2-7x36 and the 150gn Ttsx for deer/caribou/moose or black bear and load up either the 220gn RN or 168gn TTSX and a 1-4x scope for grizzly, I might even take a 2-7 or fixed 6x with the trail boss loads for grouse or beaver.

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How many scopes do you have for this one rifle? Out of interest. What brand scopes? What qd mounts? Thanks.

Might get confusing.

I always try to double check my Mauser M03 when changing barrels and scopes. Just in Saturday put on the .222 barrel and its scope. Test shot it, ok at 25 mm high at 60 paces. Fine for brain shooting at fallow bucks in the paddocks.

Larger calibres and bigger targets, maybe less precise return to aim needed.

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John aka NitroX

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