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What is your favourite all around caliber to shoot ......or is it cartridge 🤔
What is your favourite all around caliber to shoot ......or is it cartridge 🤔
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02-23-2017, 08:42 AM
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6.5x55
Zero recoil, easy to load for, Very accurate. Will take down any animal i hunt
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02-23-2017, 08:48 AM
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.223 with cast boolits
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02-23-2017, 08:54 AM
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9.3x62 just because bigger is always more fun
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02-23-2017, 08:58 AM
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6.5's and 7's
And 6.5x57
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02-23-2017, 09:03 AM
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7mm rem mag, huge selection of high quality projectiles and powders to reload with, super accurate, high bc's good for any animal, that's my opinion anyway. There are so many good options these days pick what you know and are comfortable with, the more you shoot the better you will shoot.
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02-23-2017, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Maxwell78
6.5x55
Zero recoil, easy to load for, Very accurate. Will take down any animal i hunt
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Tough call ...
I enjoy my 257 WBY as it drives tacks out a long ways. It amazing how accurate it can be 300-400 yards out when conditions are good - but there is some moderate recoil - and it's pricey to shoot. Less punishing compared to the 300 WBY but just as accurate and long.
I also enjoy my good old 308 win in an older Remington 700BDL - it's never let me down, accurate, low recoil and fun to experiment at longer ranges as she is very predicable shooting a 150gr BT.
Maybe it's my 22 - that's always fun and cheap to shoot. Set up all sorts of experimental shooting drills and games ....
Maybe all of them !!!!
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02-23-2017, 11:36 AM
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6.5x55
Zero recoil, easy to load for, Very accurate. Will take down any animal i hunt
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I'll agree with this. I don't own one anymore, but when I did it was both enjoyable to shoot at the range and IMO the finest deer cartridge in existence. I also liked my .223, which I also no longer have.
Of the rifles I now own my .50 caliber Hawken is by far the most fun at the range.
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02-23-2017, 11:47 AM
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The 44 mag.
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02-23-2017, 11:50 AM
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Really love my 45-70. Have only just started tinkering with loads but I can take anything from coyotes to bears with it and everything in between. Super fun to shoot out of my Marlin 1895. Something about a lever...
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02-23-2017, 12:02 PM
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Was 54 Cal Black Powder. Would be again if I could find one again. 
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02-23-2017, 12:08 PM
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Really love my 45-70. Have only just started tinkering with loads but I can take anything from coyotes to bears with it and everything in between. Super fun to shoot out of my Marlin 1895. Something about a lever...
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Yup. Rimmed cases and levers, like Ritz crackers and cheese whiz. Mmm. Levers.
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02-23-2017, 12:06 PM
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rim jobs ............... 22lr
centrefire ............. .222 / 6.5x55 / 308 / 9.3x62 ............... 243 is starting to make inroads for me here
gauage ................ 28ga
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02-23-2017, 03:56 PM
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The rifle I would chose just to go to the range with, and shoot off a box of shells is the 375H&H, It leaves me with such a sense of accomplishment.
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02-23-2017, 04:47 PM
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My all round favorite is a gauge and it's 20.
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02-23-2017, 04:50 PM
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22lr.
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02-23-2017, 08:26 PM
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What's my favorite? That's like asking what my favorite money is, which is all kinds! From the little 22lr to the 45-70, to the 7mm, the "06, anything that shoots a projectile gets my vote! One time I made a blow dart gun out 1/4" ss tracer ,used 18 gauge ss insulators tie wire about 5" long cut at angle with nippers that made it as sharp as possible, made a tight fold on the dull end of the wire, rolled a 1" strip of caution tape about 8" long on the end with the fold taped it on, then feathered it with my tin snips, all to take care of an unruly pigeon that was threatening the life of one of my workers who was deathly allergic. All my Manitoba crew was laughin at my contraption, that was until my 5th attempt, when put that dart right through that pigeons head from 20' away! The caution tape obviously prevented it from goin clean through. No lie, a bunch of my crew took pics, but that day, my favorite gauge was 18! Anything that flies through the air and kills things is my favorite!
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02-23-2017, 09:20 PM
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.45Acp, I love them all but if I need to pick one..
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02-25-2017, 01:30 PM
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Favourite caliber to shoot
Hands down my 25-06 Browning A-Bolt with the boss! Recoil friendly without the boss (using the CR) the recoil is tame.I can shoot all day at the range and no bruised shoulder.It shoots amazing groups! I have 2 shots in the same hole and one 3/16" next to the single hole using Nosler 120gr Partions. For my Coyote/Gopher shooting I use Hornady 75gr hp varmint bullets and can get the same groupings & better bye dialling down the boss! This is my fourth 25-06.First gun I bought at 15 was a Ruger 77/RS almost as accurate as the Browning.only reason I sold it was because I wanted the new wave boss & it is a much lighter gun. I have two ABolt boss rifles now,my first and favourite a Stainless Stalker was stolen  I have shot Bull Elk,Moose,bear,deer with the 120gr Partion & never once needed a second shot! Super flat,fast and accurate. That is what we all want 
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02-25-2017, 01:35 PM
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I have more than one favourite.
And next week it might change and I'll find a new love of my life.
I'm a polygamist gun owner it seems.
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I like anything in a .338 or .35 caliber
fedral 338, 338 -06 and my go to for over a decade 338 win mag
and of course 35 remington, .356 win, 358 win, 350 rem mag, and the whelen of course. I dont have all these, just over the years have shot them.
No mater the cartridge, .338 or .35 kills everything and anything
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