Best do-it-all hunting caliber

“If memory serves you correctly”? One of my kids? Lol.

Here is a couple with each bullet. Shot dead with the help of a key board.

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Not even me? I don’t follow. Again, this is easily proven by photos and date stamps. Not to mention the rifles in the photos (notice they are LH Model 70’s). I’m just not sure why the vitriol.

I also shot game in the last couple of years with the 6.5 CM, the 30-06, and 7MM RM. I like them as well.
 
Here is the rifle with bear #2. I wonder how many SS LH Model 70’s there are in 338 floating around out there? Lol. Again. Not sure what your issue is.

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Chuck what velocities are you getting with the 225 and 250s? I keep wanting to love the 338 but keep being side tracked by the 9.3x62
 
The 250gr Partition is pretty impressive. I shot this bear straight on from about 50 yards. I was on a hill above him and when he turned his head to the side I shot him through the neck and that bullet exited just in front of his nuts. He went nowhere. 90% of the bears I shoot come out on my back. This one I shot late enough in the season that it had dried up pretty good. My dad has an old Toyota that he thinks is a quad so I called him to see if he thought he could get to me. Challenge accepted :). But this picture with my dad shows how much bear that bullet went through.

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pathfinder76 - you need to get a front bumper winch for your Dad, if he is going to play game recovery games - I saw one used by little, older guy near Hudson Bay, Sask - his was on an Argo - would drive machine nose first to decent tree - stand on winch mount and attach a snatch block as high as he could reach up that tree. Winch line up through the snatch block, then strung out to the carcass - would skid animal and lift at same time - into back carry box - about minimal physical fussing with it, except to get that snatch block way up high.
 
There's not a one of us that would want for anything if all we had was a good 30-06 topped with a 3-9.

The trouble is that we gun nutz are also gun snobs and think we have a better plan than the aforementioned rifle/scope combo, but in the end we really don't. :)

Yup ! Pretty much . So I got a Kimber Ceracoated SS Hunter in 30-06 with Leupold 3x9 CDS scope .I’m Set. Lol RJ
 
pathfinder76 - you need to get a front bumper winch for your Dad, if he is going to play game recovery games - I saw one used by little, older guy near Hudson Bay, Sask - his was on an Argo - would drive machine nose first to decent tree - stand on winch mount and attach a snatch block as high as he could reach up that tree. Winch line up through the snatch block, then strung out to the carcass - would skid animal and lift at same time - into back carry box - about minimal physical fussing with it, except to get that snatch block way up high.

I know it. In this case he just held the slack while I wrestled that thing in. But yes, we have talked about doing just that a few times.
 
OP - if you want to "march to a different drummer" - I have 7.62x53 Argentine, 7x61 Sharpe and Hart and a 308 Norma Mag - not likely current main stream - but had their day - and still work as well as they used to work. For perhaps 15 years, I did most all my deer hunting with a 7x57 Ruger No. 1 - that works, too. My Dad carried a 30-06 since 1948 - nothing inadequate about that, either - he took many deer with it, and several moose, at least one black bear and one lynx, and several elk. But "odd-ball" chamberings come with all the additional baggage of not being "main stream" - pretty much have to reload for them - and do not EVER forget to bring your ammo - at least here in the boonies - and finding correct brass can be a PITA, although most of them can be re-formed from other, more "main stream" cartridges.
 
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