Best do-it-all hunting caliber
- Thread starter RYoung
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Really? Are you sure about that? Date stamps are easy.
Not sure why you are choosing this hill to die on.
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.
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.
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.
. But this picture with my dad shows how much bear that bullet went through.
- Location
- Western Manitoba
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
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.
pete dobinson
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Courtenay BC.
I think if it came down to a vote, you would have a hard time knocking the 30-06 off the podium as the best do all cartridge for this continent anyway.
A very good candidate for sure
- Location
- Western Manitoba
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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