best gun for deer

JATK said:
Caliber matters more than the rifle. Heres a good chart

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I personally use 30-06 its a great round for pretty much everything. Rifle brands are an afterthought after you decide on caliber but the finnish Tikka is what I use id reccomend either that or the finnish Sako brand. But honestly any rifle that shoots will do lol. Of the calibers 308, 30-06, 7MAG are all good rounds id reccomend
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Close, but not quite.
This chart is better:
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While the question was incomplete, not impressed with many of the answers

Questions best to give a genuine answer speaking as Deer Hunter for 46 years is

Where are you hunting, and is the deer whitetail or Mule Deer

What is the terrain and cover; open range, farmers fields with wind breaks, plains, heavy bush or a combination

.30cal rifles such as 30-06 (my all around), .308, 30-30, 303 Brit, 300 Savage will generally do it all.

For open country 150gr pointed soft point or ballistic tip is good from 50 to say 200 yards plus

Here in say Eastern Ontario farm country (say an average shot 50 -100yards + or central Ontario up at 1000 to 1400 ft 1940s 1950s logging country open areas, heavy brush, lots of twigs and branches to foul your shot then a 180 gr round nose projectile as a "brush buster" slower moving, less prone to deflection but will shot and kill up to 200-300 yards

Next part of the question is what can you spend?

Optics; a good wide field of view duplex crosshair in a 1.5 to 4 power or 5. Get a 3x9 and you are going to lose field of view for fast explosive while shots, and man do the move and bound, explosively . At low power mine has about a 75 ft field of view at 100 yards (very good!)

Hope that gets you off on the right foot. Choice of action from bolt gun, lever action, pump, semi auto is a personal choice
 
Oh, best deer rifle...very good question with many answers!

Some of the best include the M-14, M1 carbine, CZ 858, AR-10, AR-15, Browning Automatic Rifle, Thompson carbine, FN FAL, Robinson Arms XCR, Just Right Carbine, Ruger Blackhawk, Redhawk and 1911 with 5" barrels in 10mm or 45 Rowland.

I know the last few aren't really rifles, but they'll work on deer just the same! 😄
 
Mr.Rigpig said:
Pretty hard to argue against the 30-06
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Quite easy to argue against it, ha ha, but you can argue any cartridge on this list.

I personally do not like the 270 where we used to hunt, in close, just too fast and wastes too much meat.

There are literally thousands of guns that could easily be the "best gun for deer"
 
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