Most likely cartridges for big game hunting to find factory ammo on remote shelves?

Spent some time in Nunavut a few years ago ( no road access). I remember seeing 30-06, 7mm, and 308 in the local co op. Distinctly remember seeing 250-3000 and 45-70 as well.
 
blakeyboy said:
Calling on the remote living and travelling hunters. Whats the vote for most likely to find factory ammo on shelves cartridge in North America say, especially Canada and Northern half of USA?

Currently?

Future?

List top 3 or 5?
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30-06 has a lot going. 150 gr. to 220 if you so desire. choose you bullet to you game.
 
It's the sort of problem that has kept me a 12 gauge owner for all these years. As far as centrefire rifles go, I would have a child-like faith in .308 always being available, I consider it to be the new .303 British which, thanks to all the surplus Lee Enfields sold in Canada, used to be everywhere. Thing is, the market is being highly distorted by government hate.
 
To me "ammo available at a gas station" is never a concern. I'd rather be hunting with unusual or unique cool cartridges then settle for a .30-06 for that one in a million chance. It might come back and bite me in the a$$ on day but in the meantime I'll take the risk.
 
bcsteve said:
To me "ammo available at a gas station" is never a concern. I'd rather be hunting with unusual or unique cool cartridges then settle for a .30-06 for that one in a million chance. It might come back and bite me in the a$$ on day but in the meantime I'll take the risk.
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I’m sort of conflicted on this one. Using the 30-06 as an example you’d have to point one at me with the safety off to make me say I liked a little bit. In spite of that i’’ve killed a stupid amount of things with it, one of the major reasons being that I knew that I was a phone call away from having a few cases hauled in if it came to that. Funny thing is it never came to that. Still any ammo is better than now ammo in a pinch.
 
I’m the same way with the .308. I’ve always had .308s, never loved them, used them more than anything but .375 H&H. It’s available in every type of rifle I like to shoot, semis, mountain rifles, precision rifles. It’s the gal I settle for when the lights get turned down after last call. But I just can’t get excited by it, which is why .257 stubbornly remains in the cabinet and on the bench.

And I do get cases of .308 delivered regularly, so I suppose I settle regularly. If I was practical, I’d learn to love the homely .308, but we seem to live beyond practicality in this part of the world.
 
Well I must type.............tizz easier tuh hug the .308win than that vanillafruggly 270.

Haaaay, our local IDA Pharmacy has ammo locked up behind the counter.
Maybe I'll see iff'in they'll let me take a photo awf thar supply.
Never know, maybe sum four.ten might be mixed in.
 
Ardent said:
I’m the same way with the .308. I’ve always had .308s, never loved them, used them more than anything but .375 H&H. It’s available in every type of rifle I like to shoot, semis, mountain rifles, precision rifles. It’s the gal I settle for when the lights get turned down after last call. But I just can’t get excited by it, which is why .257 stubbornly remains in the cabinet and on the bench.

And I do get cases of .308 delivered regularly, so I suppose I settle regularly. If I was practical, I’d learn to love the homely .308, but we seem to live beyond practicality in this part of the world.
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lol, I always felt same way about 308, and haven't been able to keep one around, I tried...I moved to a 3/4 scale of the .308 running 168's though with the 6.5 Grendel running 123's (nearly same bc and sd, almost same velocity Grendel is 52k psi so a bit slower, hand loaded they match fps) and half the recoil, unlimited barrel life, watch it all happen in the scope, and take all I need to take for game in Alberta to 400 yards, I buy cases and cases of ammo also but only local hunt from home so it works, the 308 is still the universal everywhere solution that resembles all these traits
 
Well that didn’t help my bias. Got to town finally, Fort Smith NWT, only rifle ammo is .308 180 grain, good price too. .30-30 was the only other chambering on the shelf, but out of stock.

That helps affirm my decision to go .308 for everything.

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.308s taking market share slowly but surely, they’re just too close to the same damn thing, and it fits in more actions. You’d need a pathologist and a lab to tell you the difference between a .308 and a .30-06 wound tract with the same bullet.

Get off the beaten path anywhere in the world, you’ll still find .308/7.62x51. Seen it in Zimbabwe, the Amazon, the Arctic. It’s the world’s most ubiquitous big game cartridge.
 
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