The big game chambering with the longest uninterrupted reign in your safe

[Ardent]

But how many years lake?

 

[NAA]

Rem 700 in .308 Win ~ 35 yrs.

My first centerfire rifle...... and I still have it.

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NAA.

 

[Ardent]

Still have mine too. Albeit my time with it is half yours.

 

[9.3mauser]

This thread has made me feel like a cartridge slut. Rifles are in and out of rotation on a regular basis. I've had a number of .30-06's, but no single rifle has stayed more than 10 years. Other calibers, like the .270, I've tried, discarded, retried, discarded again, and now I'm on my third. I have a semi-finished custom 7x57 that's been at the smiths so long I'm not sure he remembers its still mine. That one, if both of us live long enough to see it completed, will have had the longest staying power, and I'm planning on having it buried with me.

 

[Beaumont]

7mm Rem Mag, .308

Can't ever imagine being without either. My new is the 7-08; I foresee a long and happy relationship.

 

[NAA]

Still have mine too. Albeit my time with it is half yours.

Geez, I hope I'm not twice as old.

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NAA.

 

[357Maximum]

308 Winchester (Browning Belgium made BLR $198.00 Dusts Guns Humboldt Sask) - 43 years
243 Winchester (Alpine Mauser $105.00 Arm & Navy Saskatoon Sask ) - 41 years
303 British (Lee Enfield No4 mk1 $24.95 Mcleods Hardware Biggar Sask) - 41 years
280 Remington (Ruger M77 $269.00 Lovetts Kitchener Ontario) - 36 years
30-30 Winchester (Winchester 94 $89.00 A.W Mooney Ltd. Biggar Sask) -36 years

357

 

[Royzo]

Geez, I hope I'm not twice as old.

Its not that I'm old. I got my rifle at a very young age.

 

[ErikT]

I've had a .303 Brit of one kind or another for 23 years. Shot my first deer with one, and I'll likely always own something in that calibre. My go-to deer rifle is chambered in .250-3000 Savage, but I've only had that chambering for 11 years.

 

[thepolinator]

My 12 ga Remington 870 is the only one that I have had for a notable amount of time. Got it when I turned 18. I am 24 now. So 6 years.
I have a 7x57 thats been sitting around for about 3 years and a 300 wsm for about as long.

 

[hawk-i]

I've had grandpa's 760 gamemaster 30-06 since the early 70's...don't think it's been out hunting since the early 80's. It gets its yearly clean and oil and that's about it.

 

[SHELL SHUCKER]

My Cooey model 39 has served me all too well for 47 yrs.

Larger game chambering of choice has been .375 Winchester, though the Cooey has taken more deer by far.

 

[Scroggins]

30 Remington, model 14. I got it in 1977.Knew the old fellow who bought it in 1913.

 

[TheTooner]

.303British, constant since I started, not going away.

 

[anglia2]

.303British, constant since I started, not going away.

Yup , it was my first and it'll be the last one I have until they throw the dirt on top of me .

 

[ou8u3o8]

7mm 08 for 25 years

 

[SuperCub]

Remington 760 Carbine 308 -- 25yrs
Browning A-Bolt 22/250 -- going on 20yrs

 

[John Y Cannuck]

303Br
Dates from the end of WWII when father bought it after the war for deer hunting.
Other than that, probably 30WCF it's go better than 40 years, or maybe the old Remington model 10 12 gauge if you consider a shot shell a big game cartridge. some time in the 1960's for that.

 

[07blackwater]

Model 760 in 270 for 35 years when my dad gave it to me.

He owned it since '54.

I've owned a 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser for over 40 but I've never hunted with it.

 

[saskbooknut]

30-06 the longest reign, without a doubt. 50 calibre muzzle loader the longest in use now.
Like many, the .303 British was my go to cartridge for my first 10 years.