OMG........where do I start..........23 Pipsqueak for the two blacktails and coues..........234 Douglas for mulies and WT and possibly some sheep and caribou...........234 Penguin for pronghorn and another species or 2 of caribou........234 Hyrax for cougar and blackbear..........234 Lynx for muskox and maybe Shiras moose................340 Wby......for everything else that I can't remember !!!
Your Battery of 29 firearms to cover the NA29...
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Ya Hoyt but at least mine are all on different cases, kinda like the 6.5 family, you know..........260 Rem, 6.5X55, 6.5-284, 6.5 RM, 6.5-06, 264 WM.........see all the same caliber but all different cases for different tastes and applications..........not all the same case and caliber to the excess of 29.........and I thought I had serious redundancy with five 243s................JEEEEZZZZEEEE
Inventory done 52 308 and 2 customs on their way ( one BA and one AR-10) so at 54 just 46 shy of my first hundred of magnificent 308... In a way it's good you guys dont like the 308 to much, it give me all the room to get them for myself, it's my pleasure to leave to you, all the 234-456-789... Lol. JP.
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You're not helping yourself here JP!
Who says we don't like the .308??? I have three, a Ruger Gunsite Scout, a M77 Hawkeye and a BLR... and many others of the .308 family... but "54" is a tad over-the-top... can you even shoot that many, or are you just collecting every variation that you can find? Every thought of ditching a few for .243, .260, 7mm-08, .338 Fed or .358 Win... same cone but different flavour???
Some, i dont shoot no more, Sako TR-22/ Nemesis/ Model 100 / Model 88 / PMll 69 Steyr / Steyr Elite /10 308 rifles are loaners for friends and family, those are under one K rig / 3X BLR 81 308/ Tikka 695 / Sako Finnlight/ FNH Patrol rifle/ Savage Model 99 X3 ... I sometime buy 2 at the time... 2X SSG-3000 / 2X SA NM M1A / 2 X FNAR Competition / 2 X Scout Steyr 308... It's not worst than collecting expensive stamps... And they are more exciting... JP.
So not only you have 54 rifles in the same caliber (.308 Win of all choices 
) but you have double and triples of the exact same rifle in the exact same chambering. I'll have to agree with c-fbmi, "dedication" maybe the wrong choice of word!
) but you have double and triples of the exact same rifle in the exact same chambering. I'll have to agree with c-fbmi, "dedication" maybe the wrong choice of word!
I don't know... I think JP has a pretty interesting collection yes all 308 but in every conceivable type of action/rifle. Much more interesting than collections consisting of reams of nothing but walnut blued bolt actions even if they are in different calibres
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Not sure if this is a offshoot of the "ultimate NA rifle thread". One rifle between 6.5 and 30 cal to handle about 20 of the 29, a dozen calibers or more work.. One rifle set as a long range lightweight for sheep/goats...for me that would be my 300 Rum....the extra weight i will live with. One stomper to handle the things that want to eat you and include you on their Yukon 10 list. For me that is my 375 Rum.
I use my 308 for hunting, LR shooting, plinking, range fun and plain fun...
If you are not hunting, what kind of fun can you have with a 375H&H or 340 Wtby...
If you go in the AR dept, 223 is fun but when you get in AR-10, this is serious fun, i give myself 2 more years and i will reach 100 rifles in 308...
You westerners consider it like a pea shooter but for me it is the ultimate caliber and this caliber is offered in the coolest rifles ever...
When i start a young hunter with a 308, i know, he is setup for success... JP.
If you are not hunting, what kind of fun can you have with a 375H&H or 340 Wtby...
If you go in the AR dept, 223 is fun but when you get in AR-10, this is serious fun, i give myself 2 more years and i will reach 100 rifles in 308...
You westerners consider it like a pea shooter but for me it is the ultimate caliber and this caliber is offered in the coolest rifles ever...
When i start a young hunter with a 308, i know, he is setup for success... JP.
I have endless fun at the range with my 340s, 375s, 378, 416, 470 NE etc, etc, etc............................and I'm in the process of building a wildcat 458 for even more fun............what fun is an endless array of 308s........(YAWN)............
I see both points... for the masses that punch paper at 100 or 200 yards, squeezing the trigger, hearing a bang and seeing a hole, can be done considerably cheaper and with less physical impact with small bore centerfires... most of my 100 m shooting is with .22 K-Hornet, .223 and .243... every now and then I spice it up with pistol calibers (carbines) and larger centerfires, .30/30, .260, 7mm-08, .308, .300 RCM, .338F, .358W, .350RM, .45/70 etc... etc... for most of my hunting rifles, range time is in load development and set-up... not necessarily just to shoot. My range sessions are usually upwards of 500 centerfire rounds plus a brick or two of rimfire... I generally make a day of it...
Unlike JP though... I am not a semi fan...
