Thread: Your cartridge of choice.

Over my years of hunting I have collected a small range of hunting rifles chambered for cartridges suited to the type of hunting I do. It has not been by conscious choice but I seem to have ended up with a pretty conservative collection. Nothing very modern, or extreme in any way but they seem to meet my needs just fine and do what I ask of them.

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.22lr subsonic for everything from starlings to hares at close range.
.17HMR. As above at longer distance and hope to use it on wallaby shortly.
.223 Rem. The occasional rabbit or hare up to goats
.308 win. Short range (<250m) goats, deer, pigs.
7mm Rem Mag. Longer range big game. Deer, pigs, chamois, tahr.
This lot suits me well and I think I now have something for every occasion. So I will never have to buy another rifle.

Running the same, minus a longer range calibre (7mm Rem Mag).... Maybe next year if I earn my brownie points

22lr, 223 Rem, 7.62 x 39, 308 Win, 30-06, 300 win mag, 12 guage. Should cover most needs (wants)

Air rifle, 22 lr, 12 gauge shotgun, 22-250, 260 rem.

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22lr x 2, .223, 243,250 Savage, 6.5 Grendel, 270, 20g, 12g. But it can change quite easily without much thought going into it.

I am pretty plain. I don't have a large selection and have a genuine use for the calibers I have.

But if I had to chose only one cartridge to do everything it would be the humble .223
I have taken all South island game animals with it apart from wallabys. Never hunted wallabys in the south island on foot.
Have even taken a couple escaped wap hybrids with it.



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22lr, 243W, 6.5 x 55, 270W, 12g

.22LR
12g
and to be added soon, 7mm08 (yes, I know, may have to move to Auckland and start drinking lattes!)

I think this covers most eventualities for the non-obsessive

22lr, 7-08, 7x65R ( haven't actually used it yet), 9.3x62, .404 Jeffery

Originally Posted by stug

22lr, 7-08, 7x65R ( haven't actually used it yet), 9.3x62, .404 Jeffery

So your new one has arrived? Tell us about it?

.22, .17hmr, 22-250, 7.62x39, 7mm-08, 303

Near and far big and small, job done...

22lr x2, 20 gauge, 12 gauge x 4, 270 and maybe soon 303

.22, 223, 6.5x55 [x2] 30 06, 9,3x62 and a couple of twelve gauges.
223 will be a 22 250 shortly perhaps.
That about covers every thing , could see another 300 win mag or a 6.5/ 7mmsaum or 6.5 06 in there somewhere if I every get around to it.

Originally Posted by Tahr

So your new one has arrived? Tell us about it?

Not yet, hopefully here mid-December. Got the brass and dies though.