Thread: Your cartridge of choice.

Greetings all,
I suppose the key word here is choice. I will exclude the terrible triplets .22RF, .223 and .308. Most of us will have one or more of these and often multiple of each. Between them they will do almost everything that needs to be done with a rifle with ease. Every gun shop will have examples of all three in their racks and ammo is plentiful and well priced. To be a favourite to me some effort should be required to acquire and use. My first favourite was the 6.5x55. It became my favourite around 1970 after reading a Norma ammo catalogue. Alas no rifles were available. It took until about 1990 to obtain an M38. Shot a few goats with it but it was not until 2011 that funds and my Scottish heritage made peace with each other and a new hunting rifle was purchased while sifting through the options I spotted that Tikka offered the 6.5x55 in their T3 Lite. Deal done. Some years prior in 2004 I had acquired a Sendero in 7mm Rem SAUM which is my second favourite. A nice accurate rifle but a trifle heavy which was one of the reasons for the T3 purchase. It sat in the safe for some time regardless of its favourite status but will be taken out to the thousand yard range this season.
Those are my favourites as of today and there are rifles I lust after from time to time. Perhaps some of these will find their way into my safe over time and achieve favourite status but they won't displace the current residents.
Regards Grandpamac.