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    This is really a click bait post isnt it ?

    What on earth will chat GPT make of it ?
    The lads have rogered the content good and proper.

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    well for mer the mighty no4mk1 1943 longbranch .303 with 18ogn soft nose round nose slug.now she may be slow ,but hell goes through trees and aint seen one yet who played wicketkeeper survive the delivery.must admit though tad rough on smaller stuff ,turned a hare into 99%compost leaving one back foot and a piece of ligament.cousin used it on a possum,having forgotten to bring the ammo for his old mans .270-yeah well skinnin the aussie bastrd was out of the question after that.MD-a bit like the other you problem solved with the .270

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    Quote Originally Posted by Allizdog View Post
    Dosnt have the knock down of a 30cal though eh.
    And can you buy that off the shelf?
    For a given cartridge, you get the most kinetic energy with the biggest bore. Overbore variants like the 25-06 and even the 6.5 Cr strangle themselves and compromise on brute power. Also if you compare KE across bullet weights in the same cartridge it seems to be more power at the lighter bullets. Booth somewhat untrendy trends this year.

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    308 of course

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    Quote Originally Posted by Younghunter123 View Post
    Interested to hear what your one calibre and load would be for a do it all and what rifle .
    For me this would be either a 7mm08 or 284win, 20 inch barrel, supressor and a lightweight/compact dialup scope in a carbon stock. Load would be a 162gr ELD-M. Result a light, handy rifle that you can hunt bush-tops.

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    For about a year in my early 20s I only had a 270 to shoot.
    I had sold my 22 and 303 to put a deposit on an Anschutz 22 and then had to wait nearly a year for it to arrive

    My friends though it was nuts using the 270 for everything.
    But I was a reloader and it was a very accurate rifle.
    Pre ballistic charts
    Pre range finder
    Pre dial up scopes
    Pre massive magnification

    I had a hunting dog to feed and it was fine on hares and rabbits as long as you only took head shots.

    So not much real progress in 40 years then
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    Slightly different approach but if I was you focus on the rifle.
    Look around, go into a gun shop and handle some rifle. Get an idea of what you would like and what fits you. Once you have that sudsed then calibre sorts itself. You may end up with 2-8 calibre choices and reality is they all kill animals! I’m closer to 60 than I want to be and I’ve hunted since I was 14, killed first 6 animals with open sight .303 (my son used same rifle recently to kill a deer) Then I was onto 6.5x55, .243, .308, 7mm/08, and now I have (2) 6.5 CM - one 16inch suppressed and one 22inch.
    One of life’s true joys is buying a new rifle, a new scope - calibre? No idea but whatever suits the hunting you are doing the most of. Buy two rifles if you want to shoot rabbits and deer.

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    First up I’d say 308 Win. With 150 gr projectiles, have shot everything from mice upwards with this combo. Have to say 223 Rem with 55/62 gr projectiles comes second for me, only Fiordland Wapiti to complete the list with this combo. Has to be said, frig-all margin for error with some of the bigger species.

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    Yeah a lot of different cartridges to suit different peoples needs wasn’t a question for my search purposes was just interested to hear what others options would be as for many it is a hard question to answer when you know you have to miss out on all the good offerings

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    308 with 18in barrel.Hornady 150gr ssts or cheap 147gr for small game.
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    6.5 creedmoor shooting 143 eldx's

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    Shut up, get out & start pushing!

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    Tikka 7mm08, 308 or 270 and go hunting. They will all go bang and ethically kill any Nz game animals inside 400m. Don’t get hung up on all the Ballistic numbers because realistically it doesn’t bloody matter if you put it in the right spot. The little I have had to do with the smaller 6.5s I have found them not to kill as well as the likes of the 7mm08 and 308, small sample size so there might be others correct me , but I know I will never own one
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    7mm08 for me

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    I would choose a 7 x 57, ethically kill any animal in New Zealand very efficiently

 

 

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