Thread: If you were only allowed 1 rifle...

I'd still choose the 7mm Rem Mag

7mm saum 21 inch tube McMillan stock and on a ti action

NZ ? The old mans win mod 70 featherweight in 270, made around 1992 - one of the last of the push feed model but I couldn't care less as shes smooth as butter, more accurate than both of us and fits like a glove... soon to be mine hopefully

For Hunting ,

Mauser 66 , in 7x57mm
Magnum Mauser in 416 Rigby

308

Sako .308

I've probably said one before earlier in the thread but unless it was a M12 Mauser in 8x57 I changed my mind

I'd probably choose a pair of stainless sakos in 30 06 and 338, I reckon if I can't kill it with either of those I've no business hunting it.

Originally Posted by jakewire

I'd probably choose a pair of stainless sakos in 30 06 and 338, I reckon if I can't kill it with either of those I've no business hunting it.

Be bloody heavy carrying around taped together as "one" rifle.

Ture, however maybe I was mistaken but I thought the original post was one for nz and one for other.

My good old trusty sako finlite in 7mm, will take anything in this country and then some...

7mm Rem Mag, just alternating the projectile to suit the game being hunted, you will cover 99% of the hunting you would ever do, not interested in shooting Cape Buff or Hippo, 180gn Berger Vld will put down anything else. Worth remembering Roy Weatherby hunted and killed Cape Buffalo with a .257 Weatherby Mag using a 100gn Partition, one shot kill. Maybe not a full frontal charge but the point is made, you do not need a crew manned weapon of surface to air capability to shhot most game.

6.5x55

Originally Posted by gadgetman

I'd just go the humble 223, or maybe 243, for NZ for what I want to hunt. If it's something too far away for the shot then I'd use my boots some more.

I'd still go the same. Head shots leave plenty of meat on the rabbits. An accurate shot will drop anything else. May lean more towards the 243 if I can drag myself higher. 300-400m range would be plenty long enough for me. Both are now accurate enough for me.

.223 Pretty much my go to calibre for everything these days. The other rifles in my cabinet get jealous, I'm sure