Do all rifle???

[Robert M Boren Sr]

30/06 hands down, I live in Montana and have taken it all with it with no problems.

 

[Possum Cop]

I would build one that can do a switch barrel set up and one the the owner can do at home for main cal 6.5 PRC shoulder fit barrel or savage nut system then if you want add different cal barrels and bolt heads when you want at home or on the range in under 20 mins

I have a Master Piece Arms with a switch lug. I like it a lot and you can change calibers or barrels with a star wrench and your hands.

 

[Coyote Shadow Tracker]

Just get an over/under with a 22 mag on top and 12guage bottom. Take a handfull of 22s some bird shot, buck shot and slugs. Can kill anything that walks, crawls, flies, swims on this planet within range!

 

[NielsC]

270 Winchester short magnum might be perfect for me where I live in the South. But the farther North you go the more that 270 grain bullet moving over 3000 fps becomes what you really want for your do all rifle. For elk moose and grizzly bear that 338 caliber bullet fits the bill a whole lot better. Of course that means you have to deal with whatever added weight there is in your platform. And I still prefer 22 long rifle for squirrels in South Arkansas. But you won't catch me taking my squirrel rifle on a bear hunt.

There have been times that my 458 Win Mag with a 600 grain bullet felt like a squirrel gun. Dangerous game is just that.

 

[Biggs300]

My two most accurate rifles are a 7mm-08 and a 9.3x62. If I lived and hunted in Alaska or anywhere else that had brown bears, I'd pick my 9.3x62 hands down. Where I do most of hunting now, my 7mm-08 is all I need. Since 300 yards is my self-imposed limit either rifle works fine and can be loaded up or down for ethical shots. I have a 300WM, but lt pretty much stays in my safe.

 

[Sid Post]

My two most accurate rifles are a 7mm-08 and a 9.3x62. If I lived and hunted in Alaska or anywhere else that had brown bears, I'd pick my 9.3x62 hands down. Where I do most of hunting now, my 7mm-08 is all I need. Since 300 yards is my self-imposed limit either rifle works fine and can be loaded up or down for ethical shots. I have a 300WM, but lt pretty much stays in my safe.

The 9.3x62 is a vastly overlooked and underrated caliber IMHO. With near 375H&H performance, I'm surprised it hasn't found more use in the USA for heavy game or in Alaska for big bears.

 

[Wapity hunter]

Here in NZ the 270WSM is the ideal all round calibre.
We dont have bears so im not saying there suitable for grizzly bears, but we have elk ,or wapity and my 270 wsm pole axes them at 500 metres (600yards) With the correct projectile for the intened game the 270 wsm is ideal.
On elk (wapity) our biggest game animal in NZ i use the 145gran eldx . At 500metres it still has 1987 ft/lb . Muzzel vocity 3330 fps out of a suppressed sako 85.

 

[Jlusk]

30-06 or 300WM, most stores stock factory ammo for both and you'll never run out of ammo components for either caliber.

 

[Treeslug]

I've heard this story quite too often. This works but only when you don't have a hungry bear. If you have a hungry bear and shoot the guide in the foot, the bear will then get a "two-for-one" special and he'll save the wounded one for seconds!!!

Okay, so shoot the bear in both feet on his right side, and the guide in the knee. If that doesn't work, use the last round on yourself. Pretty much anything has to be better than being eaten alive by a ticked off bear with two bullet holes in his feet.

 

[Jlusk]

The 9.3x62 is a vastly overlooked and underrated caliber IMHO. With near 375H&H performance, I'm surprised it hasn't found more use in the USA for heavy game or in Alaska for big bears.

It's a great round but factory ammo is extremely scarce even up here in Alaska. I can get 375, 416, and 458 pretty much anywhere I go even with the short supply of other calibers (Anchorage area). Cost is another factor with 9.3x62, we can buy 2 and sometime 3 boxes of factory 375 for the cost of 1 box of 9.3x62.

 

[griz375]

A well placed shot a 270 with a 150 grain or heavier Swift A-Frame, or Barns tsx will kill anything on this continent. Keep in mind here in Alaska a majority of bears are killed inside 100 yards so you want to keep the muzzle velocity in the 2900-3000 fps range which will improve short range penitration, yet allow full expansion.

 

[Deleted member 115751]

If you had to choose one rifle to hunt everything from antelope to elk, what would it be? This rifle must use components that are readily available. It must also be a caliber that is inherently accurate. No need to waste 600 rounds of 1000 round barrel life doing load development. I want to build a rifle but can't decide what to build.

The 300 Winchester Magnum without a doubt. It's a 30 caliber bullet that does plenty of damage for even the largest game. It shoots very flat and very far if you are up to it. It can be loaded down to a lighter bullet and powder charge so that it works plenty good on goat, sheep and antelope but when needed you can load it up with a heavier bullet and higher powder charge to take on Elk, Moose and brown bear. It's probably the most flexible cartridge out there and the ammo is cheap compared to some of the more exotic stuff. Yes there are other cartridges that will beat it but the ammo for them is expensive and in some cases hard to find.

 

[Treeslug]

Relatively rare! Find one that likes hunting, envisions of hunting large dangerous game. Also, willing to put in the miles required on many big game hunts, can tough it out through rough weather/terrain, will do whatever necessary to participate in the hunt.....from all of the previously mentioned items to putting an elk quarter on her backpack for the carry out! Then you patiently allow her to develop into a competent, comfortable shooter of said rifle/cartridge by using it on various animals under varying situations, do not insist that she shoot lots of rounds from the bench.......most important, she must "want" to!

You probably should start the search while the both of you are young enough to enjoy many hours in the field together! If your searching in the malls, or at the ballet......your not guaranteed much success!

I failed to mention.....there will be a lot of luck involved! memtb

You can listen to memtb if you want to, but he is a little too practical for me.

A "Friend" of mine had a woman like you are looking for. She was a big woman, but he did not mind that at all. He took her to Africa for a plains game hunt, and she insisted on using her 338 RUM. She shot a very nice kudu bull the first evening just before sundown. It was bigger and prettier than the one he shot two days later. She got the nicest impala at the furthest distance and shot the only trophy eland they had seen in a week.

The next day my friend wounded a very nice gazelle. His wife could track anything. She would get down on her hands and knees, and she could almost smell the spoor. She went down one track, and he went down another. A few minutes later, he heard a loud shot and started heading toward the sound, believing he had heard her 338 RUM. It had been a trophy class gazelle, and though he hated to have to share the kill with his wife, it was better than losing the animal.

My friend made his way about a quarter of a mile through the thorn brush alongside a dry riverbed, and there was his wife still on her hands and knees. The gazelle was nowhere in sight, but there was another hunter and his guide standing there talking to each other and holding an expensive-looking camera.

My friend ran up to his wife and asked the other hunter and the guide what the hell was going on.

"Just about to take a photograph of me and my latest kill," said the hunter.

My friend figured the man must have shot his wounded gazelle but did not see the animal anywhere. My friend asked the hunter, "What did you kill?"

The hunter proudly lifted his left foot and put it on my friend's wife's shoulder and said, "I am not sure, but I think I have killed the first and only warthog wearing camouflage clothes and pink lipstick."

Oh, get over it, ladies. It is supposed to be a joke. After about half of a bottle of scotch, listening to the lions roaring in the distance, it is funnier.

 

[Starlite]

and use a pointy stick

Sharpen both ends. If Sh!$ gets real..well.. one end is for the bear and the other is for that lying friend who can run like an antelope!! Darwin rules must always apply. Think smarter he he runs farther.