Favorite do-all rifle

[memtb]

now that's a great all arounder!

Thank You…..I'm pretty darn partial to it! memtb

 

[kgarrett]

Gunwerks Nexus in 300 PRC shooting 208 gr LRX. If I ever get to go buffalo hunting in Africa, I'd have to borrow a rifle, but for everything else it should be plenty.

Course it's a switch barrel and I also have a 6.5 PRC barrel for it as well . No matter, definitely my current favorite and the last rifle I'd give up.

 

[Critter Picker]

If I could only have 1 rifle it would have to be my TC Encore. I have several barrels for it that would cover all my bases.

 

[Brushcutter]

My mother bought my father a Savage model 99E in .308 Winchester in 1960 on his 30th birthday. I tried more than a few times to get him to shoot other rifles/cartridges unsuccessfully over the years. His last hunting season was 2015 at the age of 85. He gave it to my son. As for me, my .280AI built around a Defiance action with a minor hesitation while glancing at my X-Bolt in 7mm-08.

Wow! My dad bought his 300 Savage 99 about 1970 when we came home from visiting grandparents one evening to find a bear after our turkeys in the backyard pen. His deer rifle till then was a 44-40 Winchester (sadly, traded for the 99). When Dad quit hunting 10 or 12 years ago, he gave the 99 to my son. 20 years ago I got a 99f in 308, put a 2-7x Nikon on it. It fits me wonderfully! Feels like I could almost shoot birds on the wing. With about 15 other rifles that would be fine for deer, the 99 is "my deer rifle ". Often, elk too.

 

[NorthernShot]

Best do all RIFLE…? That's a hard one for me. I guess for me it would have to be my Remington 700 BDL in 30-06 Springfield. I've really been loving my Weatherby Mark V Ultra Lightweight in 6.5-300 Wby Mag as my do-all and it's really been amazing at killing everything it's pointing at for the past 2 years. But my 30-06 has done the same thing with 165 gr Accubonds cooking out the barrel at about 2950 fps for the 10 years preceding me starting hunting with the 6.5-300 using 127 gr LRX.

The reason my Remington 700 in 30-06 would get the nod is it's a 22" barrel instead of a 26" + muzzle break which makes it easier to handle in the bush and to hunt Bison in BC there's a caliber restriction and the minimum is a 175 gr bullet that retains 2000+ ft-lbs at 100 m. So switching my load to a 175 gr Barnes LRX is going to be a fun reloading challenge now!