Help Support Long Range Hunting Forum
memtb
memth I know a lot of one gun hunters and on the east coast there are many. You would be surprised that you are far more extravagant then these guys are. One in particular is carrying the same Winchester 94 3030 with open sites as he did when I ran across him in 1974. It's the only rifle he owns and feels no need for another. He kills a buck every year so who to say he needs anything else. I also use one rifle to do most of the hunting in Md and Pa. It's a Rem 760 carbine with a 2x7 leupold on it and it shoots 165 gr noslers at 3/4 inch groups. I have many and always buying more but this one suits the hunting I do and has served me well since I bought it in 1980.Pmacc60, Meet the guy that's "satisfied" with one gun! One hunting rifle that is. While there's a bunch of rifles and handguns residing with me,I've used one rifle exclusively since 1990....one caliber since around 1982. The rifle is light enough for a sheep hunt, shoots flat enough to be easily good to 600 + yards, certainly "not" evergunned (still confused about that term), adequate for everything in NA, and legal for most of the African Big Five.
And, it's pretty darn lethal with cast bullets, as well! So, I guess that I'm that anomaly...."the one gun hunter"!
Well, there ya go.....you have now, perhaps, have met the most boring, vanilla, hunter/shooter wandering about!
memtb
I wish I knew I couldn't shoot cast lead loads through my 06 before I developed subsonic rounds for plinking and put several hundred down the pipe.
I never said there was anything wrong with the old '06. It will do everything well, except it is not ideal for dangerous game, one of the requirements. While you can kill great bears with one, I would not want to be holding one if a Brownie charged me, or if I had to go into the bushes after one. I'm just not that brave. There are places up there that are so thick it would impress a Cajun from the LA swamp. Also, larger diameter, heavier, cast bullets perform better on medium game at reduced velocities. I would tend to agree with you if confined to the lower 48, but since the OP already has a .308, I would lean more toward a 300WM or a 338, unless he wanted to trade the .308.
Would be fun to play with, wish I still had my 350 700. Biggest problem is finding brass, but I like how you think. 358-375 Ruger would be cool. I still think the best answer to the OP's question is a 375 mag. Flavor doesn't matter much.
At first the 350 came to mind.
