Your 3 favorite hunting cartridges of all time

[OLB]

25/06
350RM
450/400

 

[Nomore606]

30-30 Win (took my first deer with it)
7x64 Brenneke (taken elk, Barbary sheep, and plenty of deer)
348 Win (fun underrated caliber)

 

[Thedoveshooter]

6.5x55mm Swedish (this is my "go to" rifle here in Texas)
.264 Win Mag
8x57mm

 

[Jack Stevens]

Depends on what big game I’m likely to hunt and where, and no doubt there will be overlap, but for a general three cartridge-based battery of rifles for the USA, to include the big stuff in AK like caribous, moose, and bears:

1) .30-06;
2) .350 Remington Magnum;
3) .404 Jeff.

For a three cartridge-based battery of rifles for African plains game and the various DG:

1) .300 H&H;
2) .375 H&H;
3) .404 Jeff.

 

[VINOYASADO]

1) 338 Win Mag
2) 9,3 x 62
3) 416 Rem Mag (never see, hold or shoot one...just love the ballistics )

 

[dgr416]

The 260 rem 338-378 Weatherby and 416 rem mag .I have had a good tome with all three. I needed the 338 win mag in there I hunted with it 35 years

 

[Mark haynes]

300 win mag, 25-06, 243. Can’t do without

 

[Sourdough]

300 Wby
375 H&H
475 No 2 Jeffery

 

[Switup]

7mm and 30 diameter cartridges. You don't need magnums unless you want to. If you don't reload, find a great factory hunting round and you should be good. As for specific caliber.... Just pick one that you like and can handle the recoil.

 

[WH1]

270
30-06
375H&H

 

[Newboomer]

270
30-06
375H&H

22lr
30-06
375H&H.

 

[LHMark]

22LR
6.5x55
300 H&H

 

[geoff rath]

Interesting how often the 9.3X62 features; 20 years ago it would have been a rarity(in the US) on this list... a117-year-old Euro cartridge, growing more and more popular ..

 

[Rare Breed]

The 375 WBy thread got me thinking of my favorite hunting cartridges off all time.

Here are mine:

22 LR
9.3x62 (followed close my a 375 wby--less bark with the 9.3)
450/400 3" (really it was the gun it was in--but was a sweet shooting as they come)

Ed

Interesting…my observation is you can see the North America hunters who grew up like me with 22 LR and 30-06 versus African hunters who grew up with big bores

 

[bobdahunter84]

7MM Weatherby Mag
30-06
338 Win Mag
375 H&H

I initially left 7MM Weatherby off but the list needs something less than 30 cal, and that's my favorite under 30. Couldn't eliminate one of the other 3, so I guess I have 4...

 

[jnmullins]

257 Roberts
Tie between 30-06 and 300 Win Mag
375 H&H

 

[Fatback]

22 LR
300 Win Mag
375 H&H

 

[FrontLines]

.264 Win Mag
8x57mm
6.5x55mm

 

[Northern Shooter]

6.5x55, 45-70 and 375H&H. Hoping to add a true big bore to the collection soon.

 

[CastShooter]

I hate these, if I have to include small game then it has to be:
22 LR
8x57
12 Ga

If it's just large game, that's easier, it would be:
6mm ARC
303 British
8x57 (loaded to proper spec in modern rifles)

Beyond that, I personally love all things that go bang, doesn't matter to me at all, I'll shoot it all!