Do you ever

[merlin101]

Oh yeah, the worst was when I made a last minute change in caliber and forgot to take the correct ammo! Good thing I keep a small stash of different calibers at the cabin.

[dverna]

Nope, I have caliber specific guns for what I hunt. My deer gun is a.308 and it will be used for bear when I get a permit. If I draw an elk permit, it will be the .300 Mag. Varmints get the .223. I do so little hunting that working up hunting loads for every gun I have is not something I wish to do. Many guns are just shot for fun.

KISS. One gun/one load/one scope setting. Know the trajectory if a long shot is needed.

[rking22]

Oh yeah, having that debate presently. Generally ends up being something I am the most interested in playing with. All my guns are for hunting, in general, few exceptions but most all get a hunt in. Same issue when I go squirrel hunting, quail, doves.... I have trouble with commitment .

Right now it's between 2 revolvers and a Ruger #1 in 7.62x39.... the 94 Big Bore always hunts!

[trapper9260]

Is there a support group for this.LOL

[Tripplebeards]

Nope, safe and a half full of firepower and the same 7600 30-06' goes out on opening day every year loaded with reloaded 180 gr core-locts since 1984. Cheated in her once and shot a nice 10 point opening day with my 4.5x14 leupold target optic 300 rum straight below my tree stand at a about 15'. All I saw was brown blur in my scope and got lucky n tagged it behind the shoulder on a dead run.

I think this year it's going to stay at home since my special order 7600 35 whelen carbine came in two days ago.

Same with my 12 gauge shotgun for coyote hunting and 19 gauge for turkeys.

I started small game hunting last year for the first time since the early eighties and rotate rimfires.

[Thundarstick]

The gun is dictated by where I will be hunting. I use the one that is best suited to the most likely shot.

That rite there for deer hunting, and I ONLY own a 28ga shotgun.

BUT, I run into the gun issue squirrel hunting. Do I take a semi auto, ok which one, or a bolt action, wait a T-bolt, ok which one, I know, I'll go irons only and take one of the BL22, subsonic or HV, what about a suppressor? Most of the time it's the suppressed T-bolt synthetic with ELEY SSHP.

[robinsroost]

I have way too many to choose from. In rifles I have .223, .243, 6mm, .270, .308, .44 magnum, .45 Colt and muzzleloaders in .50 and .54. In handguns I have 3ea in .357, 2 in .44 magnum, 1 in .41 magnum, 1 in .45 Colt and 2 .44 muzzleloader C&B's. Keep yer powder dry...…….robin

[Texas by God]

I may use the dash system this year. 30-30, 44-40,& 38-55.....

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[GunnyJohn]

I'm having that dilemma right now. For deer season do I take my 30-30 with cast, or 300 Savage with J-words. Elk season, .54 cal Hawken, or 35 Whelen. Sometimes you are in thick stuff, other times you may have to take a 2-300 yrd shot to fill the freezer. I will probably take all of them, and take it day by day.

[WRideout]

When I hunt Allegheny County, it's shotgun or muzzle loader only, and I have both. Still working up loads for the Win 1200 12 ga, and the CVA 50 cal.

Wayne

[trapper9260]

When I hunt Allegheny County, it's shotgun or muzzle loader only, and I have both. Still working up loads for the Win 1200 12 ga, and the CVA 50 cal.

Wayne

Check the twist on your CVA 50 cal. that will help you on working the load up.I found out the hard way .

[sharps4590]

I used to struggle with that decision. Not any longer as it's become quite simple. I take a different rifle every time I head for the woods. However, opening morning ALWAYS finds me in my blind or stand with my 1870's era, E. Goldmann, German double rifle in 11.15 X 60R. After that I grab whatever suits my fancy for the next hunt. Might be my 8 X 56 Mannlicher/Schoenauer or my Shiloh Sharps in 45-90 or any of a myriad of old rifles in old cartridges.

[Jeff Michel]

My hunting buddy and me begin worrying about what rifles to carry next season on the last day of the current one. Pretty good problem to have.

[Camba]

Ever since I decided to go bullet casting for hunting I acquire that dilema or ‘multi-lema’ I should say.
I have killed deer with cast boolits in 44 mag and also with muzzle loaders. Those cast boolits were commercially purchased.
The day I started casting my own, the fun begin but I have yet to kill one with my own cast boolit with a rifle. I do shoot 98% of my rifle loads with cast boolits in calibers from 5.7x28FN to now the 45-70 Govt.
My 30-30 win, 358 Win, 7mm-08 Rem, 44 Mag, 444 Marlin, and 223 Rem have great accurate loads up to 2000 fps. The most accurate of all is my 7mm-08 t/c encore; but when it comes to pick which rifle to take, I get the same situation you guys have. I thought it was just me.
I had been thinking a lot on consolidating to one or two calibers and master them with a trusty load.
If I can keep the 7mm-08 for an all around hunt and the 358win for deer hunting. But then again, I will not get rid of all the other caliber either. So there you go.
Camba


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[Hogtamer]

1) my old recurve bow; 2) my old shotgun, 12 or 20; 3) my old Abolt .270
I've got multiples of above that I shoot but when it's real meat time I know what to pick up.

[robinsroost]

[QUOTE=Texas by God;4436706]I may use the dash system this year. 30-30, 44-40,& 38-55.....


I like your train of thought, I'm thinking 25-20 for squirrels and sitting rabbits and 44-40, 38-55 and 30-40 Kraig for deer. Keep yer powder dry...…...robin

[Italia1825]

Nope, grab one and go. It’s a much better option then sitting at home thinking about it


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[brass410]

I just take all of em they enjoy an outing as much as I do

[TCLouis]

Type38 6.5X57 cause it has never been out of state.
Type 99 cause it has load with same point of impact out to 50 plus for Ranch Dog and NBT
Searschester 06 cause I have never shat a deer with it
7-08 CVA Hunter cause I got a load that shoot well out of it and I would like to see the 120 NBT perform.
At least that will take care of the trip for next week.
Hope to have some 200 grain 338 RCBSs for hunting the rest of the season in TN with some loads as suggested by winelover

[RP]

I started a program to take a deer with every gun I have that is legal to hunt with I was working my way threw the safe until I got a 243. I am now on the second year of hunting with it but still have legal deer guns I have not use yet. Its light it low recoil so I can see impact even at close range and its a deer killer. I have a new 270 that has not taken a deer yet along with some I have had for along time but I keep picking up the 243 lol.
My son has stopped taking a rifle to the woods be wants pistol kills and if he has a rifle he uses it out of habit. He called me on the phone and you would have thought he just took a monster buck but it was a spike but it was taken with his glock 10 mm and a cast bullet. I asked him why not the 45 lc I gave him he said that would have been to easy I was thinking not at my age son but kept my mouth shut and let him enjoy the kill.