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7.62x39 is my choice also. ammo cheap.,200yard knockdown good.very accurate in a good bolt gun,also in a ar platform . low recoil. easy to load for. favorite deer hunting round. oh also dont mess up to much meat. i use speer golddot bullets in a wolf steel case. works for me.
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Hard choice to pick one , 30-06 if I can only have one I guess.Changed my mind as soon as I voted.
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im a hunter so its an easy answer. 06 all the way. it can be loaded up or down to do about any animal in the US. From squirrels with cast to griz with good 180s.
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I love my .357 SIG. Good for black bear when hiking with my kids, and general self defense.
.45’s are nice, but things just explode more when hit with the SIG. It’s made me want a Kimber K6 .357 Mag, so I can have a slim carry in summertime.
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.30-06
Bullets from 100gr to 220gr. Can be loaded down to squirrels and up to moose, elk, and bear. And you can probably (in normal times) find .30-06 ammo on the Moon.
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I scavenged the moon last month. No more ammo up there either.
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12 gauge for sure. Its so versatile, I'd feel wrong leaving it out. As far as metallic cartridges go, .45-70 gets the win for it's ability to fire anything from a 125ish gn round ball at squirrel hunting velocities to 500+grain grizzly stompers. You can get revolvers, and even Derringers chambered for it. Most of all that cartridge and the guns chambered for it are ideally suited to shooting cast boolits at full power. You leave nothing on the table for hunting anything in North America out to 200 yards.
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500 Linebaugh. It's not SAAMI, I don't think, but it is factory chambered and commercially loaded.
Just because...
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Bogus Poll ... Need one rifle and one handgun and one shotgun .
My Dad lived and hunted his entire adult life , hunting lots of small game birds , larger ducks and geese . Small game , rabbits , squirrels , a few coons , possums and armadillo's .
White tail deer , wild hogs and a turkey .
His whole life he hunted with a Sears Roebuck bolt action 16 ga. shotgun he bought in 1946 when he got out the Navy and went Rabbit hunting with his cousin's .
Said he always meant to buy a better gun ...but with birdshot , buckshot and slugs it was all he ever needed and my old man didn't spend any money if he didn't absolutely have too ...
Mamma said she forced him to take her to the hospital for me and my brother to be born !
I could probably get by with a scatter gun and assortment of shells .
12 ga. because of availability of different ammo , but 20 ga. would do .
Shotgun makes a dandy self defense tool .
Gary
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Rifle: 30-06
Handgun: 38 Special
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Marlin 1894 CST 357 Magnum. Lightweight and flexible in that it can take 357 mag and 38 SPC.
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I voted 7-08, simply because it's the best, and most accurate rifle I own. If I was starting from scratch, I'd choose 308.
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Hands down, 45 Colt. Bullets from 185-300 or more. Powder can be BP to pistol to shotgun...
Easy to load and handle
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Y'all are killing me. I'm down to 5 and thought I was doing OK.
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.45 acp: very useful for all activities required for survival out to 50- 100M, firearm dependant. Hunting, Defense, recreation. It is arguably , third or so on the list of remaining popular calibers so if a run was made on ammo ( current events) I am still able to find componants vs 9mm. It has a wide array of useful componants and reloading recipes. It is also extremely easy to load with bare minimum equipment. Just my 2 cents.
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The 22 LR, easy answer. A single shot and a little ingenuity and I can shoot clothes pins off of a clothes line at 100, quietly.
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38-55 good all around load
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Think I'm still in the .22 rimfire camp. But if I lived on the plains or in the desert or in griz country my choice would probably be different.
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my choice is 30-30 ammo is plentiful & good deer shell
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The one I had from the beginning .... 338 win. mag., because it is enough for me for everything.