A Rifle For All Seasons. What Caliber Is Your Choice?

[entropy]

.223/5.56. It is what SWMBO has for an HD rifle, and I certainly would be able to use it for that, I have hunted deer with it, if I'm headed to the rifle range, at least one of the .223/5.56 rifles goes with me, and for defense from predators 2 or 4 legged in the wild, an AR will be able to do the job, just keep firing until it drops.

 

[valnar]

I'd have to say the .308. I wouldn't enjoy (regularly) shooting anything more powerful. I also don't live where bears roam so that's not a worry.

If I *DID* have to account for bears, as in emergency self-defense but not ethical hunting, then a semi-auto .308 might be sufficient enough to plug 'em with a couple rounds before I died. But I just can't see answering this thread with a 375 H&H or 338 Win Mag.

So I guess my answer is an FN SCAR or PWS MK216, but I own neither.

 

[doubleh]

For all seasons in my area a 223 would do and it would be overkill for some critters. A coyote is our largest animal and they don't get large. They burn up all their calories hunting more.

 

[Nature Boy]

We seem to have a flood of this topic lately.

The answer to the question is a 12ga shotgun

 

[Art30/30]

I love the 6.5 Creedmoore and have a ton of loading stuff for it but my “baby” is that .308. If just one, then it has to be 308.

 

[ParadiseDweller]

If you had the choice of only one rifle to do most everything, protection, hunting, range work, etc. In what caliber would it be?

Like most, it would have to be the 308

 

[Savage30L]

The one person I know who actually does this, uses a .22 Magnum.

 

[Phaedrus/69]

We seem to have a flood of this topic lately.

The answer to the question is a 12ga shotgun

Probably, but not in the rifle forum.

 

[Nature Boy]

Probably, but not in the rifle forum.

Maybe so, but does the Rifle Forum really need 3 of these “if you only had one rifle” threads a week?