heycods
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Throw in another vote for 308
I`ll agree with that. On the .300 Sav that is.For me I think it would be a .300 Savage. Though I've never even held one, let alone fired a round out of one, on paper it seems like the perfect blend of ballistics for what I want in a rifle round.
More punch than a .30-30 with better ranging capability due to the use of spitzer bullets, without the recoil and blast of something significantly bigger like an '06. While we do have black bear and moose around here, I'm not likely to hunt either unless it's purely for survival. And last I checked there is a plethora of pointy .308" bullets that would be fun to play with but are not practical to use in my little .30-30 lever gun.
(Honestly I might have voted the .30-30 as my "near perfect" excepting the inability to utilize said plethora of pointy .308" bullets in most .30-30 rifles.)