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I am sitting on my back porch looking at the backfield this evening as the sun goes down . The air has that fall chill in the air , getting close to hunting season , well dove season is in now . It got me to thinking how many calibers rifles would I like to hunt anything that doesn’t fly in North American . Here’s my list . Let’s hear yours and it doesn’t have to be 4 calibers .

Small Game - .22 long rifle
Varmint / Predator - .223
Deer size - 6.5 cm
Large Game , up to moose and brown bear - .300 Win Mag

 

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I wouldn’t want to shoot a squirrel or a rabbit with a .270 , or a .338 mag .

 

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The only shotgun that is a caliber that I know of is a 410 , rifles calibers only .

You might not hunt a certain animal class and I don’t hunt anything larger than a deer , but cover all size / classes of animals .

 

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Killed my 1st bull Elk with a 12g slug, and a lot of deer and pigs. For some, the shotgun with slugs is THE big game getter.

True , I mostly use a shogun . I live in a shotgun only county for deer . But this thread is about rifle calibers to cover every animal in North America , even if you don’t or haven’t hunted that class of animal , maybe a fantasy thread and not real life . Most of us will probably never hunt a elk , moose , or a brown bear .

 

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I guess you better head shoot then squirrels .

 

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A lot of y’all don’t read the OP .