I hunt may too much small game, furbearers and such to have my 1 gun be a large caliber rifle. .22 Magnum for me.

.308

I have taken over 100 animals (deer, hogs, coyotes, 2 turkeys) with the .308. Since variety is the spice of life, I have strayed and also taken deer with everything from the .223 to 12 Gauge Slugs and I come back to the .308 every. single. time.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

25-06

270 or 308

I have a wide variety of rifles and calibers, but love my .270 Winny.

For what I hunt, I would have to go with my 7-30 Waters. Winchester 94 and Contender carbine.

30-06 because I own 4.

I bet against myself getting thru all five pages, but I managed it. Not as many surprises as I might have guessed.

One rifle (cartridge, really) to hunt Texas? Make me choose and I'll select a round that I've hunted with but do not now nor have ever owned. The .30-06 Springfield can get it done on the bigger stuff and only rarely be undergunned and (due to moderate velocity and proper bullet choices) won't savage the smaller stuff. Hard to argue with anything with a track record like it has...

Mark

Probably no wrong answer for most people. I've shot many of the "standard" calibers through out my life and they all did their job. Settled on the .308 for the last 10 years. No particular reason but it does every thing I need.

6.5x47 143 grain ELD-X pushed by 36.3 grains of Varget. Shoot'em in the neck!

Remington Model 700 chambered in .270 Winchester.