I ended up carrying 5 different rifles throughout the season.

Tikka CTR 260
Tikka CTR 308
Custom on Rem 700 action 25-06
Custom on Sav 116 action 7 Rem Mag (killed a deer with it)
Rock River AR 5.56

I've used 3 in the last year...300wsm, 6 Gaymoor and 6.5 saum...currently working on 2 additional with a couple more still gathering parts for.

I hunt almost exclusively with virtually the same setup....except my rifle is a Savage with a heavy barrel and my scope is a Zeiss. It drops everything in their tracks, so why switch? (Of course, sometimes I'll shoot its twin rifle in .223 just for fun.)

Last year only 2.
Ruger M77 tang safety .338 Win Mag, topped with a Leupold 4.5x14 (Elk gun).
Weatherby Mark V .240 Wby, topped with a Leupold 3.5x10 (Deer gun).

For most of my adult life, I hunted with a .270. Then I started hunting hogs from horseback, so I got a .30/.30 and would occasionally carry it to the blind for a change. Then my Uncle Bill passed away and I inherited his Weatherby .223, and that became my go to rifle, light and easy to carry, accurate, with Zeiss Conquest glass. So for about 5 years it was the only rifle I hunted with.
Then for no discernable reason I started hunting with my .270 again.
As most of you know my Dad passed in Feb of 22, so this last year every time I went to the woods I took a different one his rifles, from the coolest to the ridiculous (for Southeast Texas whitetails). So last year I hunted with:
Sako .308
Marlin 336 in .35 Remington
Remington 600 in .222
Tikka T3 in 30-06
Ruger 77 in 7mm Mag
Winchester 70 in .243 (that I killed my first deer with as an 11 year old punkass kid)
And now for the ridiculous (just wanted to carry it ) a pre-64 model 70 in .338 win mag.
ATE the only deer I shot last year was a cull buck that I shot with the .35 Rem

I hunt with several rifles, ones I bought and ones I inherited. Sometimes I will use five different rifles in one weekend lol. Some of the guys on the lease laugh at me but I just tell them rifles are like golf clubs, sure you can play a 18 holes with one club, but who the hell wants to do that!

Several. I hunt with scoped bolt guns and open sight lever guns and occasionally a single action Ruger. I will have a bolt gun and levergun in the blind.

I have killed about 8 deer a year with my 308 for about 20 years now. My wife uses a 243, both are proven killers.
I was given a 6.5cm for Christmas and it shoots great. I shot 5 deer already without any issues. I like it with a suppressor
I think my 308 will still be my go-to gun.

Remington 600 in .222........very nice.

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Could be any combination of:

Rifle
6.5 CM
.300 Ham’r
.30-30 Win
.50 cal muzzleloader

Pistol
.44 Mag
.50 cal muzzleloader
10mm

If I’m serious, I’ll hunt with a single rifle. For does, I tend to take something different each trip to the lease.

270
25-06
257 Bob
AR for pigs and yotes

This past season I used my Sako 243, Weatherby Vanguard 25-06, and a new Bergara B14 Ridge in 7mm-08. I didn't kill a deer with any, but killed a pig with the 243 and 7mm-08 and 4 pigs with the 25-06.

Five if I decide to take one of the .270's.

I own quite a few calibers and even multiple flavors in several calibers but my go to is almost always one of my 308s.
Once in a while I'll take a 243 or even a 270WSM or even a 300WM but 99% of my trips to the stand I have a trusty 308 in tow.

I few, but my trusty 270 has always been dead on. Never missed in about 20 years with that rifle. And it’s the only rifle I own with the 100 dollar scope it came with.

The gun doesn't know or care what scope is riding on top, lol...If it shoots good, why change a thing, why they make good, expensive binocular glass, lol....

Truth! Proof is in the pudding!

I mix it up. I have a .270, 25.06, 6.5CM, 30-06, .243 so I like to show them all some love. Then the caliber will depend on exotics that I am hunting as well.

It's the expected weather and shot range that often dictates which rifle I intend to hunt with that day. If rain is expected, I'll usually take my Savage 6.5 CM with a synthetic stock. If the shots might be 200 yards or more then I'll take the Winchester Model 70 chambered in 25-06. If I'm hunting the thick woods where expected shots are much closer, I'll grab one of the 30-30's. Otherwise, it's just a matter of which one seems to carry the most luck, since after all, it's pure luck that usually matters most.

i mainly use my .308, but I take a doe and some pigs with my .30-06.

Just one of my four favorites.

Last 3 seasons it’s been my Sako 308 Finnlight II

308 Winchester
300 WSM
280 AI
7 Weatherby

...What Erny said ...I have used lots of calibers & brands of bullets ...I do have a pair of 270's, a SS Marlin & and a WW that are the base choices these days, but I'm working on getting into another 7Rmg or a 300 Wmg just for Old Times sake...prolly not gonna get back into a 9.3x62, or my first Deer caliber of a 243, only 'cause I am running out of time to go back and recreate ALL of the calibers that have harvested meat for me.

It is time I made meat with my M70 FWT 7x57 though, as it shoots SST's really accurately when I do my part.
Ron