What’s your five? 5 Calibers to do it all...

[JiggyIi]

For Hunting Purposes only:
12ga
.270 winchester (already own)
.300 weatherby (own already)
.378 weatherby
.416 weatherby

Gotta Love the Weatherby️every Tom Dick & Harry has tried to get their velocities by either new cartridges or by Improving & in almost all cases Weatherby is Still King ️

 

[nsanders2440]

Gotta Love the Weatherby️every Tom Dick & Harry has tried to get their velocities by either new cartridges or by Improving & in almost all cases Weatherby is Still King ️

Really amazing to see those guys do what they did without the technology that we have today. Not much improvements on the "new" and improved cartridges.

 

[Martin@Hin]

Well a 6,5 Greed More for steel and golf balls.
A.300 PRC be course they reinvented the wheel.
A ,340 WTB , next a 375 H&H be course they are immortal.
For arguments one needs a .416 Rigby.
Any money left 338 LP H50

 

[NW NM hunter]

I personally go with the new loads not for the hype but the twist rates as they give higher bc options without custom rifles.

223/5.56 cheap and should always be avaliable

6 creedmore, don't have one yet but want one for antelope and coyotes, i.e. I look at it as a current 243.

6.5 creed shooting steel and good for training newer shooters without burning up barrels.

7prc, I have one and love it. Very versatile similar to a 300wm which I'm sure some will disagree with. But covers elk and deer well. 7saum or 28 nos would be similar but slightly different velocity windows.

300prc, again I want one and don't yet have one. At 220+grains is big enough to take anything I would be interested in.

 

[Martin@Hin]

I personally go with the new loads not for the hype but the twist rates as they give higher bc options without custom rifles.

223/5.56 cheap and should always be avaliable

6 creedmore, don't have one yet but want one for antelope and coyotes, i.e. I look at it as a current 243.

6.5 creed shooting steel and good for training newer shooters without burning up barrels.

7prc, I have one and love it. Very versatile similar to a 300wm which I'm sure some will disagree with. But covers elk and deer well. 7saum or 28 nos would be similar but slightly different velocity windows.

300prc, again I want one and don't yet have one. At 220+grains is big enough to take anything I would be interested in.

Morning
, My choices are for the 6.5 be course its accurate,I have a Stag 223 but my government is going to steal it

The 300prc they tightened up the chamber,parallel throat,faster twist [like you say] for the high BC bullets all this stuff was well known , if WTB would have the 1/2" of free bore of there rifles and made that in a tight parallel throat the would have been a miles ahead of the PCR concept.
I live in Grizzly country so a 340 works well for me.
375 is my walking the dog gun.
416 Rigby .... life would be meaning less lol
Have a great day.

 

[choprzrul]

I'm pretty certain I can do everything I see myself doing with these:

22LR
223 Howa Mini action with 51gr Absolute Hammer
30-30 Trapper 94 with 170gr Sierra flat nose
6.5 CM Savage ultralight 20" with 85gr Hammer Hunters
270 WSM Browning XBolt with 122gr Hammer Hunter Tipped

 

[dgr416]

416 rem mag for stuff that bites bears and Africa
338-378 weatherby my favorite Alaska rifle and I will use it for elk when I go
338 win mag favorite deer rifle for 35 years
260 rem fun to shoot accurate and killls deer 100 percent with right bullets
223 good varmint round

 

[redneckbmxer24]

223
6 ARC
6.5 Creedmoor
7 PRC
375 H&H

And of course a 22LR, 12ga, and 20ga.

I've got all of those and there's nothing I couldn't do with them and some are close enough to others that they overlap and work as a backup.

 

[catch 22]

.223
6.5×55
30-06
357Mag rifle and pistol
45ACP
Yep, I COULD make due with just these calibers plus the gifted 22lr and 12ga.

 

[akmtnhnt]

22LR
223
284win
44mag pistol and lever
12ga

 

[Taylorbok]

If you are going to "do it all" your list must include a rimfire, a shotgun, a pistol round and a .223/5.56 so you really only have one personal choice.

 

[redneckbmxer24]

If you are going to "do it all" your list must include a rimfire, a shotgun, a pistol round and a .223/5.56 so you really only have one personal choice.

Go back and read the first page…

 

[memtb]

If you are going to "do it all" your list must include a rimfire, a shotgun, a pistol round and a .223/5.56 so you really only have one personal choice.

Well now….that simplifies things a bit! Especially if your a hand loader and bullet bullet caster!

* 22 rimfire in both rifle and handgun

* 460 S&W handgun- light loads with light cast (300 grains) for small game/close range small big game, 400's pushed hard for most any big/dangerous game, and my shot shells duplicating a 2 1/2" 410 shotgun shell (plastic shot cup, 1/2 ounce of #8 shot, standard powder charge for a 2 1/2" 410)

* .223 Rem. in a rifle and a Contender (varmints/small big game/defense)

* my .375 AI - with cast bullets ( duplicates the old 38-55 Win) versatile enough for small game to smallish big game (Antelope/deer, ect) at close range . Then step up to either cup and core or mono bullets - pushed hard they're easily good for soft skinned big game out beyond 700 yards, or any dangerous game on Earth at reasonable/responsible hunting distances

* 12 gauge shotgun

That should cover most any need/want her on Earth! memtb

 

[bigsk]

Not an easy answer since there are so many choices..... Forgoing the obligatory 22lr and 12 ga, I will go with what I already have and use.

44 Mag (pistol and rifle)
250 Savage
300 Wby
375 H&H
405 Win