Pick two calibers

[Healy]

If you could only have two bolt action rifles what calibers would you choose? Hunting, competition either way only two calibers what would you pick?

 

[Simia Dei]

I went with 7mm SAW as it covers most bases for me and am now tossing up between 300PRC and 300NM for my magnum calibre.

 

[Mike_in_FL]

6.5 CM in a short action and probably a .280AI long action.

 

[Healy]

That’s closer to what I was thinking 6.5 creedmoor and 7rem mag

 

[Steel head]

6BR
7 saum

bigger caliber could also be 300PRC, 300 or 338 Norma.

 

[MACHTECH]

.300 Norma Mag and .375 Cheytac!

 

[DisplacedTexan]

6.5x47
7SAUM

 

[Kane0519]

223rem
6.5CM

 

[Claluja]

.308
6.5 x 47

 

[OLD308]

.308
7mm Rem Mag

 

[Gobears16]

6.5cm and 300win.... factory ammo that will always be around and the option to reload to do everything from light recoiling to hitting targets at 2000

 

[Maddybrook]

.308
.338lm

 

[Rocklong]

.204
6mm creedmoor

 

[Kickin45]

Are we talking Z-apocalypse or what we’d prefer if limited to just 2?
Apocalypse-.308 and 300wm
Just 2-338 AI variant and 6.5creed.

 

[wade2big]

SA - .308 or 6.5 creedmoor
LA - .300 win mag or 7mm rem mag

Pick one from the short action and one from the long action. The combination wouldn’t matter to me.

 

[Cheyenne Bodie]

With no real world considerations I would say 6.5G and 416 Barrett.

In the real world I'm a big fan of 308 and 300WM.

 

[Mr.BR]

6.5Creedmor & 300NM

 

[davidb187]

6 dasher for target shooting
300 win mag for hunting

 

[30338]

.223
6.5x47

 

[SD Carpenter]

6.5 creed
Aught six

 

[Mossyoak44]

SA - .308 or 6.5 creedmoor
LA - .300 win mag or 7mm rem mag

Pick one from the short action and one from the long action. The combination wouldn’t matter to me.

This! My thoughts exactly

 

[briang7511]

6.5x47 is my favorite all around cartridge
6 creed would be #2

 

[7mmFanBoy]

50 bmg
7mm mag

 

[1J04]

7MM

&

.284

 

[TylerN]

6CM & 300NM

 

[Browerka]

I'm a fan of my 6BR and a 6.5PRC

 

[brians13]

6.5 and 300 win mag

 

[bodhisafa]

6 GT

300 Norma

 

[Ranger188]

Either the 6br or 6x47 Either is very accurate for target and good from varmints to small horned stuff
And 300 NM Good to out to a mile on steel and would take most game in the states.

 

[spife7980]

Thats hard. I want to say 223 but when reloading it isnt that much different than anything else so I would probably go with a 6br for comps and fun and a 3006 for hunting and longer range. And thats probably what Im working my way towards after this dasher barrel is done for.

 

[peteryeu]

6.5CM&300NM

 

[Texaslongshot]

6.5 PRC and .300 PRC

 

[Mullhead]

260 Rem
280 AI

 

[kthomas]

6BRA and .300NM

 

[Steel head]

6BRA and .300NM

Sensible pair that covers everything short of super duper long range.

 

[delinquent pleb]

260 Rem
280 AI

That’s what I will have in a couple of months. Two awesome calibers for just about any situation.

 

[Vargmat]

I run a 6.5x47 Lapua and a .300WM, really happy with both.

 

[delinquent pleb]

I’m going to go with .223AI and .260
Two very efficient calibres for what they can do and both are highly versatile in terms of they can do and cheap’ish to run compared to similarly capable calibers.

 

[John Kuhl]

308 and 223

 

[Steel+Killer]

Well since the OP asked about picking two calibers and not two cartridges I will go with 6.5mm and .30

 

[Aries256]

6.5 Creed, and .338 Lapua

 

[47guy]

end of the world...308 and a vudoo

competition....6BRX and a vudoo

 

[Diesel65]

.300NM and 6.5 CM

 

[Campguy308]

6.5 Creed
223

I figured there would be more consistency with people's choices. A poll would be interesting.

 

[Healy]

I thought about a poll, but that would be a lot of options on 1 poll

 

[BurnOut]

.223 AI
.338 LM AI

Kinda one extreme to the other, but if I'm going to be limited to just two...

 

[Ravenworks]

22LR
308

 

[MarineRabbit]

6.5x55 for target/everything deer sized and smaller.

9.3x62 for everything else

 

[wonderdogroscoe]

Being an old guy, also my first post on this forum, I am not a flavor of the month kinda guy and don't like the metric system so I am going with : .277 and .458. In other words 270 Win and 45-70 Govm't. They both have worked for 100 years.

 

[armydog]

30/06 and 45/70 just to be different and maybe piss a few people off.