Just for fun, list all the calibers you have shot a deer with. Some guys stick with the same rifle year after year and others just keep trying out new things.
Here's my list of calibers I've killed a deer with:
223, 22-250, 25-06, 270, 6 mm, 243, 7 mm mauser, 8 mm mauser, 264 win mag, 30-30, 30-06, 7 mm rem. mag, 300 win mag, 300 Weatherby mag, 338 win mag and I think that's all. I'd like to shoot one with a 45-70 someday.
OK, name the calibers......
I'm just getting started to branch out and use something different for fun. I have many different calibers but so far have only taken big game animals with the following. .30WCF, 30-06, and my 7mm Remington magnum. I took my mountain lion with a .45 Colt but that's the end of my list so far. My kids have used a .243 and a .270 with good results and I will be trying my new .270wsm this year for the first time.
I have others that I plan to work with but that's all at this point.
Not many different ones for me 30-30 first then several with the 30-06 and then finlally one with the 50 encore bp. Hope to get one with the 7mm-08 that is ordered for the Encore.
Cartridges I've killed deer with include .22 LR, .22-250, .32 Spl, .257 Ackley, .30-06, 12 ga (7 1/2 shot), .44 mag pistol, and .45 blackpowder rifle.
And cartridges that I've killed other deer size critters with include 7 mm RM, .308 Win, .300 Wby, .375 RUM, and .45 acp.
My success is limited, so I have used only 2 calibers.
3 deer in Vermont were all taken with a 30-30.
The one deer in California was taken with a 30-06.
Hopefully, I can add .348 in the future, and I would like to take a deer with my grandfather's shotgun, so that would have to be buckshot. If I take one, then I would retire the gun for good.
List for deer is 270, 243, 444 Marlin, 50 Cal MZ, 7mm Mag. If elk and antelope are thrown in the mix the 30-06 can be added.
22LR, 22 Mag, 222 Rem, 223 Rem, 243, 6mm Rem, 25-06, 6.5x55, 6.5-06, 280 Rem, 7x57, 7mm Rem Mag, 30-30, 308 Win, 338 Win Mag. I think thats it!
.243, 25-06, 30-30, and 30-06, 50 caliber sidelock, and with 12 gauge slugs. I would also like to comment on those who are shooting deer with 22 rimfires and one even stated a 12 gauge with 7 1/2 shot---WTH!!! If you are, please, please, please keep it to yourself!!!
260 Rem, 30-30, 30-06, 270, and 54 cal. muzzleloader. And occasionaly 9mm to put a wounded deer down while I'm working.
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