Thread: If you were only allowed 1 rifle...

Originally Posted by Spudattack

Yep, but technically more than one rifle if you switching barrels!

Ok, R93 with 2 barrels .260imp and a .280imp or 7mmsaum would suit everything I would hunt. I only want a whitetail, moose and bighorn ram from overseas.

Get the first 2 in Nz!

For worldwide hunting, one calibre

Sako 85 Finnlight ST 7mm rem mag.

150g E-Tip
162g A-Max

Partitions
GMX
Barnes

Originally Posted by gimp

Get the first 2 in Nz!

Originally Posted by gimp

Get the first 2 in Nz!

You could definitely get 1 and possibly the other. The possible one, I would never shoot in NZ given the chance unless I seen a family group. Besides hunting in the Yukon or Alaska would be new. Been into Fiordland hundreds of times.

I'd love to hunt some places in the US. Looks spectacular. Rockies, Alaska, etc.

I have a STW and with it i have shot rabbits, hares, possums, magpies, sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, fallow deer, red deer and a parry [after what we had paid for the trip it was worth the bullet just to get rid of the honking bastard from the valley]...more bullet than what was needed for most of them, but boy it was fun...never had occassion to take it overseas but I imagine it would give a good account for itself on many species of game.

Me dave abe an smiddy will have one each and we will just share

Originally Posted by baldbob

Me dave abe an smiddy will have one each and we will just share

Yup get a syndicate going

Well if money is no object, either a Sako TRG or an AIAW/AX or if we want to be a bit saner (cheaper) a Barnard action custom, cause its NZ made.



The only hard bit is 308win or 338lapuaMag.

If its hunting and world wide I'd need stopping power I guess so Im going for the 338lapuaMag

Sniper Rifle Systems - AE, AW, AX, AX50 & AICS Sniper Rifles | Accuracy International and 3 x 10 mags



If we talk what I could reasonably afford out of my own pocket, the dream rifle I want one day to own and pass to my son is a Sako stainless 85 in 308win, since I love wood, a wooden stock is a must.

SAKO 85 Varmint Laminated Stainless



Though I'd drool over one of these,

http://www.sako.fi/sako90auction.php

I'd just go the humble 223, or maybe 243, for NZ for what I want to hunt. If it's something too far away for the shot then I'd use my boots some more.

6.5x55 NZ
.375 H&H WW

Another factor I have been mulling over is ammo and projectile availability, for that reason I might change my NZ calibre to .308, close race though!

I would go with my 7-375R for nz game

and world wide Sako Kodiak in 416rby

It sounds like the 6.5x55 is the latest fashion accessory. Lacks a bit of top end grunt to be a universal NZ calibre in my book. I've used the calibre plenty.

If I was limited to one rifle, I would go for a bolt action 280 with a 22" barrel. 120-160grn projectiles. Top end grunt. Handy enough in the bush. It would do me for NZ and overseas.