The Ideal Hunting Rifle Battery

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I was just reading a Chuck Hawks article on choosing the ideal hunting rifle battery.

These are his picks:
.17 HMR - Rimfire varmint hunting, small game
.223 Rem. - Centerfire varmint hunting
.257 Roberts +P - Woods and mountain rifle, CXP2 game
7mm Rem. Mag. - All-around hunting (CXP2-CXP3 game)
.350 Rem. Mag. - All CXP3 game
.458 Win. Mag. - All CXP4 game, dangerous game

Obviously the choices would change according to what and where you hunt.

Here's my current battery:
.22LR Marlin 925-small game
.223 Savage Mod. 12FV-S-varmints and predators
.243 Stevens Mod. 200-predators and deer
7mm-08 Stevens Mod. 200-deer
30-06 Stevens Mod. 200-deer and black bear
45/70 H+R Buffalo Classic-deer and black bear
.50 BP CVS Optima Pro-muzzleloader deer season

So what makes up your ideal battery?
Don

[psycho]

Mine

Varmint and small predator 22lr Savage
predator and deer 243 Savage
deer and long range hog and bear 7mm Savage
short range deer Winchester 1300 slug gun
short range hog and bear 450 marlin
just for fun hunting 50cal knight muzzleloader
Birds of all types Mossberg 500 12ga

[DocHolladay]

.22LR Winchester and Marlin-small game
.204 NEF Heavy BBL-varmints and predators
.270 Remington 700ADL- Long range deer
.30-30 Win. model 94- Short range deer
.50 BP CVA Hawkins-muzzleloader deer season
Birds of all sizes and small game- Winchester 1300, 12ga.

[bubbawitha4570]

Ideal?

.22lr bolt rifle
.22mag bolt rifle
.357 mag levergun (brand is your choice)
Marlin 1895 levergun 45/70 of course
.308 bolt rifle

Those should be covering my hunting needs fairly nicely.

[smokepolehall]

.243 close and far harvest anything within reason up to black bears, any varmints there is.
6.5x55 1916 Swedish Mauser Sporterized will take anything in North America
.44 mag. Ruger carbine any short range big game i happened into North America.