re: Best All Around Rifle

Anything Tikka

You trollin?

.30-06 is the only answer when "all around" is brought up in the lower 48. It works great on everything from deer to moose from bad breath range to as far as you can hit them. Ammo available everywhere from 125 to 220 grains. Available in basically every rifle model built. Theres no disputing the .30-06 is the king of north america.

.375 h&h is the true global do-all and can be had for about $600 in the weatherby vanguard. Only option there is if you truely want to be covered for everything.

6.5 creedmore is a bastard of a round. It duplicates the performance of about 4 different calibers that came before it, but had a less cool sounding name.

Surprised that a Winchester model 70 hasn't been suggested more. 30-06 is my "all round" go-to simply bc it ain't broke, don't go fixin it...

I see by the responses that I am going to be in the minority, but I think the best all-around rifle is a Ruger 10/22. You can use it on so many different things.

A $500 AR-15 and $250 of .22lr conversion unit. Then you can sell all the other rifles, cause the AR can do more than all of them put together, It's been winning the 600 yd rifle matches for 20 years now. it wins all the combat rifle matches. With a 10.5"long pencil barrel and 7.5" of silencer, its the perfect shtf rifle. The .22 unit is great for plinking, small game, teaching novices, indoor ranges, saving you 20c per shot, too. ou can get a see thru scope, the mounts are QD and return to zero. you can get luminous iron
sights, night scopes, red dot optical sights, drop in
trigger job, ambidestrous safety. Free float tube with a GI bipod mounting spot on it. 6 lb rifle, 3/4 lb .22 unit. 1 lb of scope and mount. The free-float tube is enough lighter than the handguard that the bipod adds no more total weight. The silencer adds 3/4 lb and tremendous levels of utility.

Get 1-in-9" rifling, from Model One sales. That's great for use with the 60 gr Federal fusion or the Black Hills Nosler partition softpoints. Both are intended for use on deer. The Aquila 60 gr subsonic .22 ammo, put up in .22 Short cases, works fine thru the 30 rd box mag and is BB gun quiet thru the 223 silencer, if you know to hold shut the bolt with your non firing hand.

The caliber swap takes just 10 seconds if you're in a

I can brain moose, elk, bear with this at 2x the range that anyone can chest hit them with a bow and arrow. That softpoint to the brain case will drop anything short of Elephant. It will take elephant with lung hits. Sneak up to 20m, get 3 hits on that 2 ft diameter lung in half a second, before it can turn, and then run like hell. Elephants can't outrun men, on open ground.

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The new Mauser rifles is 5 shot guarantee

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That Mauser is a nice rifle. The action is like ice with ky jelly on it, but not sloppy in the least.

I think The Mauser with really good scope, would be over his budget of 1,000 bucks though.
The Mauser M-18 was $678 at Academy I think. So that wouldn't leave much for a scope.

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see by the responses that I am going to be in the minority, but I think the best all-around rifle is a Ruger 10/22. You can use it on so many different things.

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Can be used for a great deal of things, but not for elk or deer , which were the reason the OP was looking for a rifle

I pulled my old tikka .308 out from the back of the safe this weekend to hunt with and man I forgot how much I love this rifle.

3006 aint worth a hoot on small game, small varmints, birds, combat rifle matches bullseye matches, plinking or benchrest, which total well over 90% of the shooting done with a rifle.