Hunting Rifle Decision: Your Most Accurate Rifle or Favorite Cartridge

[General RE LEE]

Here’s an interesting one. My Tikka 6.5 Creedmoor UPR is my most accurate rifle. My 6 ARC Howa Mini is a sweet rifle and I give the edge to it being my favorite cartridge.

Would you take your most accurate rifle or the “adequate” rifle that shoots your favorite cartridge?

 

[hereinaz]

That seems to be edging towards my 22BR in my Howa Mini for a small cartridge and 25 SST for magnum in short action.

Short and fat is where it’s at.

 

[black dawg]

6.5 creed sako is my most precise and accurate rifle. Not light but not really heavy, and extremely shootable. Mil quick drops line up like it was invented for this rifle.
Also have 6arc mini, very light little more difficult to shoot well, precise enough, if it had a dialable scope on it it would probably go hunting more than the 6.5.

 

[Steve300xcw]

I wouldnt have any issues running around with just an open sighted 30-30. I'll take the gun/chambering that I prefer over a bit more accuracy

 

[sierracharlie338]

Depends on the type of the hunt but I generally pick whatever feels right at the time. I also cycle rifles just to spill blood with them at some point. Now that I think about it I don’t have a favorite that normally gets the nod. Maybe I should figure that out lol

 

[Steve300xcw]

I'd be curious how many animals that are posted on here couldnt have been killed with a 2.5moa gun. Talking hunting shots, not lobbing rounds across a canyon...

 

[houghton_hunter]

Have two sub-moa rifles, practice with both, so you never worry about which one is more accurate, choose the caliber that is your favorite for killing the game.

"Only accurate rifles are interesting"-Townsend Whalen

 

[Robobiss]

I also cycle rifles just to spill blood with them at some point.

I’m guilty of both doing this, and not doing this. I realized this morning while looking for a rifle to try to loan to a buddy that had an optic failure last night that I have a .308 and a 6.5 creedmoor that I have never shot anything with, nor taken hunting.

I thought about it for this weekend as both are zero’d and have good loads worked up for them. Then I remembered how much damn fun my tikka 223 is to shoot stuff with… Maybe they will get some blood on them next year!

 

[sierracharlie338]

I’m guilty of both doing this, and not doing this. I realized this morning while looking for a rifle to try to loan to a buddy that had an optic failure last night that I have a .308 and a 6.5 creedmoor that I have never shot anything with, nor taken hunting.

I thought about it for this weekend as both are zero’d and have good loads worked up for them. Then I remembered how much damn fun my tikka 223 is to shoot stuff with… Maybe they will get some blood on them next year!

I have a couple rifles that have not spilled blood. I have a 25-45 sharps that’s BEGGING to be used but has yet to get the nod lol. I lost my lease where I could shoot five deer a year so the number of animals getting whacked is much slower.