Two Rifle Setup - What Would You Do?

[Mojave]

I guess I never updated this. Turns out I wanted three rifles, here’s what I ended up with:

The 6.5 PRC that I mentioned previously.

I used a tikka donor action and sent it off to be re-barreled into a 20” 7PRC. Put it in a HNT26 chassis with a NF 4-32, Spuhr rings. Basically copy and pasted because it was such a fantastically suited hunting build.

I also picked up a JP SCR-11 AR that shoots 77gr black hills lights out. Put a NF 2.5-10 in a Spuhr cantilever mount and called it a day.

Think all my bases are covered!

Wow, I am sure that is awesome!

 

[8mille]

.223 is my vote. Also, I unexpectedly had a chance to spend time with a break barrel air rifle. While asked to clean out iguanas on a construction site, I found that I had an immense amount of fun. It prompted me to shoot my 22lr too. Also a lot of fun. For the little stuff .223 and down.

 

[Stinky Coyote]

308 and 6.5 Grendel only 2 we run and for years we only ran the Grendel, just added the 308 recently. Try to wear a barrel out on either but especially so with a 6.5 Grendel.

Volume shooting a Grendel is great for lots of reasons, hunting with one has some pretty cool benefits also, drt's pretty much everything we point it at to 420 yards so far (even launched from 16.1" barrel at only 2386 fps factory eldm) but that lower pressure factory ammo is super quiet if un-suppressed in terms of getting additional shots off if you miss or can fill multiple tags etc. The entire county doesn't really hear it, be lucky if a landowner or neighbor hears it past a few hundred yards. If I only hunted deer size game and predators it would be Grendel all day long but my process was max versatility for predators and big game and factory ammo, plus don't ever wanna think about a barrel, also like over 120gr projectiles so the pea shooters don't make my list. .5 bc is plenty and .25sd also proving the shizzle with eldm bullets. Boring if you run either of these in calculators against the 6mm's etc. but real world has been nothing but great performance. We don't really have much need to go past 4-500 on anything and they both are boring and easy to shoot those distances, even 600 has been easy when we play at range. Most work potential for powder burned in ranges we actually use it.

If I could get a Grendel in nicer rifles like a sako 90 peak I probably wouldn't even have bought the 308, I just wanted nicer rifle mostly so aimed for similar ballistics and characteristics of the Grendel in my choice for the sako, shoots great at 600 with factory 168 eldm.

 

[8mille]

.308 (or 30-06) & .223

 

[Hunter26]

I personally like a .284 or larger for elk which I know isn't the most popular idea on here. What I do think is the 7 PCR is so similar to 6.5 PRC so you aren't getting a bunch of difference for a two rifle set up. I would say go with three rifles. Something like a 223 or a 6 CM and then a 7 PRC or 300 of some sort.