If you could only have one rifle

[SPUD]

Marlin Camp 45 with folding stock and many 20 round mags and a 40 round drum in case it's needed. Select your optics. Perfect companion to government 45 pistol.

 

[GnometownHero]

Either my 45 Colt Rossi lever or my M1 Garand.
I am very proficient out past 500yds with my Garand, but BBs in a 45 Colt shot capsule leaves you alot more rabbit or squirrel to eat than the 3006 Garand does

 

[Two Gun Warrior]

If you could only have one rifle which would it be a hunting rifle or AR style rifle?

Is there a difference? My AR 15 I built to fit me and I hunt with it, 6 mm ARC. Will do well for lots of things.

 

[swampratt]

I wanted to say my 30-06 but after contemplating on what rifle to use to put down a horse i had to kill.
I will now say my savage 10SR 18" heavy barrel.
More accurate by a tick than my 30-06 and I have a dandy cast load for it and it has killed everything I needed it to, ridiculous reliable.

Now a bug out situation would be different.
I would take my bolt action .223.
I have mouse fart loads for it and lots of .223/5.56 shooters out there that I can take ammo from if I needed to.
.223 Ammo is lighter than 30-06 or .308.

 

[GlockPride]

As always, hard to say. Probably a Ruger SFAR in .308. Really wish that they’d make one in 6.5CM. But, alas, I don’t have one. So, of what I own, an AR in 5.56.

 

[dennishoddy]

6mm Arc for me in the AR platform since there is factory ammo available. The Barnes bullets in 6mm will take any game animal in North America cleanly. The Alaskan inuits use .303 british and .223 to take bear and moose.

 

[Tinytim]

If you could only have one rifle which would it be a hunting rifle or AR style rifle?

AR all the way

 

[Steelers Fan]

I asked this question of Jacob Bynum (Rifles Only) and Frank Galli (Snipers Hide) and both of them said AR-10 .308 with a 3-18 power scope.

I understand the advantages of an AR. Primarily for me it would be the vast amount of interchangable parts to keep one running as opposed to the variety of sporting guns. But I've carried both all day on predator hunts walking miles across hills, creeks, gulches, ravines, fields, etc., etc. I've only carried a bolt action sporting arm on backcountry elk and antelope hunts.
Bolt action sporting rifle is king of comfort for these reasons: Weight, natural center balance point, low scope to barrel mount, smooth and rounded stock with no squared, sharp and snagging edges.
AR's are great for function BUT they are not comfortable on all day hike hunts. Snagging on back packs and clothing with clip, charging handle, high scope to barrel relation mount and pistol grip handle protrusions from HELL. Plus poor balance points and location choices to hold comfortably single handed.

 

[El Pablo]

Puff the magic dragon, then take all rifles of who ever decided I could only have one rifle. Because I’m claiming the m-134 has rifling, so it’s a rifle

 

[AKguy1985]

my choice would be a hunting AR style rifle.

Same here.