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| I agree a lot with HuskerJ a lot.
Call me old fashioned as well, but any rifle I buy will be something of a caliber that I can easily find.
Reloading is great, but I also like the idea of easy to find factory loaded ammo. So far the choices I have available to me are.
22LR
223/5.56
243--308
30-06--7mm Mag
.44MAG (I have a 44MAG lever rifle)--Nope Maybe get a 350 Legend, 450 bushmaster or other straight walled cartridge for hunting in those states that require the straight walled cartridges to hunt deer. Don't know which right now.
9MM (little auto carbine) --only as pistols Same straight walled cartridge mentioned in the above.
I agree go look at your local gun store and look at price of ammunition and what they carry. That is one reason that I went with the 223/5.56 instead of the 22-250. I had a model 788 22-250. Loved that gun but ammunition is more expensive.
223/5.56
Did you know that you get a bolt action 5.56? You can shoot a 223 in a 5.56 but not the other way around. Both ammos are cheap.
243--308
308 is good out to 400 yards. Has a lot of knock down with the big bullet.
30-06--7mm Mag
My dad got a 7mm Mag Remington and that was one smooth shooting gun. I shot a M1 Garande one time. My gosh that was kicker. 7mm Magnum will reach out there past the 308.
357 or 44.
I am picking a straight walled cartridge instead of 30-30 because of the requirements for hunting in some states. These straight walled cartridges do pretty good against the 30-30 ballistic wise.
Not a advertisement but there are several people that post to youtube. Spomer who talks about guns and ballistics is a good starting out. Then for actually shooting go to Banana Ballistics and WHO_TEE_WHO. You can spend hours learning from these people on different guns.
Seems like ever one has hopped on the 204 Ruger and 7mm PRC. I get this ammo is not cheap and not the easiest to get at your local ammunition place.
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Rifle calibers and the future
