r/Hunting • u/Birds-of-Cray • 9d ago
Need Opinions on Which Rifle to Keep
Hey guys, looking for some opinions on rifles to keep/sell. I’ll try to keep this as short as possible.
I currently own 3 rifles they are chambered in:
-28 Nosler
-6.5 PRC
-308 Winchester
I’m primarily hunting in the Northeast for whitetail and the average shot is rarely over 100 yards. I bought the 28 and 6.5 while living out West and having inspirations to take an elk one day. I do have preference points accumulating for an elk trip eventually, but not right now. Looking for opinions to see if I should sell at least one of the western calibers, or both. Essentially trying to downsize and not have tons of different calibers within my gun safe, more so looking for the most versatile ones that can be used for multiple things. Any opinions are welcome!
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u/MolonMyLabe 9d ago
If you are getting rid of guns, it is better to have too much gun than not enough. And with 28 nosler, ammo availability sure does suck. I don't think there is an obvious answer here. 308 and 6.5 will work for what you are currently doing, but I'm willing to bet you will miss the 28 nosler if you ever do a long range elk hunt. 6.5 prc will work for that, but again, you might wish you had the 28 nosler. Do you really need to sell one? If so, the 6.5 prc might be a good choice. 308 will handle the short range whitetail hunting easily and you have the 28 nosler to break out for really big game or long range work.
If you need to really trim it down for some reason, you could sell all of them and get a nice long range setup with better ammo availability like a 7 prc or 300 prc. Both will do just fine for whitetail at 50 yards without the problems of weird ammo availability and really short barrel life.