Here's my ammo lineup, which gaps do you see?

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

The quarter bores are something I know very little about. Do you use them for deer sized game? Varmints?

Right now my 22lr is my small game cartridge, 223 and 6.5x55 for coyotes and any big game I'm grabbing the 6.8 or larger.

@Northern Shooter
You need to be educated mate. The fast 25s are suitable for everything from little critters to big deer and even African plains game as @One Day... Will attest to.
25s are great calibres. A 100gn TTSX at 3,400-3,600fps wreaks havoc on bigger animals.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Currently own levers in both 357 and 45-70. I considered filling in the middle with either a 44mag or 30-30 but they both seem to fall short to my current duo.

38/357 is much cheaper for more affordable plinking, 45-70 is better suited to actual big game hunting. I still do want a 3rd lever gun in the safe though.

@Northern Shooter
I can see a nice Winchester model 71 in 348 win in your future. That will scratch the itch
Bob

 

[Mark R]

.257” - 250-3000, 257Roberts, 25-06
.284” - 280, 280 AI, 7mm RM

Glad I could help

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Bob will be along soon saying how great the .243 is and that you need one straight away before you buy one of those 35 W thingys

@Sideshow
There's a clown in every circus mate.
You is funnee
Bob

 

[One Day...]

@Northern Shooter
You need to be educated mate. The fast 25s are suitable for everything from little critters to big deer and even African plains game as @One Day... Will attest to.
25s are great calibres. A 100gn TTSX at 3,400-3,600fps wreaks havoc on bigger animals.
Bob

I absolutely confirm, Northern Shooter

Although I initially thought the .300 Wby would be my default / main / only African / Asian / American / European PG caliber, the .257 Wby has relegated the .300 Wby to specialized duties (e.g. long range monster trophy mountain Kudu), and the .257 Wby shooting 100gr TTSX has become my default caliber for all small, medium and even large PG with behind-the shoulder-double-lung shots. It has absolutely flattened anything up to Elk in America and Sable in Africa, and, so far, the 100 gr TTSX has always punched through and out. Truth be told, in my experience there is zero effectiveness difference between .257 Wby 100 gr TTSX and .300 Wby 165 gr TTSX for behind-the shoulder-double-lung shots.

Tough, through the shoulder or hip, quartering in or quartering away, shot on 500 lbs+ size game are better taken with the .300 Wby, but aside from those I have proved to myself, and a number of PHs, that the quasi recoil-free (.270 Win level), laser-beam flat shooting, blazingly fast .257 Wby does it all, and is so easy to shoot it is almost unfair...

The .257 Roberts lacks horsepower, the .25-06 nudges the answer, and the .257 Wby crushes it.

I had posted a few things about it a while back...

Post in thread 'Which one should be my third rifle and why...'

Oct 11, 2024

For your reading pleasure...

In Praise Of The .257 Weatherby Magnum
by Layne Simpson | January 4th, 2011

From mice to moose, the .257 Weatherby Magnum does it all.
By Layne Simpson

Of the many cartridges developed by Roy Weatherby, the .257 Magnum was his favorite. Many other hunters have felt the same way down through the decades. Based on annual sales of the various Weatherby cartridges, the .30-378 Magnum is in first place followed by the .300 Magnum, .257 Magnum, .270 Magnum, and 7mm Magnum. Weatherby developed his big .257 in 1944, but before settling on the...

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[odonata]

When I first glanced at @Northern Shooter's lineup (left), my first thought was it didn't differ drastically from what I'm currently shooting (right). About half of them match & the other half are close. I almost bought a 416 Ruger to lineup against his 416 Rigby recently:

I was actually asking myself the same question & the answer I came up with is that I have everything I need. If I spend any more money, it needs to be on things like reloading equipment instead of more rifles.

But, even if I did answer the OP's question with additional suggestions, it would simply reflect the few random & quirky options that appealed to me for various reasons that I would add to my collection. For example:

SxS 28ga for upland hunting.

35 Whelen or 9.3x62. Maybe rebore one of my 30-06's.

FN PS90 in 5.7x28 because I shoot ambidextrously & like the bottom ejection.

 

[Sideshow]

@Sideshow
There's a clown in every circus mate.
You is funnee
Bob

Hope you had a merry Christmas Bob. Glad I add a smile to a few of the faces around here