In North America, .30-caliber is the definitive big game rifle. It always has been, and it probably always will be for whitetailed deer, mule deer, elk, sheep and moose. Other calibers are faster and ...

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When John Q. Citizen packs the family automobile and heads out for his annual deer hunt, the chances are that the rifle in the back seat, along with the side of bacon and the coffee­pot, is a .30/30.

The most common definition of “caliber,” as it pertains to guns, is about as straightforward as you could want it to be: Caliber simply mean the diameter of the hole in a rifle or pistol barrel. Yet ...