TL;DR: what are some rifles that are good for hunting first, and home defense second?
With the prospect of unbounded inflation, expensive food (e.g., meat), and getting late into the game of saving for retirement (spent a long time in grad school), I want to hunt. If I bring home enough wild game for food, I'll have saved a lot of money (especially if the price of meat skyrockets).
Suggestions?
Apologies if this is a complete noob question, but don't shotguns spray scatter-shot that would be difficult to clean out of game? It'd be nice to have to clean out only one bullet.