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This question is somewhat more vague than you may realize.
One could call any rifle pressed into service for the purpose of hunting a 'hunting rifle'.
In so far as rifles made specifically for the task of hunting, ignoring questions of power and going purely with bore size the largest would be the 2-Bore rifle produced by individual gunsmiths for (largely wealthy) clients who want to have something unique. A 2-bore rifle has a bore-diameter of over an inch and fires more than half a pound of lead with a single pull of the trigger.
While one is hard-pressed to find a bigger-caliber hunting rifle, there are a few contenders in this heavy weight category such as the .700 AHR and .600 Overkill made by American Hunting Rifle, the .700 and .600 Nitro Express family from Holland & Holland of London, and and a myriad of other calibers from various producers such as .729 Jongman's, .585 Nyati, .500 Jeffery and others. Meanwhile there are many old muzzle-loading firearms in the .75 caliber range, to say nothing of the earlier Bore-Rifles. None of these however have more raw size than the 2-Bore.
In so far as what would be the 'most powerful' hunting rifle, that would be a different discussion entirely. I mention this because many people make the false-equivalence assumption that bore-size and power are one in the same when they are not.
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