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<blockquote data-quote="greenejc" data-source="post: 1644285" data-attributes="member: 60453"><p>Sir, I would keep it simple. You could get him any of the new wonder rounds, and they will work. But if you stay with the most popular rounds he'll be able to find ammunition anywhere, and that can be kind of important. Like when the airlines loses your bag with the loads in it, and now you have to buy ammo in Alaska or Canada, or Podunk Utah and the little store has only 6 calibers because that's what the locals use. The 30-30, 30-06, .308 Winchester, 243, and the 270 Winchester are just about everywhere. The 25-06 is also pretty available. All of these cartridges are good deer medicine, but some are more fun for a young boy or girl to shoot than others. For me, weight was a factor more than recoil. I loved that Winchester '94 because it was light, fast and just plain fun to shoot. Mossburg now makes a clone of it, and its a good rifle. But I loved my 6mm Remington Mohawk with the scope, too, when I got older. The .243 is light for elk but with a 100 grain bullet, it will do the job if he's inside 250 yards. It works fine on Whitetail deer. I'd stay with something that I could find ammo for at the local store out near the boonies, though. It can be a long drive back to someplace that has ammunition for the less popular chamberings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenejc, post: 1644285, member: 60453"] Sir, I would keep it simple. You could get him any of the new wonder rounds, and they will work. But if you stay with the most popular rounds he'll be able to find ammunition anywhere, and that can be kind of important. Like when the airlines loses your bag with the loads in it, and now you have to buy ammo in Alaska or Canada, or Podunk Utah and the little store has only 6 calibers because that's what the locals use. The 30-30, 30-06, .308 Winchester, 243, and the 270 Winchester are just about everywhere. The 25-06 is also pretty available. All of these cartridges are good deer medicine, but some are more fun for a young boy or girl to shoot than others. For me, weight was a factor more than recoil. I loved that Winchester '94 because it was light, fast and just plain fun to shoot. Mossburg now makes a clone of it, and its a good rifle. But I loved my 6mm Remington Mohawk with the scope, too, when I got older. The .243 is light for elk but with a 100 grain bullet, it will do the job if he's inside 250 yards. It works fine on Whitetail deer. I'd stay with something that I could find ammo for at the local store out near the boonies, though. It can be a long drive back to someplace that has ammunition for the less popular chamberings. [/QUOTE]
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