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The Basics, Starting Out
Rifle length, weight, forgiveness. What is an easy to shoot hunting setup?
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<blockquote data-quote="Carey Farmer" data-source="post: 2580990" data-attributes="member: 122715"><p>Upper body strength does indeed matter - but mostly for offhand shooting. Like Duckman11 says above, what probably matters most is recoil tolerance.</p><p></p><p>For similar recoil, a 15 lb (all-in, with scope and full magazine) magnum with a 30" barrel will indeed give you about 200 yards of additional high-terminal-energy range compared to an 10 lb (all-in) non-magnum with a 24" barrel. </p><p></p><p>I hunt deer in narrow fire breaks / shooting lanes in Georgia timberland, at distances up to 600 yards. If an animal I shoot runs more than 10 or 15 yards after being shot, it may take hours of stumbling around in trees, briars and poison ivy to find it. So I shoot a 28 Nosler with a 32" medium Palma barrel. That rifle is pretty heavy, about 16 lbs all-in. It took a few years of hitting the gym for a couple hours, three times a week, and an embarrassingly high number of practice shots at the range, before I could shoot that rifle offhand with enough accuracy to be confident with a 100 yard shot. I realize that sounds like WAY too much work. But if that 28 Nosler weighed 10 lbs all-in, I wouldn't want to shoot it at all - too much recoil. And I'd still be stumbling around in the woods looking for deer.</p><p></p><p>So I'd say pick your chambering based on what your max shooting range will be, what size animal you'll be shooting, and how quickly you need that animal to drop after being shot. Then make the rifle as heavy as it needs to be for the recoil not to bother you AT ALL. If it ends up too heavy to shoot offhand accurately ... hit the gym and range as needed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carey Farmer, post: 2580990, member: 122715"] Upper body strength does indeed matter - but mostly for offhand shooting. Like Duckman11 says above, what probably matters most is recoil tolerance. For similar recoil, a 15 lb (all-in, with scope and full magazine) magnum with a 30" barrel will indeed give you about 200 yards of additional high-terminal-energy range compared to an 10 lb (all-in) non-magnum with a 24" barrel. I hunt deer in narrow fire breaks / shooting lanes in Georgia timberland, at distances up to 600 yards. If an animal I shoot runs more than 10 or 15 yards after being shot, it may take hours of stumbling around in trees, briars and poison ivy to find it. So I shoot a 28 Nosler with a 32" medium Palma barrel. That rifle is pretty heavy, about 16 lbs all-in. It took a few years of hitting the gym for a couple hours, three times a week, and an embarrassingly high number of practice shots at the range, before I could shoot that rifle offhand with enough accuracy to be confident with a 100 yard shot. I realize that sounds like WAY too much work. But if that 28 Nosler weighed 10 lbs all-in, I wouldn't want to shoot it at all - too much recoil. And I'd still be stumbling around in the woods looking for deer. So I'd say pick your chambering based on what your max shooting range will be, what size animal you'll be shooting, and how quickly you need that animal to drop after being shot. Then make the rifle as heavy as it needs to be for the recoil not to bother you AT ALL. If it ends up too heavy to shoot offhand accurately ... hit the gym and range as needed. [/QUOTE]
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