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Rifles, Bullets, Barrels & Ballistics
For my brother what caliber
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<blockquote data-quote="Murph1951" data-source="post: 1990512" data-attributes="member: 115291"><p>My final word on this don't take it as Gospel. I still say a 30-06 is the best first gun because you can shoot from the lightest, #1 buckshot or with a sabot 50 grain .224 bullet. I have shot squirrels with a paper patched #1 buckshot and a few grains of Bullseye. If you reload you can go to 220 grain bullets. Lets talk about recoil...come on he is 17 years old! I was shooting a 06 at a range and I was 14 and weighed 120# soaking wet. i would come home with a black and blue shoulder. When I was 12 I was shooting a 12 gauge Browning A-5 with no problems. Now you get into the wonder .30 mags now there is a problem, recoil goes way up, scope eye always a problem and the velocity increase of a couple hundred FPS is not worth it. I never knew a critter to read ammo ballistics anyways. Every gun show I go to usually a 100 or more "06 rifles ...every make every model and you will not be disappointed with one</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Murph1951, post: 1990512, member: 115291"] My final word on this don't take it as Gospel. I still say a 30-06 is the best first gun because you can shoot from the lightest, #1 buckshot or with a sabot 50 grain .224 bullet. I have shot squirrels with a paper patched #1 buckshot and a few grains of Bullseye. If you reload you can go to 220 grain bullets. Lets talk about recoil...come on he is 17 years old! I was shooting a 06 at a range and I was 14 and weighed 120# soaking wet. i would come home with a black and blue shoulder. When I was 12 I was shooting a 12 gauge Browning A-5 with no problems. Now you get into the wonder .30 mags now there is a problem, recoil goes way up, scope eye always a problem and the velocity increase of a couple hundred FPS is not worth it. I never knew a critter to read ammo ballistics anyways. Every gun show I go to usually a 100 or more "06 rifles ...every make every model and you will not be disappointed with one [/QUOTE]
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