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Light Weight Rifle for Smaller Hunters?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jon Bischof" data-source="post: 1799232" data-attributes="member: 879"><p>I totally agree with Zog on starting new shooters/hunters with lower felt recoil guns. A light-weight rifle that hammers their shoulder will make them shake all over anticipating the painful recoil, develop flinching and generally make them hate shooting and probably quit because they don't enjoy pain, missing and embarrassment.</p><p></p><p>So if you want to play a cruel trick on someone you hate--get them a light rifle chambered in a powerful cartridge for their very first hunt. It will be their last hunt.</p><p></p><p>Since I don't hate my son, I took a different approach. BB gun, .22 LR and then for his first deer hunt (short range from a stand) a .357 Magnum Handi-Rifle with almost no felt recoil. He killed four deer with it and then graduated to a Tikka T3 Hunter in .30-06 which is a light rifle so I zeroed it for Fusion Lite 170 grain bullets to reduce the felt recoil. It reduces recoil by about 50%. He killed a deer with it last year. Bullet expanded and complete pass-thru which is what I like.</p><p></p><p>I still haven't let him shoot my .338 Winchester Magnum or my .300 Win Mag--but he still doesn't flinch when he shoots so I may be doing something right. He shot my new 6.5 Creedmoor from the bench last week and recoil didn't seem to bother him.</p><p></p><p>Don't know what to say to those who take a 12 year old on a long hike in high altitude mountains except that you need to decide if he/she is up to all the walking with a heavier rifle that is comfortable to shoot or up to shooting a lighter rifle that will have you bruised for the next two days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jon Bischof, post: 1799232, member: 879"] I totally agree with Zog on starting new shooters/hunters with lower felt recoil guns. A light-weight rifle that hammers their shoulder will make them shake all over anticipating the painful recoil, develop flinching and generally make them hate shooting and probably quit because they don't enjoy pain, missing and embarrassment. So if you want to play a cruel trick on someone you hate--get them a light rifle chambered in a powerful cartridge for their very first hunt. It will be their last hunt. Since I don't hate my son, I took a different approach. BB gun, .22 LR and then for his first deer hunt (short range from a stand) a .357 Magnum Handi-Rifle with almost no felt recoil. He killed four deer with it and then graduated to a Tikka T3 Hunter in .30-06 which is a light rifle so I zeroed it for Fusion Lite 170 grain bullets to reduce the felt recoil. It reduces recoil by about 50%. He killed a deer with it last year. Bullet expanded and complete pass-thru which is what I like. I still haven't let him shoot my .338 Winchester Magnum or my .300 Win Mag--but he still doesn't flinch when he shoots so I may be doing something right. He shot my new 6.5 Creedmoor from the bench last week and recoil didn't seem to bother him. Don't know what to say to those who take a 12 year old on a long hike in high altitude mountains except that you need to decide if he/she is up to all the walking with a heavier rifle that is comfortable to shoot or up to shooting a lighter rifle that will have you bruised for the next two days. [/QUOTE]
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