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Light Weight Rifle for Smaller Hunters?
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<blockquote data-quote="zog" data-source="post: 1799343" data-attributes="member: 102742"><p>OK thanks for all the input. Yes sorry for starting another lightweight rifle argument but I did do a search first. Didn't find much relating for "for wife" or "for kid".</p><p></p><p>Also for what it's worth -</p><p></p><p>I was not a hunter when my sons were young. I was steered toward .270 as a their first rifle by the majority of my experienced hunting and rifle buddies. Based on my sons' experience I'd do it again. They were active and energetic but quite a bit smaller than average for 10 and 11 years old. I couldn't afford much in the way of guns and scopes, and never even gave rifle weight a thought - I just bought well known brand name run-of-the-mill 270's. We spent quite some time at the range learning to shoot safely and manage recoil and they both shot bucks about 2-3 miles walk from the road in their first year. I have a great photo of the youngest when he weighed about 75 lbs, downing an elk with one shot at about 240 yards across a draw with elbows on his knees sitting in the snow.</p><p></p><p>Didn't take long and they were as big as me but have not had to "update" their cartridge. Now they shoot elk, bears, deer, antelope, and coyotes with 270's. They have since bought 300's and 6.5's and 17 HMR's to trial and goof with, but their go-to is still the old .270.</p><p></p><p>So you might think I already had my answer, so why did I ask, but there's so much experience and options available on the "web" that I did not have then so I wanted some input before advising my brother-in-law (who is probably asking the same question as a newbie on some forum right now).</p><p></p><p>As for me personally, I have developed a fascination with light weight rifles for long hike hunting and love them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zog, post: 1799343, member: 102742"] OK thanks for all the input. Yes sorry for starting another lightweight rifle argument but I did do a search first. Didn't find much relating for "for wife" or "for kid". Also for what it's worth - I was not a hunter when my sons were young. I was steered toward .270 as a their first rifle by the majority of my experienced hunting and rifle buddies. Based on my sons' experience I'd do it again. They were active and energetic but quite a bit smaller than average for 10 and 11 years old. I couldn't afford much in the way of guns and scopes, and never even gave rifle weight a thought - I just bought well known brand name run-of-the-mill 270's. We spent quite some time at the range learning to shoot safely and manage recoil and they both shot bucks about 2-3 miles walk from the road in their first year. I have a great photo of the youngest when he weighed about 75 lbs, downing an elk with one shot at about 240 yards across a draw with elbows on his knees sitting in the snow. Didn't take long and they were as big as me but have not had to "update" their cartridge. Now they shoot elk, bears, deer, antelope, and coyotes with 270's. They have since bought 300's and 6.5's and 17 HMR's to trial and goof with, but their go-to is still the old .270. So you might think I already had my answer, so why did I ask, but there's so much experience and options available on the "web" that I did not have then so I wanted some input before advising my brother-in-law (who is probably asking the same question as a newbie on some forum right now). As for me personally, I have developed a fascination with light weight rifles for long hike hunting and love them. [/QUOTE]
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