[huntingnut]

Thanks for the info and offer...sounds like a road trip...shoot some fish...any hogs in the area...lol

no hogs here, lots of deer and big black bears, anytime you want to make a trip i will set you up

 

[AllOut]

Not sure if he or anyone reloads for ya, but any of those can be loaded light enough so that she doesn't feel like she just got kicked in the teeth by a mule. I load some 130g loads in the 30-06 for my wife and it's a light shooter, she shot some 180g loads this year and didn't complain. She also loved the .243
I even load a nice little round for a .300win mag that my cousin (married to one of my best friends) shoots and she loves it, I actually killed my buck with it this year. Neither are very big girls, so if loading your own the choices are endless.
If you are buying factory ammo, I really like the .308. Great accuracy, good at longer ranges fairly easy recoil and cheep. Plus u can buy a box of bullets at any walmart or small town store in the country.

 

[WBG444]

Muzzle breaks are LOUD , a feather weight winchester model 70 243 is a nice little gun. Get whatever u want because when she don't like it u can keep it

 

[WBG444]

 

[archertoo]

:cheers:

 

[archertoo]

Not sure if he or anyone reloads for ya, but any of those can be loaded light enough so that she doesn't feel like she just got kicked in the teeth by a mule. I load some 130g loads in the 30-06 for my wife and it's a light shooter, she shot some 180g loads this year and didn't complain. She also loved the .243
I even load a nice little round for a .300win mag that my cousin (married to one of my best friends) shoots and she loves it, I actually killed my buck with it this year. Neither are very big girls, so if loading your own the choices are endless.

If you are buying factory ammo, I really like the .308. Great accuracy, good at longer ranges fairly easy recoil and cheep. Plus u can buy a box of bullets at any walmart or small town store in the country.

That is what appeals to him at this point.:tu:

 

[Old Smoker]

7mm08 is the ticket. Reducing recoil with the muzzle break works great but like Bradey says, the noise it brings makes a lot of folks scetchy when squeezing off rounds. All most as much as the recoil it removes once did. Both of my boys used a youth model 7mm08 I bought for them as a first deer rifle. Now the Warden uses it and it fits her to a T. She's very comfortable with it. Have no experience with the 308.

 

[Old Bald Guy]

7mm08 is the ticket. Reducing recoil with the muzzle break works great but like Bradey says, the noise it brings makes a lot of folks scetchy when squeezing off rounds. All most as much as the recoil it removes once did. Both of my boys used a youth model 7mm08 I bought for them as a first deer rifle. Now the Warden uses it and it fits her to a T. She's very comfortable with it. Have no experience with the 308.

Yep, 7mm-08 would be a good choice. Pass on the muzzle break since she won't need it and the noise will be tough on her and everyone else around her when she's shooting. One of my family members owns a company that makes a chitload of muzzle brakes---hope he don't read BFC. lol

 

[GarGuys]

7mm08 is the ticket. Reducing recoil with the muzzle break works great but like Bradey says, the noise it brings makes a lot of folks scetchy when squeezing off rounds. All most as much as the recoil it removes once did. Both of my boys used a youth model 7mm08 I bought for them as a first deer rifle. Now the Warden uses it and it fits her to a T. She's very comfortable with it. Have no experience with the 308.

Yep BRADEY is usually right!

 

[Doug]

If you are wanting a great hunting caliber and also something that will shoot bullet holes for target she needs a 260rem. Its a .308 casing necked down to.264. Very little recoil, 140 grain bullets and has a way better bullet coificienty than the. 308. I love mine and have shot everything with it. Great caliber.

 

[WBG444]

Yep BRADEY is usually right!

Usually...

 

[tfrasure]

Finally somebody else defending the 7mm08. One of the best women-kids gun ever made. They put a hurting on an elk aswell.

 

[KY Bighead]

I'd personally stay away from these odd calibers.. It's going to be a b*tch to find ammunition in a pinch!!

 

[** Mandy **]

I own a .270 and a .243 and I love them both. Shot a deer this year with the .270. I have shot the hubbys 30-30 and his 30-06 and prefer mine. IMO the .270 and the .243 are more of a slap than a hard push where the 30-30 and 30-06 push more. I did have some trigger work done on the remington .270 because i found the long pull and heavy trigger made me flinch. After all that my shot improved 100% with that gun and I will never trade it.

 

[mark44]

Im not crazy about the 25-06. I shot 2 deer with it last year. First was a doe, shot her at about 100 yds, right in the sweet spot. She mule kicked and took off. Not one speck of blood, found her over 100 yrds away. There was a .25 hole in and out, no expansion, so maybe it was the bullets fault. Second deer was a little buck at about 200. When I shot him he dropped like he'd been struck by lightning. I dont want a gun that doesnt kill consistently.

I'd get the 7-08. Ive killed many deer, hog, and varmits with that caliber, real light kicking too.

 

[Old Bald Guy]

If you are wanting a great hunting caliber and also something that will shoot bullet holes for target she needs a 260rem. Its a .308 casing necked down to.264. Very little recoil, 140 grain bullets and has a way better bullet coificienty than the. 308. I love mine and have shot everything with it. Great caliber.

Yep, I like the .260 but it don't shine too bright with heavier-140 gr-bullets and that's what I see in the stores around here. 7mm-08 with a 140 gr bullet is about 150-200 fps faster which helps in the 100-400 yard range that gets used most in hunting. Now handload a 100 gr. Partition in that .260 to about 3300-3400 fps and you have a killing machine that kicks about like a .243 Win.
My unsolicited opinion on some of the .308 case based cartridges when considering case capacity/bore diameter/efficiency for hunting:
.308 Win.------------140 gr. bullets
7mm-08-------------120 gr. bullets
.260[6.5mm-08]-----100 gr. bullets
.243[6mm-08]--------80 gr. bullets
For example--a .243 won't push a 100 gr. bullet as well as a .260----a .260 won't push a 120 gr. like a 7mm-08----a 7mm-08 won't push a 140 gr like a .308.

All said and done my Rem. CDL 24' bbl with a 100 gr. Partition right at 3400 fps is my flavor of the day for the oat patches I hunt most nowadays.

 

[tfrasure]

7mm08 is not a hard round to find + inexpensive, I've never went to buy shells and not found them, I've had a harder time finding 300 winn mag, or 270, or 300ultra. I think the more used rounds are harder to find because they are more used. You can always find the more common but not always in the same grain of bullets.

 

[Old Bald Guy]

7mm08 is not a hard round to find + inexpensive, I've never went to buy shells and not found them, I've had a harder time finding 300 winn mag, or 270, or 300ultra. I think the more used rounds are harder to find because they are more used. You can always find the more common but not always in the same grain of bullets.

7mm-08 is very common in the stores here.

 

[tfrasure]

Ditto-obg, another very over looked cartridge is the 6mm.

 

[KY Bighead]

7mm-08 is very common in the stores here.

I've never seen it here!