VINNYB,

M-70 and 30-06. IMHO, an absolutely superb choice and a good compliment to your .243. Good cartridge spacing, you are wellon your way to building aeffective, wide rangingset of rifles. Good choice on the glass as well. Nice to hear a young'un at 13 years talking how they like an '06 instead of parroting the "recoil talk", at your age if you think you can then you probably can. Go get 'em.

Great that your dad is your hunting partner.
My dad wasn't a hunter, though great on all other counts, but my next door neighbor was ahunter and ended up being my hunting partner/mentor---- just that he was my grade school principal, which made it kind of interesting at times. That man taught me a lot about hunting.