The girls share the H&R. Both my son and I shoot Savage 110s. Both are 30-06s. We shoot Winchester xp2s. They are 165 grains. Really more than you need for antelope and deer, but I like to shoot the same bullet for everything I hunt: Deer, antelope, and elk. My animal is the only one that suffered any meat loss and that was only about a pound.Punch it through the shoulder and you'll loose a lot of meat, but then I did that to an elk a few years ago andlost most of a front quarter with him

The kids both have Simmons 8 point scopes (3-9x40). I had one as well on my for about 5 years. This year I finally scraped up enough and put a Leupold VXIII on this year. It is a sweeeeet scope.