RE: Looking at possible first guns.
I've fired over twenty shots on my grandpa's Savage, and at some times when feeding and ejecting, the action get pretty darn annoying.
That can be gotten used to though, but one thing a fellow can't get used to is that the magazine is made way to large for the caliber, and if you don't put the cartridge to the front of the magazine, then the action will work, but it won't chamber the cartridge! That would totally stink if you couldn't make any follow-up shots on an elk! You'd just be sitting there trying to get your nails stuck in the magasine in order to move the cartridge forward a bit![:@]