ORIGINAL: c j
ORIGINAL: driftrider
My wife is pretty recoil sensitive, so I won't be getting her anything too large. I'm debating between a .243 Win, .25-06, .260 Rem or 7mm-08 Rem. I think maybe the 7mm-08 may be above her comfort zone, and .260 Rem is semi-rare and ammo is more expensive. So it'll probably be a 25-06 or .243.
All good choices, IMO. But you say the 7-08 is possibly too much, so you'll maybe go with a 25-06. Won't a 25-06 kick more than a 7-08?
According to the charts, given the same weight rifle, the recoil of a .25-06 shooting a 120gr bullet at 3000fps will produce nearly identical recoil to a 7mm-08 pushing a 140gr bullet at 2850fps, but since the .25-06 is a long action cartridge and since rifles chambered in .25-06 often come with 24" barrels to take full advantage of the larger case capacity vs the more typical 22" barrels common to the 7mm-06 sporters the rifle will likely weigh about 1/2lb more, making recoil less. If one were to use a stout 100gr bullet in the .25-06, recoil would be further reduced. But it's more or less a toss up.
Mike