ORIGINAL: country1
ORIGINAL: ipscshooter
A little hint for anyone seeking deer hunting rifle advice... If someone recommends the .30-30, and disses the .25-06, RUN. That person doesn't have a clue. The .30-30 is obviously a good deer cartridge. It's harvested millions of deer. The .25-06 is better in EVERY possible measure of a "good deer cartridge" (as is the .243...).
If you would look at the beginning of the thread, it talks about a caliber for a young femalehunter. Yes, the 25-06 is a good deer caliber, but I would not use it for a young, new hunter. The thread was about low recoil guns for a youth not a deer caliber in general, and IMOthe 25-06 is a not a low recoil gun to a new, young hunter. Please do us all a favor and make sure YOU know what you are talkingabout before you slam another person on the forum.
Sorry, but, I know exactly what I'm talking about, unless you can provide some similar explanation as to why you said not to "ignore the .308 and the .30-30", but not the .25-06. I can understand your recoil argument as relates to the .30-30, as it has a little less than the .25-06. Not so for the .308, which has quite a bit more... But, while the gentleman in the initial post talked about either a .243 or a 7mm-08 for a young girl, recoil is not something HE mentioned.
Interesting that you make this recoil argument, yet recommend in another post that the gentleman get her a 7mm-08. The .25-06 with a 120 gr. bullet actually has slightly less recoil than the 7mm-08 with a 140 gr. bullet. To quote you... " Please do us all a favor and make sure YOU know what you are talkingabout before you slam another person on the forum."