Originally Posted by
isatarak
Last year I bought my wife a .243 Model 7 Remington youth model. It has a recoil pad and a synthetic stock. Much lighter than my 700. A very sweet little gun.
Got the same for my son for his 12th birthday. This year, I'll be retrofitting it with a full size stock...
Check out the recoil tables here. It gives a pretty good approximation of relative recoil of different cartridges.
http://www.chuckhawks.com/recoil_table.htm
Cartridges mentioned in this thread:
Cartridge Bullet Wt/Vel. Rifle Wt. Recoil Energy Recoil Velocity
.243 Win. (100 at 2960)-------7.5 --------8.8 -------8.7
.30-30 Win. (150 at 2400)---- 7.5------- 10.6 -------9.5
.44 Rem. Mag. (240 at 1760)-- 7.5------- 11.2 -------9.8
7mm-08 Rem. (140 at 2860)--- 8.0------ 12.6------- 10.1
.260 Rem. (120 at 2860) ------7.5------ 13.0 -------10.6
.308 Win. (150 at 2800) ------ 7.5 ------15.8------- 11.7