Youth Rifle, 243 or 7mm08?
01-03-2014, 05:59 PM
#31
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
If you fellows would quit flinching and shooting them in the guts, you wouldn't have any problems... 
I grew up shooting squirrels, in the head with an open sighted .22...Never had a problem killing deer...The hunters that show up at our camp with the big bores are the ones who can't shoot and we end up tracking their deer...
I've never shot a deer in the guts with my .243 or any other gun, I guess those that do, need a bigger gun....
I grew up shooting squirrels, in the head with an open sighted .22...Never had a problem killing deer...The hunters that show up at our camp with the big bores are the ones who can't shoot and we end up tracking their deer...
I've never shot a deer in the guts with my .243 or any other gun, I guess those that do, need a bigger gun....
01-04-2014, 04:39 AM
#32
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: MICHIGAN
Posts: 2,568
Like I said 2800FPS 85gr. HPBT bang flop from crows to deer and all those whistle pigs coyotes coons and possums. At one time many years ago My brother and a cousin used them on snow shoe hare across valleys in clear cut in march when the snow was melting. Only target was the shiny black eye.
Al
Al
01-04-2014, 06:54 AM
#33
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Eastern wv
Posts: 3,650
heck I use to shoot a 25" barreled 10 ga with a scope off a bench that actualy rattled my teeth loose, reckon my shootin days are over, anybody wanna buy a couple junk rifles?
RR
01-04-2014, 09:33 AM
#34
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia / West Virginia
Posts: 4,906
well then as many times as I've worn the badge "magnum eyebrow" then I'll never kill another deer!
heck I use to shoot a 25" barreled 10 ga with a scope off a bench that actualy rattled my teeth loose, reckon my shootin days are over, anybody wanna buy a couple junk rifles?
RR
heck I use to shoot a 25" barreled 10 ga with a scope off a bench that actualy rattled my teeth loose, reckon my shootin days are over, anybody wanna buy a couple junk rifles?
RR
You know I'm not saying that happens to everyone or even most people, but becoming recoil shy is very real, and young kids can be affected easily. I know several guys that are adults that have had issues with it over the years, one took several years to get over it after being busted hard 2 times with a .300 wby.
I still stand by my choice of .243 as a great rifle for kids, (and also adults.) To say its not, well that just doesn't jive with reality. Certainly there are other great rifles too...but just because they are bigger, doesn't automatically mean they will do better.
And btw... I shoot a single shot full choke 36" barrel 10ga w 3.5's for turkey...I can relate to the teeth rattling. It comes straight back, right now. But boy does it put a hurting on the other end
01-06-2014, 07:38 AM
#37
well then as many times as I've worn the badge "magnum eyebrow" then I'll never kill another deer!
heck I use to shoot a 25" barreled 10 ga with a scope off a bench that actualy rattled my teeth loose, reckon my shootin days are over, anybody wanna buy a couple junk rifles?
RR
heck I use to shoot a 25" barreled 10 ga with a scope off a bench that actualy rattled my teeth loose, reckon my shootin days are over, anybody wanna buy a couple junk rifles?
RR
01-06-2014, 08:00 AM
#38
My opinion is you should use the biggest gun you can van dam, the animal deserves the respect to be killed quickly and cleanly. I feel the more energy of the 7/08 is a better choice for a young hunter. You never know if the animal will move right when you shoot anything can happen. I agree and animal can run with the biggest guns with poor.shot placement. But don't you feel a big gun gives you the advance. Yes practices so you can make the good shots. But in hunting anything can happen.
Here is my daughter with this years buck...a nice 112" 8 point taken at 106 yards with a 243..."bang flop"...1 shot!
Last edited by emtrescue6; 01-06-2014 at 08:32 AM.
