If I didn't mention this already,the .243 is now my "big" gun.....
Gee Inqwe....
For your size and height, if you consider a 243 to be your "Big Gun".....
Then for Schtick, in proportion, his "BIG GUN" would be a 17 Hornet....
just thinking out loud is all....
I'm sure he'll be along showing us all pics of the number of brown bears he's taken with a 17 Hornet... with his hat on their head, and his rifle laying in the stream, beside his fishing pole and a salmon with a bullet hole in it... In HD...