Thanks for the responses, it is a great situation compared to the choices available when I bought my first rifle, I got a 7mm because the Dr I knew who had lots of guns & could afford anything used it for everything including elk. I’ve never been sorry on the choice of caliber or the Ruger 77.
He got his first turkey at my place last weekend & is excited for deer season. I’m not at all recoil shy so maybe that influences my preferred choices but this isn’t a teenager we are talking about and he wants to hunt elk next year so limiting calibers to 270 recoil level seems overly cautious to me. I’d like one rifle to be all he needs even if elk at 400 yards is a likely shot.
