Originally Posted by specneeds
Trying to give good advice to a 24 year old newer hunter who needs to by his first hunting rifle. He wants to be able to use it for elk & seems OK with a little recoil.

He wants to spend as little as possible to get a decent rifle. Told him 7mm or 300 are good choices for elk at 300+ yards.

So under $500 gets
Weatherby Vanguard
TC compass
Ruger American
Tikka T3x
Browning AB3
Howa
Mauser M18
????

He planning to buy rings glass after rifle - thought Burris FF2, Meopta, Zeiss

Am I missing something?

Thanks


Budget rifle: a used but clean Vanguard, Howa or Tikka in 7-08 or, if he doesn't reload, 6.5 Creed.

For the scope: Burris FF2 or, for just a bit more jingle, SWFA fixed 6. Clean used copies of those can be picked up with a shopping too.

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