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


The easy answer is a Tikka T3x in 308 and the Burris FF2. It will kill elk as well as the 7 or the 300 and with a lot less recoil. I really hate to see a new hunter start out with a rifle that has the recoil of the 7 or the 300, he will be a lot better off with a lower recoiling cartridge that he can shoot well. Too me the 7 and the 30 both recoil way out of proportion to their effectiveness, given todays bullets neither cartridge is necessary for elk at 300 yds.

Less recoil will equal more practice and the 308 is a lot less expensive to feed than the 7 or the 300 which makes more practice likely.

drover

223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.

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