My son and I talked about this a couple of days ago. This summer, we are going to spend some time looking over some rifles and see if anything especially appeals to him. Most of our extra time this spring will be taken up with sports, turkeys, and wishing. He really doesn’t care about cartridge, but ultimately I’ll leave that up to him as well. He understands the logic of readily available (in normal times) factory ammo so we are going to focus on .308, .270, .30/06, etc.

Thanks for the input.