Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles is the 270 too much for a kid to start out with?

I ask the same queston myself there is a thread posted on here about hunting with a hot chamber there is a few that act like it is a sin far as the 270 i think it is a pretty good gun for some beginners its not like its a 338 lapua i have two that have pretty mild recoil

I apoligize if this is old news,
Check the Hodgdon '09 reload manual, magazine size. There was an article abt. Moderatly Effective (reduced) Loads for standard calibers.
Saving you the expence of upgrades later as your young hunter grows.
Put on an aftermarket stock that you can cut for shorter length of pull, saving the original for future.

Personal opinion, might develope flinch

Flinching isn't an opinion,it is a fact and therein lies the difference..................

dicksen,

I hope this is a joke,for your sake. If so...points have been awarded for the hilarity,if not...my ability to read signs continues at a 100% accuracy level. For your part,I'd be happy to bat 99%,if you could pass that Buck.

Pun intended...................

I hear good things about modest weight/length 25-06 case capacity with 75gr x's at 3700fps+ for the kids to cut their teeth on.

Probably get a hug out of the deal and stay busy with a knife too...or so the story goes..............

Just my opinion, but a .270 is a bit too much rifle for a 9-year-old. My own father, who knew a thing or two about the .270, started me first with a .22, then a .257 Roberts with which I shot a whitetail and two mule deer by age 13. It wasn't until I was in my mid-teens that I was allowed to move up to the .270.

You may be loosing some ability to read sign, or there would've been commentary on the presense of R2D2, there off to the right in the background. Kid mighta had some help from The Force?

Nice buck, regardless.

:)C3P0 took that pic

I'd let him keep it................

A .270 was my first rifle, when I was 12. I was afraid of it well into my 20's. A .270 with full power 130's is too much noise and recoil for a pre-teen.

FWIW my kids didn't start until age 12. They started out with a 22 rimfire at an early age.
I bought them each a used 30-06 to start out with because they are cheap around here.
You can start out with 100 gr bullets and IMR 4759 for a low muzzle blast, low recoil load. Progress from there.
You can work up to a Sierra 125 gr at 2900 fps or a Nosler 125 gr Ballistic Tip. Either of these will kill deer just fine.
Make sure they practice with good hearing protection or they will flinch from the noise. !Have a gunsmith cut the buttstock to fit them.
The heavier guns don't kick as much and if you hunt from a deerstand weight doesn't matter. You could carry it for them if it is to heavy. A light rifle will be hard to shoot and beat the crap out of you.
As they get older lengthen the stock and if you feel like you need to, increase the bullet weight to whatever floats your boat! YMMV
whelennut

I belive you done right by them whelen thats what my did for me and my brother we never developed any uncrontrolable flinches or anything like that and when I got older i had a gun that I could use for all of my hunting needs

Wow.

May as well go to the Goodwill get some size 14 shoes for them too and simply stuff them full of paper to "fit" and remove same as they grow.

Amazing to me,the depths some will go to start their kids off dead wrong.................

Thinking I'd not go above a 243, and that might be stretching it. I'd sooner see you get him a fast twist 223 or 22-250 so he could sling TSX's

Your such a fuggin douchebag! you need your azz wipped, it would do wonders! keep hiding behind that keyboard, you would not say half of your BS face to face with most people...

Typical little man syndrome!

BTW, how big is the lift on your truck?

I'm rather at ease in the flesh and would delight in connecting those dots for you,so as to enhance your comprehension.

Stick with what you know(whatever that may be)..............

The 270 is too much for a nine year old. Are there exceptions? Sure but it doesn't sound like the original poster's son is one.
I'm surprised this topic has garnered any debate.

Even someone who was an exception themselves at 9 should realize that doesn't carry on to many others unless maybe they only want us to think they were.

PWC- What LOP do you start with on CF for the youngun's?

12.5" seems to fill alotta shoes. Glass is as equally,if not more important and this is where the 6x42 shines yet again. It's exceedingly generous eyerelief allows the kids to gun a rifle,less hamstringing others from using same.

I'm a proponent of using a rest,whether it dirt,stumps,shooting sticks,bipob,rucksack,etc...just to keep them tasting success.

For fun,a 3-way butt bears much fruit,but the added weight is a bane for hindlegged pursuits on the little guys.................