I have an M48 and I love it. My opinion is give him that rifle and if HE wants to upgrade or customize then he can do it at his own disgression. He should love the fact that you gave him a rifle in the first place!
I have a very similar pre 64 in .30-06-these are very good rifles, built to hand down to the next generation again and again. The flat metal butt plate is a kicker, but I’ve never bothered to replace mine. I did refinish the stock on mine. They are great pieces of Americana, I hope someone...
I have a rifle tag for mule deer and another for antelope. Will use my 28 nosler and 175 gr ablr’s or my .300 wm and 180’gr AB’s. I’ll have the 7mm-08 with 150 ablr’s in the truck in case I think I can use it first.
Will just have to see how things play out
Daisy red Ryder than later a crossman 760pellet gun. I had to pay half of the pellet gun which was a good lesson.
Marlin .22 bolt action with open sights.
Harrington and Richardson 20 gauge single shot shotgun-killed my first duck, pheasant and quail with that gun.
.30-30 marlin lever action...
Many of my firsts were with archery equiptment. . .
First elk w/ a rifle .300 wm rem 700 bullet?
Pronghorn .30-06 win model 70 bullet?
First trip to Africa .300 wm rem 700 and 200 gr tbbc handload
First whitetail-7mm-08 rem 700 140 gr Sierra pro hunter handload
Mtn goat-.300 wm rem 700 180...
I haven’t seen the difference in accuracy but I have seen a big difference in velocity-and velocity certainly affects accuracy.
Have you just for fun, shot both over a chronograph?
A .30-30 marlin lever action with open sights and some round nose hornady ammunition. I also still have the antlers although I’m sure I don’t know why anymore. My daughters both killed bigger “first bucks” than mine!
7mm-08 Remington 700 and 120 gr federal fusion-her first deer.
7mm-08...
Had peaches and blackberries off my own plants today.
Hope you can find those grouse again in a couple weeks, I bet even a spruce grouse in there somewhere!
Would think a .275 rigby and a proper bullet of 150 or 170 ish grains would be excellent! Ive never shot one but have read a lot of praise for them.
I was surprised a bit how well the little 7 worked for me.
I’m home, have afew more stories to tell, just working up to it. Part of the success of the trip was that I only missed one shot on big game. Only two animals needed to be shot twice and one of them was really just insurance. All the others were well hit and died quickly and easily found. If...
I had expressed a desire to hunt an ostrich. I just wanted the experience, didn’t want any feathers or any taxidermy pieces and parts, just the hunt. My ph doesn’t have them in his properties and most ph’s hate them. They have spook easily and when they run they legitimately spook all the...
so anyway, -in the favor of the partition ( which I am still not). is a very good book called “One Man, One Rifle, One Land” by JY Jones. It is older but still available and is a worthy read
This is why I Don’t use partitions and didn’t shoot nosler bullets until the Accubond. Partitions come apart-and that base might end up anywhere.
I suppose my opinion of what a bullet should behave like is more in line with the Accubond performance. And I’ve had good success with the ablr as...
The A Frame broke a rib on the entrance and exit and stuck inside the off shoulder up against one of the big bones but did not break it. So it completed a pass through the rib cage taking heart and lungs as it went and damaged the far shoulder but didn’t quite make it to the skin. The bullet...
Late in the hunt my ph asked me if I would shoot a cow kudu to be sent to the butchery. We got on a herd of old and young kudu and as they crested a ridge in light brush he told me to take one of the lead cows. 380 yards and they were onto us!
No time to set up and talk about it or lean on...
Either bullet will be outstanding. Far more important than the projectile is where you put that bullet in the first place.
The other guy in my camp was shooting the eldx from a .300 wm and his son a 150 gr hot core from a .270. They both loved what they were slinging but they also made their...