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Re: What do your kids shoot?
« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2007, 08:25:37 AM »
My grandson was born on the 19th of April, so I bought him a Youth Model 870 with two chokes. My daughter said, "Dad, you don't even know if Dash will like to shoot or hunt." I told her that he was part of a chip off of the old block and he's love it. Besides I took my son in law to Montana with Pacyew varmint hunting and he went wild. The lad had never owned a gun before so Pacyew picked out a 10/22 and I bought it for a present for the event. Now all I need to do is get the family to move from Juneau to the Lower 48 so I can hunt and fish with them more often or I need to save shekels to go there for fishing and hunting.(that would be a shame, hahaha)

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Re: What do your kids shoot?
« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2007, 12:30:57 PM »
Good Job Sisu, way to convert another one!
sometimes all it takes is to take 'em shootin'.

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Re: What do your kids shoot?
« Reply #17 on: July 04, 2007, 07:12:09 AM »
My 14yr old son shoots a Model 700 in 7-08 slingin 140gr partitions.  My 12yr  old . is gonna shoot a .260 rem with 140gr. core-lokt ultras.
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Re: What do your kids shoot?
« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2007, 09:05:15 PM »
My four kids all got started with a 30-30 marlin for a couple years and then moved up to a 7mm mauser. The two boys are now shooting 7mm mags.  All my kids were born two years apart so it worked out well moving them from one gun to the next until they turned 14 and got their own rifles. My youngest girl is just stating this year at 13 (took her longer to decide is she wanted to hunt) My oldest girl is still using the 7mm Mauser. It is light and shoots very straight. This was her blacktail from last year. Only a fork but it was a very old buck.

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Re: What do your kids shoot?
« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2007, 04:32:01 PM »
Anything with a .308 type casing works great.  .243 (necked down .308) is fine for deer and smaller stuff, but sometimes it would be nice to have a slightly bigger bullet even for deer.  Then you go to the 7mm-08, which is a great gun and can stop elk if needed in a pinch.  Then you go to the .308, which can handle elk up close as well as deer.  My favorite for elk/deer/bear would be the .358.  It's just a .308 necked up to take 200-250 grain bullets.  It doesn't kick me as hard as my .243 does.  Some of that issue is related to the weight of the rifle, but you get the point. 

So...my choices would be the 7mm-08 if only going after deer sized game, and the .358 if they were to take on some larger animals. 

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Re: What do your kids shoot?
« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2007, 06:48:37 PM »
I won a Kimber 84m in 338 Federal (308 necked up to 338) and my daughter loves shooting it. The Kimber is a very light rifle around 6lbs. shooting it is very comparable to my Remington 270. It is a very easy shooting caliber in terms of felt recoil.

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Re: What do your kids shoot?
« Reply #21 on: July 27, 2007, 09:13:02 AM »
I don't have kids, but my wife is rather recoil sensitive so I have her shooting a 6.5x55 swedish mauser.  Good shooting little gun, has been sporterized as far as the bolt handle being turned and the safety flopped over the top.  Picked it up at a gagrage sale for $65, put a 4x leupold on it I had in the gun safe. I had planned to handload for it, but she can run 3 shots of the federal 140gr into right at 1 1/4", so I'm not toying with it.  I have had several buddies borrow it for their kids "first" hunt and they have all done well with it.  Being the Carbine with the 20" barrel, very easy for a kid to carry.
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