Thread: rifle

.308 is good, .270 is good, the 6.5's are good (depending on bullet) - and 7mm-08 is extra good.
It recoils less than the .308 and .270 and it will kill anything in this country. My mate shoots one and I've seen him deck animals (farm) out over 500 yards,
I reload and shoot 7mm, and if you go that way - bullet selection is quite extensive ........ or used to be.

If you're gonna buy and sell, then I suppose you gotta look at resale value - I don't do that, I just buy and shoot until it's buggered. I've owned my main 'shooter' (BRNO 7x57) for 54 years and it will still shoot one and a half inch at one hundred yards. I've put over 3,000 rounds through that gun and it will probably do my son another thousand or so - then you re-barrel it.

That BRNO has never given me a 'lick' of trouble. The scopes I've put on it have, but that gun - never.

I read somewhere about 12 ft/lb of recoil is what the average hunter can tolerate with out developing a flinch - and the 7mm-08 is around that range.
There are 'Recoil Charts' online ........... look them up.

Oh yeah - just saw the post above mine - I forgot about suppressors - they change the game.