Thread: First rifle considerations

Thats the thing.

a decent 308 (or similar) bolt action rifle will (provided the ideologues dont succeed in banning them) provide a viable hunting tool for decades. a few hundred bucks dont make any difference over that timeframe.

But having something cheap that does potentially not shoot well will cost you more in wasted ammo, game animals and the fact that youll buy a proper gun the second time.

Luckily nowadays its not juat the tikkas that are great shooters. Looking at tm and the large amount of guns that are being sold. I dont see many tikkas in non exotic caliberes there, which to me indicates people are keeping them.

So no you dont have to buy a tikka, there are other options (howa being one of them), but whatever you do buy something that you know will do the job well.