Thread: Hunting rifle

I have to disagree with the idea of buying a second rate rifle then trading up after couple of years. You will learn quicker easier and better with good equipment like the tikka and VX6. In a decade they wont be state of the art but still good. “The man with one gun” is what you want.

With a 22 you can get a servicable gun and scope cheaper eg Norinco JW15 with tasco 4x and it will do the job for marksmanship practice. Working range for hunting with a 22 is 30m not 100 by the way . Rabbits are challenging small targets.

Originally Posted by Bagheera

I have to disagree with the idea of buying a second rate rifle then trading up after couple of years. You will learn quicker easier and better with good equipment like the tikka and VX6. In a decade they wont be state of the art but still good. “The man with one gun” is what you want.

With a 22 you can get a servicable gun and scope cheaper eg Norinco JW15 with tasco 4x and it will do the job for marksmanship practice. Working range for hunting with a 22 is 30m not 100 by the way . Rabbits are challenging small targets.

man..you need to get out more..30mtrs for rabbits!!!! I shoot them further than that with the shotgun...now 60-75 is about my personal limit these days with .22lr as dont get it out often but when your using it a lot 100mtrs is perfectly doable.
and after a couple of years you dont trade up...you KEEP the cheaper first rifle for wet days,loaner to mate hunting with you...etc etc the OP says he has 6k to spend....... already has scope sorted.....plenty of VERY good rifles come up on here around the grand mark would do 90% of all the hunting most folks will ever do with ease..... the other 10% will wait till the training wheels are off.