Thread: Looking for a New Hunting rifle

yeah - but its all good fun - the 6.5 boys bite like proverbial sharks - I dont care really what caliber all have good and bad points - I have shot a lot of deer with a .222 would I recommend it no - my .270 absolutely my .308 absolutely - but the rifle- well character- soul even and some semblance of craftsmanship - rather than a computer milled blah - look at an early Sako and one thinks of a room full of craftsmen well people since women did it to all hand checkering Sako stocks - the fit and finish achieved by skilled people rather than a computerized milling machine - steel floor plates not plastic (well some kind of synthetic ) I simply cant stand it when on the forum a new hunter asks for advice and one puts up rifles like the early Tikkas LA 55s and later 695 early Rem 700.s 788 Rem even BRNO,s Winchesters early Rugers all good and then some bugger just cant help himself and yup a Tikka T3 in 6.5 crudmore is the only rifle for NZ wrong and right but not me