Thread: Selection of caliber for new shooter(s)

Thanks for the input gents. Reading all responses from here and other places, it does seem that a reasonable path is a .22 and then a little later something bigger when we actually go hunting anything bigger than rabbit and\or at longer ranges. The ammo for the .22 seems about half the cost of the 17 and a lot less than the cost of the 223. (based on my maths where I looked at a well known dealer and took the 'averages' of the least and most expensive in each caliber).