Okay so as a kid i killed my first deer with a win. 30-30 at the age of 9. I remember sighting in the rifle in the months prior, and i remember the feel of the metal buttplate driving into my shoulder. Looking back at that time i am surprized i could hit anything from flinching before shooting. The length of pull was waaay to long for me and i could barely reach the trigger. The fear of that guns recoil left me shooting only .22s for the next few years (thankfully i grew out of it). (FYI it wasnt as much the recoil as it was the point on the buttplate but i didnt know that then) I dont want my kids to be scaird of a gun like that.
I have been letting my kids to go at there own pace but living in indiana, we couldnt use rifles unless they were chambered in a pistol round, my choices were limited. I bought them an h&r youth .44 mag, that i down loaded for them.
We live in ky and can use any centerfire rifle we want. My kids can now shoot a full power .44 mag load (240gr) and the distance of the shots where we hunt mandate a different rifle.
Now i have always been told that a .243 or 7mm-08 are very light recoiling rifles but have never shot one, and no one i know has one i could use. So my question is... how much less/more will a .243 or 7mm-08 kick than our .44 mag if all guns weigh the same?
Sorry for the long post got kinda carried away
I have been letting my kids to go at there own pace but living in indiana, we couldnt use rifles unless they were chambered in a pistol round, my choices were limited. I bought them an h&r youth .44 mag, that i down loaded for them.
We live in ky and can use any centerfire rifle we want. My kids can now shoot a full power .44 mag load (240gr) and the distance of the shots where we hunt mandate a different rifle.
Now i have always been told that a .243 or 7mm-08 are very light recoiling rifles but have never shot one, and no one i know has one i could use. So my question is... how much less/more will a .243 or 7mm-08 kick than our .44 mag if all guns weigh the same?
Sorry for the long post got kinda carried away