Looking at a Savage 111 Trophy hunter xp in the 7mm-08. I can get it brand new with the accutrigger and a 3x9x40 Nikon for right at $600. I can always upgrade my optics later. Good buy?
Because people don't want heavy rifles when light weight guns are easier to handle.Instead of seeking a lighter rifle, how about seeking to get in shape, such that an 8 or even 10 pound rifle feels like a 6 lb rifle to carry, and recoils like a 12 or 14 lb rifle?
Because people don't want heavy rifles when light weight guns are easier to handle.
It really has nothing to do with "getting in shape"
A long barreled 12 lb gun will never handle as well as a short 6 lb gun.Of course it has something to do with "getting in shape": the gun, load, sighting equipement and the shooter are all intergral parts of the system that has to work together to put the bullet on target. Impoving any of these is an improvement to the system.
heavier guns are easier to shoot well.
I still didn't want to carry a Sendero all day when a Micro Medallion would kill deer as effectively and was easier to handle in dense woods.
Be careful out in that Nebraska wheat stubble next hunting season, it could spike you if you fall.
It wouldn't matter.That said, if you are hunting beyond brush gun distances, such that a shot might present itself anywhere from 15 feet to "way out past Ft. Mudge", would it be:
- better to be packing a rifle, or a carbine?
-better to be "in shape", or "round shape"?
The OP will be hunting texas hill country, out to 250 yards, from a high seat or the ground. Given those parameters, a rifle would be preferable.