Whats a good ladies caliber?

^dont get your panties in a bunch: from your initial post it seems you are buying this gun more for yourself than you are for her, so you cant fault people for trying to tell you to make sure its something that fits her and that she likes.
 
Kenny_G2 said:
30/30 or 308 will do what you want with deer or bear.

My wife uses a 308 for moose. I bought a youth model Marlin XS7 in 7mm-08 that she will try out this fall.
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Awesome choice! I love my soft shooting Marlin XL7.270 and just shot a 3 hole 100m target with sand bags. 2 bullets in an elongated hole and 1 hole very close. A nickle would cover the group. I think I should sell some other stuff and get a youth XS7 for my wife.
 
walther said:
As I have already stated, I know what guns she likes. And as already stated, I am not asking the best way to pick out a gun for her, I am asking the differences between calibers. So instead of repeatedly telling me I am going about buying her a gun wrong, keep in mind that no one on this forum knows her (at all), let alone as well as I do, so lets stick to the topic.
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My .270 Marlin is so light and is so easy on the arm with a super soft recoil pad. The .270 is a do all cartridge IMHO. If you are near Kamloops she can shoot mine. PM me. Shooting is believing.

.270 the wonder cartridge.
 
My wife shoots every thing from a cz lux 22 to a sako in 375 H&H the most important thing for her is stock fit, woman tend to have longer necks and rounder shoulders so what fits a man may not fit a woman . Let her shoulder the rifles look to see that the butt is in full contact with her shoulder and go from there.

She prefers the drop stocks like the lux, sako's and weatherby's or bavarian style stocks.
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There is no need to get her more gun than she needs for the task at hand. Bigger caliber = more recoil= less fun and precision. 25-06, 6.5X55 or the like is more than adequate to shoot a deer or a bear.

Even .270 seems like overkill.

Just my two cents worth...
 
7.62x54r it's just a "touch" more or less as of the sks.. every beginner should start here. Of course using the right equipment, a sturdy mosin nagant with great original buttplate on the stock :)
 
A .30-'06 equivalent with a steel buttplate? On a rifle that already is too long for a lot of men?

My ladies have a tendency to be nice, smart and small, all at the same time.

If your lady is something like that, think about two rifles for her: a 6.5x55, loaded down a bit, for a deer/bear rifle, and a .222 Remington for everything else, including coyotes out to 200 yards. The .222 might be old but is has almost zip recoil, it is easy to load, it is easy to make VERY freakin' accurate and it is a cheap cartridge to load. With a forming die, you can convert some of that .223 brass that litters every rifle range in the country. Twenty-three grains of Ball C-2 is an excellent load with 50 or 55-grain bullets. It's something that she can shoot all day long without it battering her shoulder black and blue.

Think on it.
 
There is, of course, an alternative to buying a new rifle in ANY calibre.

Think on this:

SMLE and even Number 4 sporters still can be found in the under-$100 range and some of them still have really decent barrels. With 150-grain handloads, they don't really have a lot of recoil.

Number 4 can be scoped easily with a Gairlochian mount and it's cheaper than drilling holes in your rifle. Number 1 can be scoped easily with the S&K Number 1 SMLE mount.

I am getting about 1 MOA out of both types of rifle, shooting Hornady Spire Point flatbase 150s.... and I do NOT relish recoil.

SHORT and BANTAM butts are available, they fit many rifles to shorter men and to women, and they are not expensive at all: usually $20 or so.

Let her try one out after it has been properly sighted-in and oiled up. You just might not get it back.... ever!
 
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