Your Hunting Rifle

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I meant pronounced grips may be too "small" but you all got it.

My five foot girlfriend fits a Montecarlo wity a 12.5 lop well. Women have longer necks and smaller shoulders, its about body shape. My neck (or lack thereof) may be equally " long" but it connects at an angle. A big reason (besides bad form) so many "~~ country girls~~" forgo cheek weld and think they can't shoot anything bigger than a 243 while smaller guys are out there with 30-06 etc, besides machismo...

I don't know anything about gold, but I do know that shotgunners pay a lot more attention to fit than rifle shooters for a good reason. Ability to shoot intuitively. We say "points like a shotgun" for a reason. The recoil mitigation doesn't hurt either.


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Stock fit matters to those shooters who shoot the same way over and over. Trap, skeet, silhouette, running boar, fclass etc.
Joe hunter wears a puffy jacket or tshirt shoots off the hood, backpack on or off, or prone, gloved, standing, sitting blah blah blah. Everything that’s a benefit is a weakness somewhere. Learning how to shoot a hunting gun well has very little to do with the living room stock fit that feels good exercise. But being happy with how your gun looks is important, especially for pictures of it.
 
Not a lot of adjustable combs out there set to mimic a cheek piece.


As far recoil goes 12ga target loads produce about as much recoil as a 300 win mag in comparison a 12ga gets shot a whole lot more.
 
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Here is a picture of a cheek piece and cast stock compared to a straight line as best I can represent it. The cheek piece provides support to your face while allowing them to move away from each other during recoil. The cast allows your eye to align with the centre line of the bore. You look where the rifle points. Preference is preference. We can all do what we like. But stock design and shape do make a difference. Even in the field.

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Not a lot of adjustable combs out there set to mimic a cheek piece.


As far recoil goes 12ga target loads produce about as much recoil as a 300 win mag in comparison a 12ga gets shot a whole lot more.
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They sure do but it's a garden hose lol. Most will be thankful the same degree of precision is not needed, me included haha.
 
Rifle stocks don’t need to mimick shot gun stocks to perform. Shooting prone changes points of contact with your stock. Shooting standing or off a bench still again. There is no right answer other than shooting a rifle well in all conditions.
Unless you shoot your hunting rifle off a bench more often than in the field. Then is it really a hunting rifle?
 
Yeah, but theres no argument against shooting a stock that fits you better and transmits less felt recoil

Period
 
99% of my shooting ain't at game animals. What I hear here is "you can still master that which isnt what fits you best"

Sure.

But why?

It aint the army they dont just hand you a C7. We have choices.
 
Yep.

and theres no reason not to do it with guns that fit you poorly too! You can if you want to, but there's no advantage :)

You can even choose the hardest recoiling, worst fitting rifle/stock combo as you can find and I bet you become "good at killing" with it. I believe in you. But there's no reason anyone shouldn't make it more enjoyable for themselves.

Is there?

As far as positional shooting goes, one can choose the rifle that fits them best in the positions they will be shooting from most of the time. Or whichever one they think is most important for the kind of hunting they'll be doing.

Would rather have a stock that fits me well standing than one that fits me well prone, so the 10% of the time I'm shooting prone doesn't really affect the 90% of the time I don't. YMMV.

I mean if the point is "you can learn to be great with riflestocks not ideal for you" definitely, but let's not call it a virtue haha.
 
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^ but fit and finish don't matter?

12ga target loads produce about as much recoil as a 300 win mag
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This seems, wrong?

Bucky makes a fairly decent point, but I'm still not going out of my way to get a rifle that doesn't fit. I wouldn't go buy a rifle with 12.5 inch LOP because I could shoot it from a field position if I had to...
 
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^ but fit and finish don't matter?



This seems, wrong?

Bucky makes a fairly decent point, but I'm still not going out of my way to get a rifle that doesn't fit. I wouldn't go buy a rifle with 12.5 inch LOP because I could shoot it from a field position if I had to...
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He's 100% right.

You can master a gun that fits you poorly.

I still just wonder why. I mean it ain't like we have a service rifle lol. Although eve the Enfield had several different lengths of stock, but you know what I mean :)
 
I'd agree with that too, skill is skill. The top gear where the race car driver beats their super cars in a Lada comes to mind.

Still doesn't sell me on buying a rifle that doesn't fit, it certainly can't hurt. Plus having a rifle that shoots well from offhand is hardly a disadvantage.

And back to Emma Stone and Melissa Macarthy...
 
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Gun fit and caliber choice are in the same group. It’s what you’ve used successfully that becomes the best. Can’t be argued. But it is.
 
Gun fit has to do with body shape, it could not be anymore quantifiable. That's like suggesting I wear an xl shirt and size 32 pants because I "use them successfully"

I think all the talking heads right now have owned at least 50 plus hunting rifles, might be we all know what guns fit us
 
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