It seems like you always need 1 more gun.
A little back story… my Dad has been down for a while. He had to have a leg amputated and then had some problems with his other foot due to diabetes. He sorta gave up and just hung at the house all day every day. Couldn’t hardly get him out.
A few weeks ago he about left us bc his kidneys were not functioning well and his potassium got fatally high. It’s a miracle of God he’s still here. Fast forward to now he’s on dialysis and over all feeling much better. I’ve got him fired up about rifles again and got him wanting to shoot and hopefully get situated so he can hunt a little this year. Said all that to say he’s recoil sensitive.
I got him out two Saturdays ago and he shot a 243, one of my 223 AR’s and my buddies 6.5 Bergara. He did pretty well to have not shot in 4 or 5 years.
At the same time my youngest is about to turn 9. He’s been shooting with me a good bit lately and the 308 is just a tad too much for him. He can hit with it to 200 pretty successfully but recoil gets the better of him and he starts missing at 300.
During this time, he shot my buddies 6.5CM out to 400 with no issue.
All that lead to this. I picked up this Howa in 6.5 CM this week. We shot it to 600 yesterday with 140 Barnes OTM and some hand loaded 123 ELD M over Acc 2700. I have no idea on group size bc we never shot paper. We just shot steel plates. I was hitting the key hole at 100 and 200 with the Barnes. Swapped to the EldM and could hold a roughly 5 inch group at 400 yards.
I felt like it was pretty good for a thin barreled sub $700 rifle. They can both easily shoot this with light recoil and ammo is cheap to load. I plan on loading some 120 TTSX for them to hunt with.
I hope they burn the barrel out of it.
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