Slightly less bushy but here goes. A friend of mine is getting into rifle shooting and has asked me for some advice on setups, I've given him advice based on his needs but it got me thinking. What kind of rifle setups would people here use or wish to use? Be it bushcraft, survival, plinking whatever tickles you.
1 sub 12 airgun, 1 rimfire and 1 big fella from me to start.
Air rifle: I have to go Springer, there's something about them I prefer (although admittedly I use a PCP)
I'd say Weihrauch HW-77K in .22, nothing too fancy for optics, 3-9×40 nikko sterling nighteater. Great little setup and the rekord trigger on the 77 was in my opinion the single best mechanical trigger ever fitted to an air gun, accurate as you fancy and spent many happy hours shooting tictacs with mine.
Smallbore powder burner: for me, there's only 1 choice here, the Ruger 10/22. Really versatile and capable platform, plenty of aftermarket mods if you like them. Again wouldn't be going mad with optics and quite possibly the same nighteater on the .22lr I've used one on both airguns and rimfires and it's a good option that doesn't cost the earth. As for a can I would say the decimeater from Hogan, it's a newbie (relatively) but a good quiet can with subsonic CCI in my experience. Bugger to clean though. No bipod on the rim fire for me, just gets in the way!
Fullbore powder burner: that's a tough one for me as I've loved so many. If I had to dive in and pick one capable of both target and hunting id have to say Remington 700 SPS varmint in .308 win. Based around the venerable and much revered K98 action they're a very, very good rifle and have been around forever for a reason. Fullbores for me, frankly I wouldn't worry about a can, noisy either way. Optics I'm going to risk having rotten fruit thrown by saying the vortex viper PST 2.5-10x44. Cracking scope for the money good reticle and a crisp scope picture. Over 300 it may well struggle but hunting at over 300, for all I am capable, is something I would be unwilling to do. Bipod I would say the classic by Harris engineering, pretty big standard but again, brilliant bit of kit and basically an industry benchmark now.
Might prove interesting this one! What's your views ladies and gentlemen?
1 sub 12 airgun, 1 rimfire and 1 big fella from me to start.
Air rifle: I have to go Springer, there's something about them I prefer (although admittedly I use a PCP)
I'd say Weihrauch HW-77K in .22, nothing too fancy for optics, 3-9×40 nikko sterling nighteater. Great little setup and the rekord trigger on the 77 was in my opinion the single best mechanical trigger ever fitted to an air gun, accurate as you fancy and spent many happy hours shooting tictacs with mine.
Smallbore powder burner: for me, there's only 1 choice here, the Ruger 10/22. Really versatile and capable platform, plenty of aftermarket mods if you like them. Again wouldn't be going mad with optics and quite possibly the same nighteater on the .22lr I've used one on both airguns and rimfires and it's a good option that doesn't cost the earth. As for a can I would say the decimeater from Hogan, it's a newbie (relatively) but a good quiet can with subsonic CCI in my experience. Bugger to clean though. No bipod on the rim fire for me, just gets in the way!
Fullbore powder burner: that's a tough one for me as I've loved so many. If I had to dive in and pick one capable of both target and hunting id have to say Remington 700 SPS varmint in .308 win. Based around the venerable and much revered K98 action they're a very, very good rifle and have been around forever for a reason. Fullbores for me, frankly I wouldn't worry about a can, noisy either way. Optics I'm going to risk having rotten fruit thrown by saying the vortex viper PST 2.5-10x44. Cracking scope for the money good reticle and a crisp scope picture. Over 300 it may well struggle but hunting at over 300, for all I am capable, is something I would be unwilling to do. Bipod I would say the classic by Harris engineering, pretty big standard but again, brilliant bit of kit and basically an industry benchmark now.
Might prove interesting this one! What's your views ladies and gentlemen?