my friend wants

[Hiaboo]

woo woo mass residents represent! *note I know my location says NY but that's where I am in school*

I'm going to jump on the bandwagon and say a rimfire. I remember when I first started shooting with my uncle, I shot most of the common calibers in rifles and still my favorite -- The rimfire.

I agree with what WinchesterAA says 100%

 

[Clipper]

A .22 is nice if he wants one, but I'll bet there were several thousand German boys who learned to shoot with a M-98 that didn't do too badly...

 

[CB900F]

Fella's;

There are German military Mausers in .22 as training rifles. I'm not a mil-surp collector, but I understand that those .22's are rather valuable these days. Being that those training rifles exist, it would seem reasonable to presume that the Wehrmacht knew the value of starting to teach troops to shoot with something less than the 8 X 57.

The reason they didn't is problematical, but one could suppose it had something to do with rampant ambition and a tolerance factor close to negative numbers. Can you say "Hitler"? Which begs the question that if the troops had been taught with .22's first, their marksmanship may have been improved to the point where they'd-a won the war. Or, to paraphrase somebody's tag line here; 'You can't miss fast enough to win'.

900F