mdThanatos
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I am in the market for a new rifle, been looking at the Stevens 200 and the Marlin XL7 and XS7 but can't decide what caliber I want. My shooting experience with rifles is an SKS, Winchester 94 .30-30, M44 and a Yugo M48. So hopefully you gents can assist in my decision as to what caliber to purchase, and I am sad to say that all the Marlins seem to have dried up locally so I am kinda sad today.
Now to me with regards to recoil, my M44 kicks like a mule and isn't a pleasure to shoot and the M48 is more bearable. The SKS I can shoot all day and the .30-30 is a little stronger than it.
With that said I have looked at the recoil table from Chuck Hawk's site and have tried to imagine what each potential caliber would be like based on my own experiences. From what that table says a .243 would be very similar to that of the 7.62x39 (SKS) would this be a safe assumption or am I misinterpreting the data?
If my assumption is correct then a .308 would feel more like the M44 and the .30-06 would be even higher than those correct?
Thanks in advance,
MD
Now to me with regards to recoil, my M44 kicks like a mule and isn't a pleasure to shoot and the M48 is more bearable. The SKS I can shoot all day and the .30-30 is a little stronger than it.
With that said I have looked at the recoil table from Chuck Hawk's site and have tried to imagine what each potential caliber would be like based on my own experiences. From what that table says a .243 would be very similar to that of the 7.62x39 (SKS) would this be a safe assumption or am I misinterpreting the data?
If my assumption is correct then a .308 would feel more like the M44 and the .30-06 would be even higher than those correct?
Thanks in advance,
MD