Malone LaVeigh
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Made the mistake of taking my son to the gun show today. He's been wanting me to buy a new hunting rifle so he doesn't have to lug the Garand around any more. Normally, I just go the the shows to buy ammo and accessories. I am still so undereducated about center-fire rifles I don't like to try to pick out a rifle from all of the ones there. But the boy honed in on a Whitworth English Mauser in 30.06 in what looked like new condition with an after-market synthetic stock. I've been wanting to check out a Mauser action, but definitely don't have the know-how to try to build up a military surplus. My son's been wanting to try a 30.06, and the price didn't seem too bad, so I pulled out the old Visa card.
Now I need to know what kind of scope and other hardware to get for it. My only other hunting rifle came with a cheap Simmons scope that I haven't felt a need to change out yet. It gets pretty good groups at the range, about 1.5 inches at 100 yds, and I have gotten 3 pigs with 5 shots fired so far in the field.
But I'm up for getting something nicer for the new rifle. The Simmons fogs up in the rain, and one of the reason I went with the synthetic stock is I hunt pigs year round. The Simmons is a 4.5-14x40, and that seems to work pretty well for me.
So, any suggestions?
Now I need to know what kind of scope and other hardware to get for it. My only other hunting rifle came with a cheap Simmons scope that I haven't felt a need to change out yet. It gets pretty good groups at the range, about 1.5 inches at 100 yds, and I have gotten 3 pigs with 5 shots fired so far in the field.
But I'm up for getting something nicer for the new rifle. The Simmons fogs up in the rain, and one of the reason I went with the synthetic stock is I hunt pigs year round. The Simmons is a 4.5-14x40, and that seems to work pretty well for me.
So, any suggestions?