Thread: First centrefire rifle

Take your time and work out what type of shooting you would like to do and what type of shooting you'll actually do.
A couple or three years ago I finally got my fal. I had always done a fair amount of shooting on my uncles farm, using his guns so never needed to get my own. When I did get it I bought a ruger 10/22, a shot gun and a 223. Then I bought shortly after a norinco Jw15a with the over barrel suppressor because it was bolt action so my then 12yr old son wasn't going to use a semi 22. I now only have the norinco and the 223 out out that lot and I just bought a ruger 17hmr. The reason for selling the 10/22 was the norinco is so good I found myself having that in preference over the 10/22. I sold my shot gun because I want using it much at all and the type of shooting I found myself doing is small game hunting on the farm with occasional goat hunt. At the moment I have the rifles that suit how and what I shoot. The Jw15a for possum, hmr for rabbits, hare and pest birds at longer ranges than the Jw15a is capable of and the 223 if I go on a goat hunt. I'm not one for deer stalking so don't need anything bigger so no point spending coin on that type of rifle. If I was wealthy which I'm not, I'd have a rifle in every caliber just cause, but that's not how it is.

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