Thread: First centrefire rifle

Originally Posted by hunter308

I was actually going to buy one of those Ruger american rifles they are nice and light but after handling it and feeling how flimsy the stock is I would not bother unless a company like boyds has a good rigid aftermarket stock for it if you are going to go the Ruger route it would be better to save up the coin a bit more and go all out and get the M77 Hawkeye.
For those guys who say the 270 has unpleasant recoil and kicks real hard it doesn't and this is coming from a person who is a bit hesitant about firing anything that gives a good wallop to the shoulder, I avoided firing that caliber for quite a few years because everyone was going around and saying it is savage with its recoil etc,etc,etc and here I was happily shooting my 308's with not a care in the world and unaware that the 308 actually kicks harder than the 270 but not sharp. Yes I will admit that my first ever 270 which was a Brno zkk600 did kick the shitters out of me but that was purely down to a very poor fitting rifle resulting in me wearing the eye bell of the scope and was enough to put me off shooting a 270 ever again. Roll forward another year I was working for a guy who just bought two rifles in 270 a marlin X7 (which is the model I owned at the time but in 7mm08) and a ruger m77 hawkeye, I bore sighted those scopes for him and told him to fire off a round only to see that he was pulling his shots so I decided to help him out and fire a few off to finish sighting in his scope seeing he was on limited supply of ammo, so I started off with the marlin and it did not give me the beating like the brno i had did and started to enjoy shooting it, then it was on to the Ruger had never shouldered or fired one before and it was a perfect fit to my shoulder and that also was very pleasant to shoot, roll forward a couple of years I picked up my Remington 700 in 270 because I could not find a 7mm08 that I liked that was inside my budget and really enjoy shooting it due to the good fit it has to my shoulder as a result it built up my confidence a bit more and wound me up behind the trigger of a 264 win mag which i just absolutely fell in love with shooting dammit now I want to get in the ring with a 7mm rem mag and a 7mm WSM. so if the OP does get the opportunity to shoot some rifles owned by members don't avoid trying the 270 based on what you read here because it is not really that unpleasant at all once you get used to the feel of the rifle if I had half the chance I would allow you to come down to have a go at shooting my 270 if I could organise somewhere close by for you to have a go.

You wait till you have started cranking those 150's up, then tell us about the recoil.