Thread: first rifle

Ditto on the .22LR comments ... but to answer the question. 25 years ago I asked Bill McLeod at Sportways Gunshed in Auckalnd the exact same question and he put a bunch of second hand .243's in my hands and I chose a boring old reliable & bullet-proof Ruger MkI(?)in .243.
I shot everything with it for 10 years ... from bunnies to tahr. Today, my mate owns it and he is carrying on that tradition of the one calibre for a whole lot of game. I have replaced it with a number of calibers depending on what I'm hunting ... and funnily enough, I'm looking at a Sauer Outback in .243. What goes around ... comes around eh?!?!