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To: ReeWalker
Nearly all SKS rifles have a short stock, which makes them fit smaller people better. Accuracy varies. It can be a good coyote gun out to 200 yards, if the stock fits well (the barrel and action of the rifle, not the person), which seems to be a common problem for accuracy.

It all depends on how much you wish to spend, and how long a range you are interested in shooting at.

For about three times the price you can get a .223 savage bolt action that is three times as accurate out of the box.

Are you already a huntress, or just considering it?

We could start a separate thread on this and I estimate you would have a hundred posts in two hours. It is just an observable thing about freerepublic and gun questions.

36 posted on 12/04/2004 5:59:45 PM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain
"It all depends on how much you wish to spend, and how long a range you are interested in shooting at."

Kind of off topic: I'll be as brief as possible.

I had a 30-06 Ruger w/ scope that I had bought circa 1978.

After a house fire the contractor stored all of our belongings.

They returned a rifle to me, in MY case, that is a .243 w/ scope and I think it is a Savage. I had stopped hunting prior to the house fire but after 9/11 I started looking at refreshing my shooting skills.

The statute of limitations has expired so that I can't go back to the contractor and complain about his returning the wrong weapon to me.

In the meantime I have become out of touch w/ firearms.

What is a .243 good for other than varmints?

71 posted on 12/05/2004 8:30:31 AM PST by El Gran Salseron (My wife just won the "Inmate of the Month" Award! :-))
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To: marktwain

I'm a beginner at hunting...B/F knows all about the Savages
I wasn't looking to spend that much right now....I'm still a full time student (broke all the time)


73 posted on 12/05/2004 9:02:07 AM PST by ReeWalker (At the core of modern liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are,)
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