The vast majority of our hunting is done with drives after opening weekend. Which can be brutal. We take turns posting but running through swamps, woods and pucker brush like a hound really is a workout. One of.the guys in our party.carries a BSA 7rm with a 20.5" barrel the older I get the more I "Get it". That little cannon has taken more long 400yds and beyond deer and brush wolfs then I can keep count of.

There in lays my arguement for heavy hot rounds vs smaller high bc bullets. I just bought 200 175gr cor lokts for $32. I would pay 2 times that for anything in a 6.5 and first little branch or cattail it hits its.going go off.target long before the beefier bullets. Which will deform substantially and.stay on target longer.

Flame on. But real world hunting results are hard to ignore. LRH is of.course much more like paper chasing and.high bc bullets like hunting vld's are world apart from sp's, ab's.

We always post people with 270's 308's where shots will be @100--150yds max. Usually youngest in our party.
So when the choice was mine I went with sporter barreled 308's for my daughter's @14 yrs old. The recoils always been just enough to keep them focused. They learned quickly and frequently practice with sessions of 30 rounds each.