starter rifles?

any that are reccomended? I would perfer bolt action .22

http://www.winchesterguns.com/prodinfo/catalog/detail.asp?cat_id=525&type_id=101&cat=018C


My first 22

cool thanks
i may have to spring for that

The ruger 10/22 is a great choice.

I started out with a JG G3 but I wouldn't recommend anything heavy or powerful for your first gun.

Tj.....were talking real steel here. Good try. Its Doug BTW

I'm not a gun owner, so this is mostly hear-and-repeat, but every single person I've talked to has said the Ruger 10/22 is a great beginner's gun.

I have used it, though, and it is great. The action is really smooth, it has a nice (but pretty small) kick, and the Dragunov-ish stocks that they sell for them are great.

The 10/22 that I may or may not have may or may not be the 40th anniversery which may or may not be modeled after the M1A1 Carbine.

Why a Russian rifle for a starter gun? well for one it was MY starter gun and I have nothing against it period. And before I start this let me make it VERY clear that I am talking about the Russian model SKS specifically not any Chinese type 56 or 57 or Yugo or anything like that I am talking specifically Russian now let me explain.

First the cost, I can sell you a rifle purchased from the soviet union itself for a little over 100 dollars, this might've increased a few dollars due to the Obama admin being in office but I'm sure it is'nt much,

The second and probably the most important of all is the cost of ammo, .22 ammo has been going through the roof for quite some time now its less than 5.56 but still sky rocketing and this is one of the reasons for the choice of the SKS which fires the 30 caliber, 7.62 x 39 corrosive or noncorrosive round. I bought a few days ago ex soviet ammo 600 rounds a box for a little over a 100 dollars a hell of a deal when compared to 600 rounds of 5.56 or 7mm.

Thirdly its so easy to use and so damn reliable that a child could use it (i was 9 when I first got it) and can be field stripped in less than 25 seconds even to an unexpericed handler of the rifle.

I have no problem with the choice of the 10/22 other than its a .22 and I believe when you train you should train with something a lil more realistic especially since most SKS's if not all of the Russian models have a bayonet and internal magazine well which you can replace with 30 and 50 round internal magazine wells to up the anty

I do not have an sks although i kinda want one. Of course being in New York i have to file down the bayonett attachment and GOD FORBID i have more then a 10 rd mag.

Eat My M4 wrote:

I do not have an sks although i kinda want one. Of course being in New York i have to file down the bayonett attachment and GOD FORBID i have more then a 10 rd mag.

LMAO omg you have no idea how crazy that is, you would have to get one that a gun smith had taken off the bayonet because on Russian models most ofthe time the bayonet is actually attached on there so a gun smith would have to take it off for you. And yea god forbid you to have anything cool on the gun at all period because remember kids a bayonet is much more dangerous than a 30 cal bullet