sksshooter
Well-Known Member
My oldest daughter and my wife have both killed with 7mm-08s. My oldest has killed quite a few. My youngest doesnt get into hunting much but does shoot and handles the 7-08 well. I have an older marlin youth model and a savage axis2 compact. I prefer the savage hands down. Has removable mag and pretty decent trigger (accutrigger) the marlin is a blind mag and even though my daughter has been hunting for 6 years now and the last 2 on her own i still check to make sure she didnt rack another round in after ejecting her loaded round at the end of a hunt. 50% of the kills have been drt the others only ran a very short distance and were easy to track. Im shooting corelokts in one and winchester dear season in the other. When i have time to develop loads for them i plan to swap over to some noslers, hopefully both rifles like them.
I started both mine on .22 rifles with a scope before ever letting them shoot the bigger rounds. When they were able to consistantly group with the 22s we moved to the bigger stuff. Both of my daughters out shoot the majority of the men in our deer lease.
I started both mine on .22 rifles with a scope before ever letting them shoot the bigger rounds. When they were able to consistantly group with the 22s we moved to the bigger stuff. Both of my daughters out shoot the majority of the men in our deer lease.