Sizing Your Rifle

Video Transcript

"When you're choosing or sizing a rifle the things you need to take into consideration is what you're hunting, what you're interested in, how big of a person you are, the length of the stock. For example if you're a very large person or a tall person with a long reach a longer stock is going to be more comfortable for you. If you're really short and small a shorter stock is going to be comfortable for you because of the way it fits right onto your cheek right there and the amount of or the distance between a scope and your eye and the way your cheek even rests on the, rests on the stock of the gun. Other things to consider are how; you know how big of a gun do you want to hunt with. I don't mean size of the gun, but size of the cartridge. If you're hunting nothing but antelope or a small deer or deer anyway in that consideration, or in that aspect, a large gun, a heavy powered rifle such as a 7mm magnum really isn't very necessary. It's overly adequate I guess is what you might say. It'll do the job, no problem, but you can get away with using something like a 223 cartridge that has less kick and will take a deer down just the same. A larger; you know a larger gun such as this, a 308 or 338, is going to have larger knock down power for larger game. That's really all there is to it."