antco
Ultimate Member
Looking for ideas here. Please just throw anything out there. I don't spend much time reading about rifles anymore, so there's probably something new and cool that I'm not aware of.
I have very fond memories of my first .22. Although that gun is long since gone, I still have a fondness for .22's and love to build and shoot them still to this day. I have a couple of CZ 452's and a pile of 10/22's to take up this task.
Onto the point of this post; I have two little girls, aged 3.5 and 1.5 at the moment, and it's time to develop some rifles for when they're older. I will be having these built by Mike R. at Tactical Operations, and the timetable I've given him is prior to him retiring in 5 years. These rifles will stay with me for a long time, and likely handed down to my daughters kids in some fashion at some point in 35+ years unless either one of them really takes up shooting once they're grown and settled. These will be family heirlooms of sorts, but they're going to be some serious machines.
I had been thinking about identical rifles, bolt action, .22's or .17HMR's, with external suppressors. Something Mike said to me last week now has me thinking about one .22 and one .17 and I now can't decide if they should both be bolt, or make the .22 semiauto and the .17 bolt.
So, what does the collective braintrust of MDS have? Throw some ideas out on the table for good guns suitable for beginner shooters. This is going to be expensive, so I'd like to nail it on the first try.
I have very fond memories of my first .22. Although that gun is long since gone, I still have a fondness for .22's and love to build and shoot them still to this day. I have a couple of CZ 452's and a pile of 10/22's to take up this task.
Onto the point of this post; I have two little girls, aged 3.5 and 1.5 at the moment, and it's time to develop some rifles for when they're older. I will be having these built by Mike R. at Tactical Operations, and the timetable I've given him is prior to him retiring in 5 years. These rifles will stay with me for a long time, and likely handed down to my daughters kids in some fashion at some point in 35+ years unless either one of them really takes up shooting once they're grown and settled. These will be family heirlooms of sorts, but they're going to be some serious machines.
I had been thinking about identical rifles, bolt action, .22's or .17HMR's, with external suppressors. Something Mike said to me last week now has me thinking about one .22 and one .17 and I now can't decide if they should both be bolt, or make the .22 semiauto and the .17 bolt.
So, what does the collective braintrust of MDS have? Throw some ideas out on the table for good guns suitable for beginner shooters. This is going to be expensive, so I'd like to nail it on the first try.
