When my grandson Trevor was about 4 yrs. old, I bought this rifle new for him. I put a synthetic stock on it, glass bedded the rifle and free floated the barrel.The rifle is a stainless steel, Ruger Hawkeye , 7X57mm , sporting a 3X-9X-50mm Leupold Vari X II scope in Ruger Rings. The rifle has a 2 lb. super clean crisp trigger. I thought about .243, .308 Win. , and another 3 or 4 other calibers but settled on the 7X57mm. The rifle " package " is about the size of a .243 but with about 2X better kill performance ( in my opinion ). With jacketed bullets , it will shoot 100 gr. Hp - 175 gr. RN bullets. Very versatile. I have about 10 - 12 nice bullet moulds in 7mm. I have a 50 cal. GI ammo can with about 15 boxes of premium 7mm jacketed bullets for him & 3 pairs of 7X57 dies. I can't think of anything else he'll need in the future.
This is the Thor , Ballisti-Cast , 7mm, 136 gr. with a nice hunting meplat on the nose. The meplat on the nose looks like it could cause feeding problems from the mag. box..........NOT SO ! !
This is the Thor , Ballisti-Cast , 7mm, 136 gr. with a nice hunting meplat on the nose. The meplat on the nose looks like it could cause feeding problems from the mag. box..........NOT SO ! !
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