by niceshot » 26 Jun 2023, 1:49 pm
That's not an easy task to name five rifles for Australian conditions. There are a lot of variables. A new shooter can't handle the recoil of a .300win mag or .30-06,Wether male or female. What do you shoot at? Game targets or both no rifle is an alrounder. Where you live is another factor Tasmania has no buffalo, Western Australia has very few deer. Get the idea I'm looking at.
Everyone needs a 22lr budget rifles are good so are top end depends on your wallet. A .223rem mines a Weatherby, mid size game a .243win would be ok if you don't mind long actions a .25-06 is better. Medium to larger game, .270win or .308win is fine. For big game a .300win mag is no slouche, albeit expensive to feed. my choices are for economic reasons. 22lr, 223,243,308 and 300win mag. My rifle is a Howa 1100 22lr the others are all Weatherby Vangaurd s2 all are affordable and good but you have to have good glass and mounts. Weatherby Vangaurd s2 is between $11-1300 $7-800 for a decent scope $150 for mounts. The Howa was $1050 With a zerotech scope and mounts supplied. So you have to do the maths. plus $300 to add each to your license, in W.A. So $2500 ×4= 10k plus $1350 is $11350. That's budget buying Tripple that at least if you go top end. Sako, Anschutz etc. Don't buy s/h unless you can check it out and shoot it. You can get bitten hard. it my be an ok rifle but its past isn't known. Could have done anything, and wanted by authorities as the worst case. hope this helps. Why have old un serviceable rifles if you can only have five?