Let’s Go Hunt 110 – Kowabunga It Is? – Rifles for the Youngin’s!

Intro Mike – Welcome back to another episode of Let’s Go Hunt! – Now no longer legally required to use your preferred pronouns: 

Dave Packard, free from the gripsof on-call

Sam Alexander, soon to make his directorial debut with the upcoming films: Kill Mike Vol. 1 and 2

Vince H, shotgun cheater

And squirting the salt away with a high pressure hose, I’m 

Mike Gonçalves, 

Around the Campire:

A listener question and changes coming to Colorado draw system…maybe…if we get to it 

Eventual Ad Slot

Personal Gear Chat and Updates:

Mike 

• Let’s talk about an LEO encounter while hunting.
  CRS 33-6-101 Must provide hunting license to any peace officer upon request

Dave

• spotlight

Sam  

• I made cheese
• Getting in shape for hunting season and springtime shenanigans.
• Runs.
• Basic white girl lunches.
• Posca.
• Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese.

Vince

• Got out and did some shooting with the boy. 22’s and shotguns
• Finally shot the double barrel with the Gideon Granite on it

• News and World Events

• Colorado has new wolves, as well as the release of the Copper Creek Pack which was corralled last year for depredation and survival reasons. 
• Brings the total up to 29 in the state of Colorado. 
• Time will tell what they all get up to.
• Colorado has new regs for the big game draw, will cover more in depth in upcoming shows as info comes out

Spotlighting With Dave: 

The Odd Shotgun Gauges

https://www.sportsmans.com/shotgun-gauge-size-chart#:~:text=20%20Gauge-,X,X

What the Rut is going on here?

or

The Otter Creek Labs Polonium 30. What’s it good for?

Reviews:

Operation Shameless Bribery

Gideon Optics affiliate coupon code: MOIST

Camorado affiliate code: LETSGOHUNT

Outro – Dave

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Let’s Go Hunt Archives – Firearms Radio Network

!Listener Question!

TacticalGimli writes: Coming to the experts with a question. I have two daughters aged 13 and 10 and a son aged 2 (he’s still got a few more years before this question really applies to him) my girls are both super small for their ages. They are both ready to start taking a gun of their own into the woods for deer season and I need help picking out what gun and in what caliber to go with. Some of the details, we hunt public ground in southern Illinois, so it has to be either a shotgun with slugs, muzzleloader, or straight wall center fire rifle. If it is a centerfire rifle it has to either be a single shot or a bolt action with a magazine shelf/ solid mag, no rounds ca+n fit into a magazine. 

gun choice- not really considering shotgun or muzzleloader. You can try to change my mind. So with a straight wall….do I go Single shot so it’s lighter for them to carry and easier on my wallet so I get get a better optic for them, but then that’s all it will ever be, just a single shot rifle. Or go bolt action, more options to choose from, but it would be harder to reload (remember they will have to open the bolt, twist the gun, throw in a new round, and then close the bolt) but it can be used later in life by them for any kind of other hunting making more options for them as they grow. 

So the caliber debate- go 350 legend for the lighter recoil so they actually like shooting their gun, or on the flip side do I go 450 bushmaster for more power and less of a chance the deer runs far (remember we hunt public so I want to avoid messing up someone else’s hunt) I hunt with a 450 bushmaster myself, so I already have tons of ammo and both of them have shot mine. 

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to use this question on the podcast if you want. Thanks.