Should a rifle designed for women be more than the same action in a plastic pink stock? Savage obviously thinks so. Quality hardwood stock, Accu-trigger and sporter profile barrel added up to a very handy and well balanced rifle. In the dry fire practice picture below, you can see that the raised comb provides a much better cheek weld for the diminutive shooter than the conventional straight stock would have.
The first Lady Hunter I had was chambered in .243Win and provided a useful punch with very light recoil. This rifle is chambered in .223Rem and ought to kick even less. The 15 year old girl in this photo normally shoots left-handed, so her right-handed form isn’t perfect…but she still hits small targets are ridiculously long ranges, so I shouldn’t complain about the technique.
The only down side I would to this rifle is that the magazine is a single feed design, so has to be removed for re-loading. On the plus side, it is easily removable and another magazine can be swapped into place very quickly. Given that it is a hunting rifle and not a line infantry gun, I shouldn’t consider that a disadvantage, but old habits die hard.
“The 15 year old girl in this photo normally shoots left-handed, so her right-handed form isn’t perfect…but she still hits small targets are ridiculously long ranges, so I shouldn’t complain about the technique.”
What’s the matter, Oleg? She shoot better than you do? Quite the attractive rifle, I will have to pass that on to a friend of mine.
She does shoot better than I do. Not like that’s a surprise.
“Shoot like a girl, if you’re good enough.”
Reminds me of a bumper sticker “yes, I run like a girl. Try to keep up”.
There was supposed to be a immediately after the question… seems that your comment software removed it, I was trying to joke a bit.
Bugger. “there was supposed to be a grin…”