Montigny_La_palisse said:
I've got £500 burning a hole in my pocket for my first rifle, I've been looking at a Sako Quad synthetic. Any tips/ reccomendations? Paper punching and Bunny slotting will be the standard.
Depends what you'll do most of; you can get a pretty decent second-hand rifle for £500. It also depends what kind of paper-punching you're talking about.
The problem is that decent paper-punching 0.22 rifles have a big heavy barrel, and weigh five or six kilos. Bunny slotters have slimmer, sportier barrels, and weigh less.
You'll find a bunny slotter frustrating if you take it to a (paper) smallbore target competition - it's unlikely to group well enough to be competitive for the more deliberate events, but you could use it in "lightweight sporting rifle" competitions.
You'll not want to take a target rifle bunny slotting... they aren't really designed for the great outdoors (i.e. you'll find that the trigger runs at about 150g of pressure or so).