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<blockquote data-quote="BenelliHunter" data-source="post: 2940757" data-attributes="member: 116125"><p>My boys started hunting one at 4 and one at 6. My oldest was by far smaller at the same age as his younger brother. Now they are 5 and 10 (but only about a pound apart. </p><p></p><p>I made MANY mistakes with my 10 year old and trying to get him a gun he could shoot. Manufactures do a really poor job of building guns for kids. I built a 6.5 Creedmore because it has no real recoil to me- it blacked his eye fist shot- but he did hit the bullseye! However that is the last time he ever wanted to shoot it. When running the numbers I figured out that 13.6 foot pounds to me was crushing to a 46lb kid. </p><p></p><p>Then I built a 6cm SBR. It sits in a titanium chassis and wears a 12.5" barrel so that suppressed it is still less than 20". He limited out when he was 8 with that rifle. Two of the bucks he killed were 170 yards and 272 yards. So…..I built his 3 year old brother a matching SBR and put a 14" barrel on it to get a bit more speed. This was the first year for my 5 year old and he shot my 14 point shooter buck at 150 yards with it. We shoot the Hornady 87 grain Vmax and no matter what anyone says- on VA whitetail nothing else is needed. Those two guns have killed more than 20 deer- all with one shot kills. </p><p></p><p>6.5 CM = 13.6 lbs recoil</p><p>6 CM 6.9 lbs recoil</p><p></p><p>Massive difference</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BenelliHunter, post: 2940757, member: 116125"] My boys started hunting one at 4 and one at 6. My oldest was by far smaller at the same age as his younger brother. Now they are 5 and 10 (but only about a pound apart. I made MANY mistakes with my 10 year old and trying to get him a gun he could shoot. Manufactures do a really poor job of building guns for kids. I built a 6.5 Creedmore because it has no real recoil to me- it blacked his eye fist shot- but he did hit the bullseye! However that is the last time he ever wanted to shoot it. When running the numbers I figured out that 13.6 foot pounds to me was crushing to a 46lb kid. Then I built a 6cm SBR. It sits in a titanium chassis and wears a 12.5” barrel so that suppressed it is still less than 20”. He limited out when he was 8 with that rifle. Two of the bucks he killed were 170 yards and 272 yards. So…..I built his 3 year old brother a matching SBR and put a 14” barrel on it to get a bit more speed. This was the first year for my 5 year old and he shot my 14 point shooter buck at 150 yards with it. We shoot the Hornady 87 grain Vmax and no matter what anyone says- on VA whitetail nothing else is needed. Those two guns have killed more than 20 deer- all with one shot kills. 6.5 CM = 13.6 lbs recoil 6 CM 6.9 lbs recoil Massive difference [/QUOTE]
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