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New Rifle for 6 year old !!
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<blockquote data-quote="James Jones" data-source="post: 119946" data-attributes="member: 8843"><p>I'm in the process of building my sons first gun its gonna be an Encore in 22 long rifle to get started then a 22" barreled 250 Ackley. I'm making the stock myself it will start out at 9" LOP and have spacers to bring it to 12" at wich time I'll more him up to a custom bolt gun.</p><p></p><p>If your not going to be having him shoot some realy big critters or shoot at long range then I'd stick to the 7-08 as a max that is realy all the gun any deer hunter in this country needs out to 500yds. And if you don't reload then I'd probably opt for a 243 or 260.</p><p>the recoil to us seems like nothing but to sombody that well under 100lbs 10-15lbs of recoil can be uncomfortable.</p><p></p><p>Now their are several things that I have seen personaly from teaching dozens of kids how to shoot.</p><p>1) muzzel blast will scare then alot more than recoil</p><p>2) if they are scared or uncomfortable shooting a weapon then they will never shoot it well.</p><p>3) if the gun is to big then they will not be comfortable and that leads to poor shooting.</p><p></p><p>I personaly witnessed a 12yr old girl pass on a 150 class white tail (and thats a MONSTER down here) because she diden't like to shoot the gun she was using which was a 8lb ish 270 win that had a Vais brake on it. Only two people knew that she passed on that deer , me and her , I asked her about it in private later that afternoon when we met back at camp , she said that she was scare of the gun because it was so loud.</p><p></p><p>so in short I think that if your boy shoots the 7-08 well then leave him with that. a good 120gr Ballistic tip loaded to a modest velocity will serve him well on deer as with the reduced speed the bullet "blowing up" won't be a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jones, post: 119946, member: 8843"] I'm in the process of building my sons first gun its gonna be an Encore in 22 long rifle to get started then a 22" barreled 250 Ackley. I'm making the stock myself it will start out at 9" LOP and have spacers to bring it to 12" at wich time I'll more him up to a custom bolt gun. If your not going to be having him shoot some realy big critters or shoot at long range then I'd stick to the 7-08 as a max that is realy all the gun any deer hunter in this country needs out to 500yds. And if you don't reload then I'd probably opt for a 243 or 260. the recoil to us seems like nothing but to sombody that well under 100lbs 10-15lbs of recoil can be uncomfortable. Now their are several things that I have seen personaly from teaching dozens of kids how to shoot. 1) muzzel blast will scare then alot more than recoil 2) if they are scared or uncomfortable shooting a weapon then they will never shoot it well. 3) if the gun is to big then they will not be comfortable and that leads to poor shooting. I personaly witnessed a 12yr old girl pass on a 150 class white tail (and thats a MONSTER down here) because she diden't like to shoot the gun she was using which was a 8lb ish 270 win that had a Vais brake on it. Only two people knew that she passed on that deer , me and her , I asked her about it in private later that afternoon when we met back at camp , she said that she was scare of the gun because it was so loud. so in short I think that if your boy shoots the 7-08 well then leave him with that. a good 120gr Ballistic tip loaded to a modest velocity will serve him well on deer as with the reduced speed the bullet "blowing up" won't be a problem. [/QUOTE]
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