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<blockquote data-quote="Frog4aday" data-source="post: 1660249" data-attributes="member: 9308"><p>The .20 ga advice is sound. If you can get it in a Rem 1100, that helps a lot, too. Softer recoil. Ideally, we'd use a .410 of some kind for the kids, but unless you reload the shells, they are two to three times the price of the 20 ga shells and that's just ridiculous. I was fortunate to be a skeet shooter (already set up to reload .410), so I got a second stock for my Fausti O/U in .410, cut it down to fit my son, and got him started shooting clays on the ground to see the gun wouldn't hurt him, then we shot some skeet and he really enjoyed that (especially station #7! Should have just shot the first 25 shells right there.)</p><p></p><p>I also started him off with a Ruger 77/22 in .22LR...only to discover when he went to shoulder it, he was putting it up to his LEFT SIDE. He writes and uses scissors with his right hand; never suspected he'd be a 'lefty' when it came to shooting. He figured it out anyway. Kids are great that way. Once we built him a Ruger 10/22 together (using the Brownells BRN-22 receiver) he was all about shooting again! He said the semi-auto brought the fun back to our range outings. I have to agree with him. Can't go wrong starting ANYONE off with the .22 LR. You can get ammo for $0.03 a round (again) which has been nice. Stock up!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frog4aday, post: 1660249, member: 9308"] The .20 ga advice is sound. If you can get it in a Rem 1100, that helps a lot, too. Softer recoil. Ideally, we'd use a .410 of some kind for the kids, but unless you reload the shells, they are two to three times the price of the 20 ga shells and that's just ridiculous. I was fortunate to be a skeet shooter (already set up to reload .410), so I got a second stock for my Fausti O/U in .410, cut it down to fit my son, and got him started shooting clays on the ground to see the gun wouldn't hurt him, then we shot some skeet and he really enjoyed that (especially station #7! Should have just shot the first 25 shells right there.) I also started him off with a Ruger 77/22 in .22LR...only to discover when he went to shoulder it, he was putting it up to his LEFT SIDE. He writes and uses scissors with his right hand; never suspected he'd be a 'lefty' when it came to shooting. He figured it out anyway. Kids are great that way. Once we built him a Ruger 10/22 together (using the Brownells BRN-22 receiver) he was all about shooting again! He said the semi-auto brought the fun back to our range outings. I have to agree with him. Can't go wrong starting ANYONE off with the .22 LR. You can get ammo for $0.03 a round (again) which has been nice. Stock up! [/QUOTE]
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