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Rifle build for daughter
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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2411882" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>It looks to me that you are trying to waste a lot of money. Building anything for an 8 year old that has no idea about safe gun handling. I would recommend enrolling her in a Hunter Safety course in your local area, let the professional instructors teach her the proper way to handle a firearm safely and introduce her to all different firearm actions and how to hunt safely. Now come the hard part, Drop her off at the class and drive away. My biggest pet peeve when teaching Hunter Safety is having a parent watching every step taken which only serves to intimidate the child, even worse when the parent tries to butt in. All firearms training needs to start with a .22 rifle. A small single shot .22 like the Savage Rascal Target XP. It's only $329 which will be half the price you will spend on a barrel for your home made rifle. Teach her all about safety and the basics of shooting. Start at 50 feet and work her out to 100 yards shooting until she shoots 1 MOA. Once she masters that it's time for her to move up. Again I would recommend an out of the box firearm in a hunting cartridge. A good hunting gun for her would be again a Savage Axis XP compact in Muddy Girl Camo and in .243. Light recoil, a round that is deadly on deer with relatively inexpensive ammo. It's a good round for hunting out to 200 + Yards, and I know some people that used the .243 for 1000 yard competition where it did surprisingly well, winning matches at that range. As she grows instead of getting her a new rifle, simply buy a new stock if needed. Many women do better with compact rifles due to their more diminutive sizes. I have been teaching Hunter Safety as well as NRA Basic courses since the mid 70's. Start the new shooter out right, let them learn the rights way to shoot in all positions and introduce them into hunting when they are ready, <strong>not when you are ready.</strong> If done correctly your little girl will enjoy shooting and hunting for the rest of her life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2411882, member: 118816"] It looks to me that you are trying to waste a lot of money. Building anything for an 8 year old that has no idea about safe gun handling. I would recommend enrolling her in a Hunter Safety course in your local area, let the professional instructors teach her the proper way to handle a firearm safely and introduce her to all different firearm actions and how to hunt safely. Now come the hard part, Drop her off at the class and drive away. My biggest pet peeve when teaching Hunter Safety is having a parent watching every step taken which only serves to intimidate the child, even worse when the parent tries to butt in. All firearms training needs to start with a .22 rifle. A small single shot .22 like the Savage Rascal Target XP. It's only $329 which will be half the price you will spend on a barrel for your home made rifle. Teach her all about safety and the basics of shooting. Start at 50 feet and work her out to 100 yards shooting until she shoots 1 MOA. Once she masters that it's time for her to move up. Again I would recommend an out of the box firearm in a hunting cartridge. A good hunting gun for her would be again a Savage Axis XP compact in Muddy Girl Camo and in .243. Light recoil, a round that is deadly on deer with relatively inexpensive ammo. It's a good round for hunting out to 200 + Yards, and I know some people that used the .243 for 1000 yard competition where it did surprisingly well, winning matches at that range. As she grows instead of getting her a new rifle, simply buy a new stock if needed. Many women do better with compact rifles due to their more diminutive sizes. I have been teaching Hunter Safety as well as NRA Basic courses since the mid 70's. Start the new shooter out right, let them learn the rights way to shoot in all positions and introduce them into hunting when they are ready, [B]not when you are ready.[/B] If done correctly your little girl will enjoy shooting and hunting for the rest of her life. [/QUOTE]
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