Which caliber

[Deltamud77]

No, don't customize that youth gun down the road. Save it for him so he can have some nostalgic hunts with it later in life like I did last year with my old deer rifle from childhood.

It's a full size gun and the customization will be a project for the two of us together. We will research it together, perform the upgrades in our capability together, etc. I think it will be fun and will have a continuity of many memories, not only from hunts, but also from building the gun together too. When I am dead and gone, hopefully he will be able to look at the gun with many different types of memories of us together.

[tazdog]

Thanks for everybody's option. I think I'm going with a 308 in either a youth model or the ruger compact. There seems to be more of a selection of ammo for the 308.

[hntrpat1]

What's wrong with a dirty 30.

[cwink]

A good read on caliber

http://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/ ... SOC&dom=fb

[Denduke]

Word of caution with kids and wives regarding deer rifles....
Got the wifey to shoot at a buck over 200 yards, she missed and said I was gonna have to buy her a new rifle cuz she over strained hers......you can't make this stuff up

[Deltaduk]

I got a .243 you can borrow and shoot. Winchester ballistic silvertips will lay them down. You have seen what Braedon killed with the same gun. Got 2 of them. Come get one of them and try it out.


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[three11]

My 10 year old.son is shooting the Remington model 7 .243 that I shot when I was a kid. It is a tack driver and was my truck gun when I was farming. When he's old enough to graduate to a bigger gun...I'm taking it back!

[duramax]

Dont let him shoot it at anything but a deer and his adrenaline will be pumping so hard he could put a sherman tank on his shoulder and not feel it.

I only let my kids shoot a 22 at a target when they were young.....my son was shooting a 7 mag when he was 7

I agree almost entirely. I don't know if a 7mm is suitable for all 7 year olds, but the principle is correct. My kids are still too young, but when I was about to take my now wife deer hunting for her first time, she had no rifle experience. She is small and was recoil shy. So I got her very competent with a 22 (she was a dead eye at 50 yards). The .22 I had her shoot is a bolt action and has a heavier wood stock and target barrel. It "feels" like a bigger gun than a typical plastic 10/22 or similar. So when she shot my .270 at her first deer, she certainly didn't notice the recoil.

That being said, the .270 wasn't too long of a stock. Making sure the stock fits the kid is extremely important.