Alpha,
I have a seven year old boy so I have been where you are. He started out shooting a .22. I then bought him a .410 and for a while he was scared to shoot it. He finally got over that and now shoots it like a champ. He also shoots a .223 really well. I bought my daughter a youth model .223 and he shot that really well once he used to it. I can see a definite diffence in his ability to accuratley shoot the .223 versus the 7mm-08 we have.
Gerald makes a good point, you can buy reduced recoil ammo for the 7mm-08 from Remington. My brother has used that with his daugter and she has dropped several deer in her tracks with that load. Hornady makes a reduced load for the .243 now, it's a 90 grain version.
If you are going to buy them a 20 guage buy a semi automatic for reduced recoil. There is a model out there called a SA-20 that is used by several brands - I know Mossberg uses it and by all accounts it's a reliable gun. I don't know if that is the same model that Tristar uses but it sounds like it.
By the way, my daughter dropped a deer in it's tracks with her .223 so no problems there.
I was watching my boy shoot his .223 the other day and he was jerking the trigger. I came to realize that the trigger pull was so stiff he can to yank with his little fingers to get it to fire. We immediately corrected this by having him insert his fingers deeper onto the trigger so that he was pulling the trigger with middle of his finger instead of the tip.
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