Youth gun recommendation

[mr crab]

I highly recommend the savage youth model bolt action rifle. I bought 2 in .243 for my daughters. The accutrigger is the best tool on the market for teaching young shooters to squeeze and not jerk the trigger. With a lot of range time my 12 y/o and 10 y/o girls have both dropped deer and hogs at 200yds. I also highly recommend barnes tipped tsx bullets. We started out shooting soft point lead bullets, but, in.243, the exit wounds were not large enough to track blood from hogs that were hit perfectly. The barnes bullets in .243 blow holes comparable the soft points out of my.270. Just gotta find somebody to load em for you. The tipped tsx's are not available as a ready to shoot cartridge.

[Duck Butter]

7mm-08 is a sweet sweet rifle, very little kick and accurate as can be. I got my wife one a few years back and even bought myself one I liked it so much.

.243 is a good round too


I had a 20 gauge crack barrel for my first shotgun and it kicked like a mule, be careful going that route