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<blockquote data-quote="turkeyrun" data-source="post: 2406577" data-attributes="member: 27991"><p>Cricket is the way to go. Learn sight pic and control.</p><p></p><p>The Mossberg Youth 20 is a good choice. I started my son out on a 20 ga. 870. Not the youth or LW20, but the old school 870 20ga built on the 12 ga. frame, bought used at a gun show. Then, I bought an old 870 stock from a gunsmith and cut the stock short enough to add a heavy recoil pad and fit his length of pull. Next we cut the barrel to 23" and added choke tubes. I found a load recipe for a 28ga skeet load equivalent used in a 20 ga. AA hull. Results = a gun that fit him, had the weight to tame recoil, open choked to make hits easy on fixed targets and then skeet, gave him some success and a pleasant experience, load / recoil just slightly more than a .410, extra stock to the gun to grow with him. When duck season opened, he was used to shooting the shotgun with success, wearing heavy clothing and shooting 3" mags, he didn't even notice. He loved it. Actually used the shotgun until HIS son started wanting to hunt with us and we dug out the short stock and took him out. We now have a youth Mossberg, just because his 2nd son started hunting with us this year.</p><p></p><p>Rifle for deer, .243 is a good choice, a SKS would also be a good consideration for cheap rifle / cheap practice ammo.</p><p></p><p>Really no bad choices, as long as he is having FUN, safely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="turkeyrun, post: 2406577, member: 27991"] Cricket is the way to go. Learn sight pic and control. The Mossberg Youth 20 is a good choice. I started my son out on a 20 ga. 870. Not the youth or LW20, but the old school 870 20ga built on the 12 ga. frame, bought used at a gun show. Then, I bought an old 870 stock from a gunsmith and cut the stock short enough to add a heavy recoil pad and fit his length of pull. Next we cut the barrel to 23" and added choke tubes. I found a load recipe for a 28ga skeet load equivalent used in a 20 ga. AA hull. Results = a gun that fit him, had the weight to tame recoil, open choked to make hits easy on fixed targets and then skeet, gave him some success and a pleasant experience, load / recoil just slightly more than a .410, extra stock to the gun to grow with him. When duck season opened, he was used to shooting the shotgun with success, wearing heavy clothing and shooting 3" mags, he didn't even notice. He loved it. Actually used the shotgun until HIS son started wanting to hunt with us and we dug out the short stock and took him out. We now have a youth Mossberg, just because his 2nd son started hunting with us this year. Rifle for deer, .243 is a good choice, a SKS would also be a good consideration for cheap rifle / cheap practice ammo. Really no bad choices, as long as he is having FUN, safely. [/QUOTE]
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