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Good youth deer rifle for 1st hunt.
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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 742787" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>I gotta be honest, I was all in favor of .243 until I got an NEF breakover youth model - the kick was easily as bad as my .308 (youth model had no weight and not nearly as much as a Butt pad with the shortened stock - but still...).</p><p></p><p>I'd rather just get a .308 if I had my choice of calibers that they can grow into - not much of anything you can't shoot in Oklahoma with a .308 (or some of the surrounding states for that matter).</p><p></p><p>There's nothing wrong with a .223 if you're not in heavy brush when hunting - and if you are, I wouldn't go with anything smaller than a .308 anyways.</p><p></p><p>I'm always cautious about giving my kids a long-action higher recoil rifle to shoot (especially with a scope), but my boys are 8 and 9 (they're big for their age, but that's a lot of recoil for a younger kid - or older kid who is smaller).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 742787, member: 229"] I gotta be honest, I was all in favor of .243 until I got an NEF breakover youth model - the kick was easily as bad as my .308 (youth model had no weight and not nearly as much as a Butt pad with the shortened stock - but still...). I'd rather just get a .308 if I had my choice of calibers that they can grow into - not much of anything you can't shoot in Oklahoma with a .308 (or some of the surrounding states for that matter). There's nothing wrong with a .223 if you're not in heavy brush when hunting - and if you are, I wouldn't go with anything smaller than a .308 anyways. I'm always cautious about giving my kids a long-action higher recoil rifle to shoot (especially with a scope), but my boys are 8 and 9 (they're big for their age, but that's a lot of recoil for a younger kid - or older kid who is smaller). [/QUOTE]
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