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Offline bubby

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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2016, 01:13:52 pm »
sleek i grew up shooting bolt action so that is my preference although a single shot is a good option mine is an older savage but like Clint said you can get a good deal on a remington or a Winchester
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Offline gifford

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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2016, 02:56:07 pm »
The options are almost limitless, if the budget is a prime consideration, go with a 20 gauge shotgun. It seems that single shot 20 gauge shotguns are pretty high these days but he'll never outgrow it. He likely wants a repeater, I know I did at that age. My first shotgun was a 15.00 (1960) single shot 12 gauge. From there to a double bbl 20 gauge and then 12 gauge pump. Still have them.

Look for youth model single shots, you can often get a new stock and bolt it on when he outgrows the youth model.
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #17 on: October 08, 2016, 10:24:04 pm »
My wife and daughter shoots a 44 mag handy rifle. It kicks very little and shoots good.
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2016, 06:52:39 am »
243 single shot, I think fro American arms was Beau's first rifle, I cut the stock and added a good soft butt plate and he took several deer with it, it shot like a 22 only louder. ;)Several of the kid at the Club have used it over the years and always done a good job if they put the shot where they are suppose to. :) You can also change barrels very easy to most anything you want. I got a 20 gauge barrel for it also.
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2016, 08:45:58 am »
.243 for my 11 year old.  Accurate, not a lot of recoil.  Easy to shoot.
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #20 on: October 10, 2016, 08:52:24 am »
Gotta admit if your state allows it for deer .243 very versatile rifle. Not real fur friendly but really none of them are. Big enough for large game too and a common round. I like Pappy's choice
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #21 on: October 10, 2016, 11:26:18 am »
If you want to make a shooter out of him there is no better way than a single shot 20 gauge. That is what I started out with, You get good when you know you have to make that shot count!
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #22 on: October 11, 2016, 05:40:12 pm »
Im torn between a 30 30 lever and the single shot 243 with interchangeable barrels.
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #23 on: October 11, 2016, 06:19:36 pm »
2 Really good choices. I don't think you can go wrong with either.
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #24 on: October 11, 2016, 06:32:49 pm »
My young grand kids hunt with 223's.  The youngest being 7 years old. One is a bolt action and the other is a Ruger #3 single shot. I reload their shells and they have killed everything they have hit with those guns.  I also have a 6MM which is close to a 243 or as Remington called it a 244. That gun has been used by the older grandson.  None of the guns I mentioned will kick the snot out of your son and he will enjoy shooting them.  Some of the guns mentioned above are a little stout for a young kid to use and shoot.  He gets kissed with the scope and he will or may get a little gun shy. Hard to cure trigger jerking.
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #25 on: October 11, 2016, 07:17:53 pm »
Sleek the .243 doesn't kick as much as a .30 30
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #26 on: October 11, 2016, 08:23:42 pm »
nother plug for the 243.. Great gun.. I bought the browning blr ""for the kid '' When he started hunting.. Had to be 14 to hunt with a rifle in Alberta back then.. My freinds kids used that gun.. Taken many a first critter... Good freinds Dad used it on his last hunt..
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #27 on: October 11, 2016, 10:05:58 pm »
Sleek I bought Lucy a savage axis 243 she loves it. I think mossberg makes a youth 243 that comes with extra butt pieces so you can add them as they grow I bought the kids a 20ga like that.
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Re: Whats a good deer gun for a 11 year old.
« Reply #28 on: October 12, 2016, 11:03:53 am »
I don't think my dad wasn't much for "growing into your gun" because I went straight from a single shot .410 to a Remington 30-06 when I was that age.

Felt like I was firing an anti-tank rifle, and probably explains why I passed up so many deer in my early hunting years : )
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Offline Bob W.

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« Reply #29 on: October 12, 2016, 11:24:43 am »
My Son just turned 13 and I bought him a Ruger American .243 with a Nikon Prostaff 3x9. It took 10 Rds to dial it in. Awesome setup!
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