What a great first post.
I know of a guy that bought one of the Howa's in 243 for his son and liked it so much he kept it for himself.
Another guy bought one of the Weatherby Compacts(two stocks come with it and has a 20 inch barrel) in .308 for his small frame son equipped with managed recoil ammo.
This kid is deadly with that rifle!!
On the topic of that Bushnell Trophy scope.
My brothers wife bought one three years ago for him and i warned him repeatedly about using a cheap Asian scope on his only hunting rifle but so far his 30-06 has not croaked it yet.
He liked his so much he ordered one and put it on his old Mossberg 800 in 243 as a back up deer rifle.
Oh yea..Welcome.
