No one mentioned it yet that I saw....
Just FYI... Legacy Sports offers Howas with two stocks...as a package...
one with a shorter length of pull for when the youth is younger...
and then one of regular length of pull for when they get older...
IIRC they had 20 inch barrels... Dont' recall if they have it available in Lefties tho...
another FYI, contact ShortactionSmoker from Whittaker Guns, who is a forum member and a great person to deal with....a Howa Mini Action, in say a 6.5 Grendal might be the ticket or a 7.62 x 39.
Access to a handloader, if you don't do so yourself, can load that 7/08 to something similar in velocity and bullet weight to the above two cartridges....of course some guys around here have a problem with that concept......
There is a young black boy in Sierra's Number 5 load manual, with a picture of a doe he took with his 7/08, and it was loaded below Remington's Managed Recoil specs.. His dad use to be a campfire member, under the name of Slim....He was a soldier IIRC,, but I am familiar with the load he used to take that deer... the following season, he was much bigger and could handle a regular 7/08 load.
Marvin Jr's Pic and deer from Sierra's Web site.
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