My son is 9 years old and big for his age weighing in roughly at 110 lbs and standing roughly 4' 5" tall.
I welcome your thoughts, suggestions and especially first hand experience in this arena.
At that age and size, I would think anything up to and including a 7mm-08 would be fine. Just make sure the rifle fits the child well. My daughter started at 8 years old with a cut down Model Seven .243 and 80 gr TTSX and she only weighed 47 lbs. She has killed 8 deer in 3 seasons and she has no idea that the rifle has recoil because she has never shot it with full power rounds at anything other than deer...... We use reduced recoil handloads for practice.
