My son was a smallish boy growing up. I took a Tikka T3, trimmed the stock, stuffed plastic sacks in the stock's butt, put a Conquest 3-9x on it, and downloaded 120 BT's to 2700fps.
Plastic bags? Who does that?
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I assume he put weight in the bags. I've added weight to stocks to reduce recoil, and it is effective.