I’m amazed by them. My 7 year old daughter can shoot and shoot a mid weight(howa) 6 creedmoor suppressed. We spend much more time with a 223 but she has no problem with the 6mm. Obviously it’s not a recoil monster but to a little kid it would have a little pop without the suppressor. I plan to teach my kids what recoil is rather than going back and correcting mistakes by introducing it too early. Like happened with me and every single honest friend I have. Most of it was our fault wanting to shoot the bigger guns to show we were big boys but all of us ended up with a flinch that needed sorting out.