Handloaders can get it done with almost anything. In factory I like the Grendel. My sons and grandson live in VA, where the minimum caliber is .23, effectively .24 since there are no .23s out that AFIK. When I was looking for a rifle for my then 9 year-old grandson, I couldn’t find a 6.5 G youth rifle, so he got a 7.62x39 and has killed 3 with it with no issues. However the good ammo for it has gotten difficult to find. They did find one box of the SSTs today, the first in a long time.
