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Travis I haven't been able to post for several days. When I go to this website it immediately redirects to another one but it finally stopped.

I don't exactly understand your question but after reading my post believe it could have been worded better. Growing up we didn't have scopes on any of our family rifles. They also weren't high end. The arsenal included an unsporterized SMLE .303 and 1903 A3, and a single shot bolt action .22. Don't remember who made the .22 but do remember it seemed to be very heavy. My family raised commercial cattle and hunting was an after thought to everyone but me. I bought a 700 ADL .270 when I was 13 in 1972 with my calf money. Never thought to scope it, wasn't familiar with them. Went off to college and of course the people I hung out with hunted and I was exposed to scopes. In 1981 when I graduated the first thing I did was buy a Weaver 4X with graduation gift money and life was all of the sudden much better. I scoped all the subsequent rifles I owned. When my now adult children started shooting I bought Model 60's for them and didn't scope them. My reasoning which had no scientific basis was because my impression was the people I knew that learned how to shoot with iron sights where better shots as a rule than people that learned with optics. I'd also read that somewhere. So that's what we did. I eventually put scopes on them and then upgraded the scopes a few years ago.

So that is the old way of doing things which I don't think is always the best. Because I'd always heard you should start a kid out on a pump or single shot shotgun. I started out on an ancient Montgomery Wards 16 gauge SxS. Started child number one on a Mossberg Bantam he didn't care for the recoil and it was not a fun experience. When his older sister wanted to start dove hunting I thought about it and remembered the heavy recoil of my 16 gauge and her brothers experience so I got her a youth semi-auto and it went much better. I was told by many people it was a bad idea(old fashioned way of thinking) but put a longer plug in to make it a single shot and decided it was much better than the old custom.

If this doesn't answer your question please let me know.

Thanks for the Tasco red-dot recommendation. It is exactly what the doctor ordered for the little-guy!

My daughter's setup. Old vari-x III that was laying around. She loves it. Started shooting it when she was 4. The Tapco stock was the best $105 I've spent in a long time.

I like the idea of a red dot. If not, a low magnification scope with LOTS of eye relief is the route to take. Take a look yourself and see if it's easy to get behind. Small, inexperienced kids struggle with short eye relief scopes that have an eye box that's hard to settle into.

"put the dot on the can, pull the trigger" kids love it. Easy and very forgiving.

decided to go a different route. I bought a cricket a year or so ago and decided this was best to start her with. Lop is 10 1/2 after a little trimming.

Thought it turned out pretty good after the suggested red dot was installed

Re Bushnell AR Optics Drop Zone-22 BDC Rimfire 2-7x32 with parallax adjustable down to 10 yards:

I phoned Bushnell last week asking about this specific scope and their tech guy told me that the parallax adjusts down to 20 yards. On the Bushnell web site this specific scope is not listed and the closest offering, an AR 2-7x32, has fixed parallax. Wonder if the 10 yard parallax is being discontinued and the ones on Amazon are what remains in stock?

I prefer a scope with mil-dots for my shooting but I put an Ultra-Dot optic on mine for youngsters plinking and it's been a good choice.

Phoned Bushnell again and talked to a tech specialist. He got back to me by e-mail the next day and wrote:

The AR92732 model does have a side parallax dial that starts at 10 yards.

Yeah, the little-guy loves the red-dot...



But he likes the chainsaw-shotgun combo better.....