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My grandson is small for his age and my 10/22 is too heavy for him. The little chipmunk type rifle looks too much like a toy. Is there anything between that you would suggest. I have an extra 10/22 (3 yrs old, unfired) that will probably go for a trade.
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My son started a year older than that with a Henry Youth Model lever action. I like the exposed hammer so I could tell at a glance if it was cocked, and for a first "hunting" gun as well as plinker, it seems safer to me than a semi-auto. It was also inexpensive enough that I didn't care later when it got banged around on his ATV.
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Savage rascal has an 11in LOP and a rear peep sight, standard.
It's a single shot bolt.
Henry has a lever 22 youth model with a 13", but you can work on that if need be.
I wish I would have got either compared to the Rossi crap combo I did get.
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CZ Scout is a dandy first 22 if you can find one.
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bought a Zastava Remngton model five youth rifle for my grandson. 5 shot magazine, and a single shot follower.
16 inch barrel. amazing accuracy for a "cheap" gun.
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CZ Scout is a dandy first 22 if you can find one. bought a Zastava Remngton model five youth rifle for my grandson. 5 shot magazine, and a single shot follower.
16 inch barrel. amazing accuracy for a "cheap" gun. These would be my two choices. I bought my 8 yr old a Zastava "youth" .22 and even my 5 yr old daughter can shoot it pretty well.
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My grandson is small for his age and my 10/22 is too heavy for him. The little chipmunk type rifle looks too much like a toy. Is there anything between that you would suggest. I have an extra 10/22 (3 yrs old, unfired) that will probably go for a trade.
Thanks Jim A good bud got a Chipmunk for his grand daughter. He got me to work on the trigger, which was too hard for her to pull. IMHO, a piece of junk. Go with the Ruger or CZ. Handle them and check for weight, trigger pull, etc. DF
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Saw one of the Brownings - it is SMALL!!!!!!!! Cool rifle!
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Another vote for the Savage Rascal. I bought one for the kids, and it is great. The front sight is the weak point though. Worth replaceing or altering.
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Thanks guys
I just got back to this thread and find several viable suggestions.
I hung a soda can off the side of a big Pine today and the 8yr old sure riddled it with my old Daisey BB gun. The Daisey was a gift to me about 1946,47 and it still works fine appearing to have lost none of it's original power.
Of the make/model suggestions made to me I will be looking at the Savage first.
Deeply appreciated Jim
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CZ Scout is a dandy first 22 if you can find one. bought a Zastava Remngton model five youth rifle for my grandson. 5 shot magazine, and a single shot follower.
16 inch barrel. amazing accuracy for a "cheap" gun. These would be my two choices. I bought my 8 yr old a Zastava "youth" .22 and even my 5 yr old daughter can shoot it pretty well. Jim, Yes both are good choices, with a Huge edge going to the CZ Scout. BUT if your 10-22 is too heavy for him, both of these will be too heavy also. Being a rimfire junkie and having two kids... i tried several. The Crickett can not hold a candle to the Savage Rascal (have the Rascal, had the Crickett). Unlike the Crickett...the Rascal has a safety, feed ramp, real scope bases (avail. thru Savage), a much better trigger, and a better receiver sight. The regional mart (Bi-mart) has Rascal's for $139. jerry
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That Browning lever sure looks good, and while more expensive than the Henry, definitely has better quality - blued receiver instead of a painted cover, etc.
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Yeah, if I could swing it, I'd get the Browning lever gun.
So many of those cheap kiddy guns have terrible triggers, the last thing a young shooter needs. The BLR's I've handled have great triggers.
The Chipmunk I post on earlier had a terrible, very hard trigger. I was asked to work on it and helped it some. It's the design that makes the trigger so bad, not a lot that can be done. So, stay away from those cheaply made rifles with triggers that can't really be fixed.
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They are nice... to my eye anyway! here they run about $450 last i looked.
They've had them for awhile, was trying to talk my boy into getting one a couple of years ago (he has some gun money from selling some of 'his' older 22's). Answer was 'why? I can't see buying any guns as I can just shoot all of yours"!
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Is that Browning drilled for some scope bases? We find the 10/22's a little big for some of the younger Hunter Ed Crowd.
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I bought a Chipmunk for my son. My late father, chief engineer over 150 engineers and draftsmen and a gun designer came down on my ass. "That gun has a firing pin galling the bolt. It was designed by an amateur. Take it back"
My wife took it back.
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When I was a kid I had a Daisy made .22lr with a stock that adjusted to get longer as I grew. Too bad they don't make them anymore. Mine is still going after many tens of thousands of rounds, I use it as a snake gun. Here's a used one though. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=429161716
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The Daisy is not a $300 gun. I bought one used at a gun show for $55 when my son was 11. That was twenty years ago. today they should run $125-$150. K Mart closed the rifles out for $50 about 1990. I think Daisy did not have the right licenses for manufacturing rim fires and had to dump them.
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