figuring LOP for Junior Shooter

[hak]

Hi,

My new Hogue stock for my 10/22 showed up today and it's installed along with the Valq. trigger group, this frees up my original stock - i ordered my 10/22 with the cheapie plastic knowing i'd upgrade to the Hogue...

So my son is enjoying Air Rifle range time at our local IWLA chapter, and I thought I'd use the original 10/22 stock and original trigger group and build up a rifle for him, and part of that starts by shortening the stock.

He's the eldest of three children at 5+ years old now, so I see this shortened 10/22 getting use for years to come and this is a really cheap original stock, so no tears will be shed when i cut it down.

So the question at hand, for youth shooters, is there a sizing scale where one can figure a proper Length of Pull for a starter rifle based on arm length/age/height or something?

And I assume modifying the barrel is what requires a stamp vs. shortening a stock or are there legal ramifications to this type of change? (I'm in VA)

thanks!

 

[Kernel]

I worked for many, many, summers as a Certified Cub Scout BB Gun Instructor. Got the patch and everything. Hundreds of kids, every summer.

Some of these kids were only 3 or 4, because we would also let “walkalongs” shoot - they’re the Cub Scout’s younger siblings, boys and girls, under parent supervision, that also come to day camp.

Suffice to say, I don’t think it’s possible to get the stock LOP to short. We had a bunch of our BB guns modified to 9” LOP and the kids LOVED them.

Those same BB guns were also used by the oldest scouts, as old as 12, and some of those kids were pretty good sized.

IIRC keep the overall rifle length to 24" or longer, and the barrel to 16" or longer, and you're legal.

 

[P.B.Walsh]

Wait, I thought that the legal length was 26"?

 

[LemmyCaution]

Try this as a guide: