spook
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I want to purchase a couple youth rifles for use by my grandchildren when they visit. I would appreciate any input as to the various rifles available. I like the Savage Cub due to the receiver sight but I am open to suggestions.
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Youth rifle
Winchester makes a "Ranger Youth Carbine" with a Model 70 action, a rather short bbl, and a shortened stock. IIRC, it comes in several cartridges. Came with iron sights, but we had a 'scope fitted.
Worked fine when my #1 son was just starting hunting. We got it for him in .243 Win. 'Course he grew, and had to have a full-sized stock put on it, but that was still his rifle of choice. It being a Model 70, there were a number of retro stocks available that fit it.
So, that is what worked for us.
Winchester makes a "Ranger Youth Carbine" with a Model 70 action, a rather short bbl, and a shortened stock. IIRC, it comes in several cartridges. Came with iron sights, but we had a 'scope fitted.
Worked fine when my #1 son was just starting hunting. We got it for him in .243 Win. 'Course he grew, and had to have a full-sized stock put on it, but that was still his rifle of choice. It being a Model 70, there were a number of retro stocks available that fit it.
So, that is what worked for us.
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spook said:
What will they be using them for, and how old are they? For plinking at tin cans with young kids, I really like the Taurus 62 youth model. It's a copy of the classic Winchester 62 slide action, i.e., the famous "gallery gun." The youth model comes with two butt stocks fitted to the receiver that are easily swapped in minutes. One has an adult size LOP, and the other is a shorty for the kids. Street price is around $240.
I also recently bought a Chipmunk .22 for my six year old son as his first rifle. It's a single shot bolt action that is scaled way down for really young kids.
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spook said:
The Henry Mini-Bolt is a great first rifle. Short, light, good sights, load 1 bullet at a time. I like the feel of the stock so much that my son ends up begging for it while I confirm that it's sighted in
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My grandkids are 6, 8 and 10. They'll be shooting shorts in the backyard at cans and long rifles on occasional trips to my gun club where the shooting is more formal. I like the idea of changeable stocks. Maybe I can ambush that damn armadillo that keeps tearing up my yard. Thanks for the input.
OK, then don't get the Taurus 62 - it won't feed shorts. Get a Henry pump, a levergun of some flavor (Marlin, Winchester, Henry, Browning), or a Remington fieldmaster 572 - these all feed shorts, IINM. Many turnbolts will too, but many won't, and I'm not sure which are which.
http://www.henryrepeating.com/ourrifles.cfm
http://www.marlinfirearms.com/firearms/leverAction22/Golden39A.htm
http://www.winchesterguns.com/prodinfo/catalog/category.asp?cat=004C
http://www.browning.com/products/catalog/firearms/detail.asp?value=005B&cat_id=024&type_id=100
http://www.remington.com/default
My Henry pumps feeds shorts and longs like a champ, and it's a hootenanny. It will NOT, however, feed super colibris - they are a funky round.
http://www.henryrepeating.com/pumpaction.cfm
Also, a real economy choice, which will feed all types, as well as encourage shot placement and ammo conservation, is a single shot break action, such as the Rossi Youth Combos:
http://www.rossiusa.com/products/gunselector-results.cfm?series=MYR
Oddly enough, it seems Rossi has dropped every chambering except for the .17 HMR, in the NON-combo (single gun) rimfire youth rifle. Weird.
Here's the NEF youth, which is american-made, AND comes in .22 s,l,lr - much better:
http://www.hr1871.com/firearms/index.php?cat=4&subcat=9#27
http://www.henryrepeating.com/ourrifles.cfm
http://www.marlinfirearms.com/firearms/leverAction22/Golden39A.htm
http://www.winchesterguns.com/prodinfo/catalog/category.asp?cat=004C
http://www.browning.com/products/catalog/firearms/detail.asp?value=005B&cat_id=024&type_id=100
http://www.remington.com/default
My Henry pumps feeds shorts and longs like a champ, and it's a hootenanny. It will NOT, however, feed super colibris - they are a funky round.
http://www.henryrepeating.com/pumpaction.cfm
Also, a real economy choice, which will feed all types, as well as encourage shot placement and ammo conservation, is a single shot break action, such as the Rossi Youth Combos:
http://www.rossiusa.com/products/gunselector-results.cfm?series=MYR
Oddly enough, it seems Rossi has dropped every chambering except for the .17 HMR, in the NON-combo (single gun) rimfire youth rifle. Weird.
Here's the NEF youth, which is american-made, AND comes in .22 s,l,lr - much better:
http://www.hr1871.com/firearms/index.php?cat=4&subcat=9#27
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Wow! What a goldmine of information. I'm going to buy two rifles and I think one will be a single shot and the other a repeater. I'll scratch my head for a few days over all these choices and order by the end of the week so they'll be here for Thanksgiving.
Consider the Marlin 15Y single shot bolt rifle; comes in blue and stainless. The only thing it lacks is a good aperture sight and that can be added. A friend of mine has 3 boys, the oldest about 12, and this Christmas it's time for a .22. He bought lunch a lot of times when I was a little short of cash, so I am bankrolling the affair.
One of the reasons I like the Marlin is that it's the same basic action as my Model 80C had when I got it in 1954. Picked up nice used ones for both of my kids so we have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of these guns. I figure that we need to support companies that do it right over so long a period of time.
One of the reasons I like the Marlin is that it's the same basic action as my Model 80C had when I got it in 1954. Picked up nice used ones for both of my kids so we have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of these guns. I figure that we need to support companies that do it right over so long a period of time.
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