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Re: WTB Youth Rifle
« Reply #30 on: December 06, 2016, 02:28:31 PM »
Just order online:

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/227695/hornady-custom-lite-ammunition-7mm-08-remington-120-grain-sst-box-of-20
  short of reloading this is about as good as it gets.  I've mentored youth hunters for going on a decade and I can tell you from more watching more than a dozen kills, a slowed down ballistic tip is VERY deadly.  They don't frag like they do at faster velocities and the expansion is almost more accubond like.
My nephew shoots this stuff and everything I have seem him hit was DRT. I believe @Pathfinder101 youngest son killed a deer at over 300 yds with reduced recoil rounds out of a .308.
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Re: WTB Youth Rifle
« Reply #31 on: December 06, 2016, 02:33:58 PM »
When PathfinderJR was 10, I got him a Marlin XS7Y (The Marlin XL7 in Youth Model) in a .308.  He hunted with it for a couple of years and shot it pretty well, then graduated up to a 7mm Mag when he was 12. 
This season he passed it down to his little brother (who is 9 and small for his age).  We sighted it in with Hornandy 125 gr Reduced Recoil SSTs and he shot it this summer.
This fall he killed this muley at 328 yards with a single shot. 
You used to see tons of Marlin XL7s at gun counters of sporting goods stores, but I noticed that in the last couple of years they have largely been replaced by the Ruger Americans.  A quick online search turned up a couple of new ones, so I assume they are still in production. :dunno:
I'll say this about those managed recoil loads... my 60 lb 9 year old can shoot a box of shells through his rifle and it doesn't bother him a bit. :tup:
  I personally like the Marlins more than the Ruger's but due to the availability of the ruger, it is what I recommend for folks. 
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Re: WTB Youth Rifle
« Reply #32 on: December 06, 2016, 04:30:30 PM »
When PathfinderJR was 10, I got him a Marlin XS7Y (The Marlin XL7 in Youth Model) in a .308.  He hunted with it for a couple of years and shot it pretty well, then graduated up to a 7mm Mag when he was 12. 
This season he passed it down to his little brother (who is 9 and small for his age).  We sighted it in with Hornandy 125 gr Reduced Recoil SSTs and he shot it this summer.
This fall he killed this muley at 328 yards with a single shot. 
You used to see tons of Marlin XL7s at gun counters of sporting goods stores, but I noticed that in the last couple of years they have largely been replaced by the Ruger Americans.  A quick online search turned up a couple of new ones, so I assume they are still in production. :dunno:
I'll say this about those managed recoil loads... my 60 lb 9 year old can shoot a box of shells through his rifle and it doesn't bother him a bit. :tup:
  I personally like the Marlins more than the Ruger's but due to the availability of the ruger, it is what I recommend for folks.

Just went to Gunbroker and punched in Marlin XS7Y.  Turned up several rifles in the $300 range.  At least one was NIB
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Re: WTB Youth Rifle
« Reply #33 on: December 06, 2016, 04:35:17 PM »
Just order online:

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/227695/hornady-custom-lite-ammunition-7mm-08-remington-120-grain-sst-box-of-20
  short of reloading this is about as good as it gets.  I've mentored youth hunters for going on a decade and I can tell you from more watching more than a dozen kills, a slowed down ballistic tip is VERY deadly.  They don't frag like they do at faster velocities and the expansion is almost more accubond like.
My nephew shoots this stuff and everything I have seem him hit was DRT. I believe @Pathfinder101 youngest son killed a deer at over 300 yds with reduced recoil rounds out of a .308.

328 yards.  125 Gr Hornandy Reduced Recoil.  Broke the offside shoulder and dropped in his tracks. :tup:
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Re: WTB Youth Rifle
« Reply #34 on: December 12, 2016, 10:43:07 AM »
don't know if you have found anything yet but I have a Savage11 in 7mm-08. I bought it for my son, but he never took to hunting. It's had maybe 50 rds through it. Super sweet trigger, low recoil and very accurate. It has a cheapo Bushnell 3-9x40 on it(it came with it). I paid $500 for it. I'd sell for $400 obo.
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Re: WTB Youth Rifle
« Reply #35 on: December 12, 2016, 11:36:36 AM »
don't know if you have found anything yet but I have a Savage11 in 7mm-08. I bought it for my son, but he never took to hunting. It's had maybe 50 rds through it. Super sweet trigger, low recoil and very accurate. It has a cheapo Bushnell 3-9x40 on it(it came with it). I paid $500 for it. I'd sell for $400 obo.

Just picked up a rifle this weekend, he will get it next weekend. Thank you though.
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Re: WTB Youth Rifle
« Reply #36 on: December 13, 2016, 04:29:44 PM »
don't know if you have found anything yet but I have a Savage11 in 7mm-08. I bought it for my son, but he never took to hunting. It's had maybe 50 rds through it. Super sweet trigger, low recoil and very accurate. It has a cheapo Bushnell 3-9x40 on it(it came with it). I paid $500 for it. I'd sell for $400 obo.

Just picked up a rifle this weekend, he will get it this weekend. Thank you though.

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Re: WTB Youth Rifle
« Reply #37 on: December 13, 2016, 04:32:39 PM »
don't know if you have found anything yet but I have a Savage11 in 7mm-08. I bought it for my son, but he never took to hunting. It's had maybe 50 rds through it. Super sweet trigger, low recoil and very accurate. It has a cheapo Bushnell 3-9x40 on it(it came with it). I paid $500 for it. I'd sell for $400 obo.

Just picked up a rifle this weekend, he will get it next weekend. Thank you though.



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Ruger American compact 7mm-08

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Re: WTB Youth Rifle
« Reply #38 on: December 13, 2016, 04:34:12 PM »
don't know if you have found anything yet but I have a Savage11 in 7mm-08. I bought it for my son, but he never took to hunting. It's had maybe 50 rds through it. Super sweet trigger, low recoil and very accurate. It has a cheapo Bushnell 3-9x40 on it(it came with it). I paid $500 for it. I'd sell for $400 obo.

Just picked up a rifle this weekend, he will get it next weekend. Thank you though.

Ruger American compact 7mm-08

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Cool!  Should be a happy little guy!
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Re: Youth Rifle
« Reply #39 on: December 18, 2016, 09:12:39 AM »
Very Happy kid, video came out to dark (working on it). For a new rifle he manage 3 inch groupings to start and it still needs dialed in a bit more. Forgot the mild recoil ammo at home but he did fine with the 140 grain Remingtons. He is super excited to get back out during winter break.





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Re: Youth Rifle
« Reply #40 on: December 18, 2016, 09:12:33 PM »
Very cool!  Looks like the gun fits him perfectly! :tup:
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Re: Youth Rifle
« Reply #41 on: December 18, 2016, 09:44:35 PM »
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