GeorgiaBob
Senior Member
Why would you buy a 12 year old "kid" a 6.5 or anything else chambered in a high powered rifle caliber? You even admitted at least one was "to big" for him.
I'm not knocking or judging to much- but I am curious.
Because kids grow up and growing kids adapt to use the tools they are familiar with. I gave my grandson a flintlock .50 cal long rifle for his 8th birthday. It was longer than he was tall and the only way he could shoot it standing was with a shooting stick. He is 10 now and still has some difficulty holding it unsupported when he fires it standing.
My grandson, at 10 years old, knows about how to load, aim, fire, clean, and store a flintlock rifle. He has used that knowledge to safely learn how to handle, shoot, clean and store a 30-06, a 12GA, an AR-15 in 5.56/.223 Wilde, a .22 rifle, a Navy .44 six shooter, and a 30-30 lever gun. He likes the 30-06, as long as he gets to shoot from a table, and is almost as accurate at 100 yards with the scoped 30-06 as he is with the flintlock!
I read somewhere that I should, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." I suspect that could apply to firearms training!