Awesome info and thx to everyone. I'll probably be handloading 140 gr Nosler AB's for him and put a limbsaver butt pad on it.

Do you think it's worth the "youth model"? I do plan on handing this down to my younger boys and eventually my wife. I was leaning on a non-youth model for as they get bigger, etc. Does the lighter weight increase recoil alot? I remember my .270 featherweight kicking horribly as a kid, but I was a "kid". I've only shot "normal" guns for years since.