Funny story.I went this Saturday to start looking for a rifle for my 7 year old to use for this upcoming deer season(he will be 8).I went to a local store that has OVER 1200 guns IN STOCK and a rather large youth section.I spent about an hour looking over different makes,models,and calibers and I had narrowed it down to a New England .243 synthetic and a .308 Rossi wth a 20 gauge barrel with it.


Idecided to talk to my stepdad about the Rossi because I like the larger caliber for him but was skeptical of the Rossi because I wasn't real familiar with them.(I also like to buy American but realize it isn't always possible).He is an excellent gunsmith who has built many guns and even one from scratch.



I walked in and asked him about the Rossi and he kinda laughed and said ,I don't know but would you like to see one.He walked in the back room and brought out the exact model Rossi that I had looked at a few minutes earlier.He had gonethatmorning to do the same thing I did but he went ahead and bought the gun because he had already researched it and found it to be a solid gun for what we wanted.



We shot the gun Sunday and tomy surprise there was very little recoil from this gun and my small 7 year old had NO PROBLEMS shooting it off sand bags at 50 yards and it didn't hurt im at all.I was able to shoot a 1" group at 50 yards with a red dot scope that covered about a 4" circle of the target.



Anyone looking for an inexpesive gun with penty of kockdown power for a small youth,I highly reccomend this gun.