I bought my son a 10/22 for Christmas last year. Unless you' ve got the target model the first thing you should do is have the trigger lightened. The stock trigger feels like it' s got a 10 pound pull. [:@] I put a Leupold 3X9X40 Vari-x II with the Leupold base and rings. He just shot it Saturday and was keeping consistant 2.5" groups at 40 yards. (He' s only 8 years old.) I haven' t had his trigger worked on yet for safety reasons but will probably get that done by the end of summer.