RE: Rifle For My Daughter
My daughter is also 10 and also petite. She looks like she should be in 2nd grade. Her sister was 14 when I first took her and bought a Rossi .243 youth rifle. The 10yr old has been wanting to go bad since her sister killed a deer when she was 14. I told her that she needed to shoot her sisters rifle. She was too afraid. Even after her sister shotit to show her it wasn't that bad,she wouldn't do it because the noise scared her and she was afraid of the recoil.
I took her out on the youth hunt anyway in some woods behind our house with my bow. She asked if she could take her bow and of course I said yes. She knew she wouldn't be able to shoot her bow anyway but it made all the difference to her just to be able to go and say she hunted with her bow.
We will see how it goes next year.
Good luck to you.