If I lost my legs I could not play football, not that I do but same with hunting. If you can not handly the reciol of an approprate rifle for what you are going to hunt don' t hunt it. Work up to handling the recoil and for a kid let them grow up and grow into it. I would rather tell a child that you got to wait a year or two to hunt deer then follow a blood trail that leads to nothing but heart ach for the child and a lost deer. What do you tell them, so what we will find another to shoot that one will wonder off and die in a few days and feed the coyotes?
Now lets change the picture alittle. Little Johnnie does not like the recoil of a .375 H&H. I know we will have him hunt Cape Buff with his .223 Remington. Hmmmm, good by little Johnnie