You know if your a handloader, hodgson puts out some cool downloaded loads for young people. While at the range I was really impressed at some of them. The accuracy was good and recoil was nice. I think more than anything is the rifle fitting the individual. You can get a .243 that doesn' t fit the child and causes him problems.

I started out with a 243win and it didn' t fit me at all. Thinking back, that was my biggest obsacle.