The savage has the youth stock, and the 22 is really small, shorter than a cricket. They seem to not have any trouble simply seeing thru the scope and getting on the target(by target i mean a square piece of cardboard sitting in the wide open). When we shot the 243 this past winter, on the last shot i had my 7yr old take a 100 yrd shot, and he was dead on the money. So i dont think the problem is just seeing thru the scope, its being able to find random targets in the scope. Last fall i had one of them out squirrel hunting and we had a chipmunk about 15 ft in front of us. With the little 22 he couldn't find it in the scope, could see it with his eye but not find it in the scope. They can see a squirrel in a tree, bring up the gun and then you can watch them searching all around the tree with the scope trying to find it. This is what i'm trying to correct.