I can only wish someone had done the same for me at that age. Rather than handing me a cannon and saying you can handle it......yeah I handled it...and to this day if I dont really think the shot through I have a hell of a flinch and despise bigger caliber guns. Thats a very worthy project and hopefully things will work out well for ya. I still refuse to shoot anything over a 30-06...and I am 6'5.....I just hate recoil....dont matter what kind of gun...just dont shoot em any bigger.