Youth deer gun

[Jneal]

My boys (10 & 12) want me to take them hunting. I’ve hunted in my younger years but haven’t in probably 15 years. All I have are 12 gauge shotguns. What would be a good shotgun to trap shot and hunt with for a youth? Or would I be better off buying them a rifle they could handle easily? I really don’t want something they’ll outgrow as I’ve kept all my firearms over the years.

 

[jagee]

I started hunting when I was 15 with a 20g Remington 1100LT.

 

[Jneal]

That’s along the lines I was thinking. I’ve just never shot a 20g and didn’t know if it would be easier for them repeatedly shoot compared to a 12g.

 

[455 Beretta]

Yeah, 20 gauge. If you can find one with rifled slug barrel and smoothbore barrel, you can knock out multiple activities.

 

[Clay Pigeon]

This is what I bought my son years ago, I don't know why they say it now is available with adj buttstock, for this was the the reason I bouth it because it because of the adj LOP.
Money well spent, soft shooting with boxes of shells shooting clays to 3" steel with ducks and geese. I got him a cantilevered rifled barrel for deer and 10+ years later he still shoots it regularly.

https://www.remington.com/news/2009...rsions-model-11-87-sportsman-now-adjustable-0

 

[roscott]

My dad started me on a Remington 870 20g youth, which was and is a great gun.

While I didn’t outgrow it as a shotgun, as a deer gun I definitely wanted to move to a rifle when it became legal, as I suspect your boys will want to do. A bolt action in 300BLK is a great light recoiling deer rifle, or in 6.5 Grendel would also double as a longer range rifle, if they eventually want to get into that.

If you think they will be shooting trap or rabbit hunting much, a shotgun.

If it’s just deer and target shooting, a rifle.

Either way kudos to you for getting them into hunting, and also for not just handing them a 12ga!

 

[cg21]

Bought my daughter the youth .243 savage she will be using that next year (6) at our private 10 Acres.... for public land I’m still trying to track down a decent deal on a .357 lever..

she already has a .22 and also a youth 20g is in the works

 

[pitbulld45]

My son started hunting at 9 with a Mossberg 410, we had to get a youth stock to put on it.

 

[Crandall Crank]

Depends on how big they are and how they handle recoil. A 44 mag rifle would be a possiblity.

 

[Hookeye]

Depends on how big they are and how they handle recoil. A 44 mag rifle would be a possiblity.

If you don't reload and the magnums too much, could just use .44 specials.