Best .22LR for a 10 year old

[Eddie1965]

+1 for the Savage Cub, that's what my son shot on his 10th birthday.

[Ron-Solo]

The Crickett .22 Bolt Action, Tactical Sniper version. My 7 year old grandson loves it, and is very accurate with it.





At age 10, he might be a little big, but you can get adult stocks for them as they grow. The replacement stocks run about $30-40 from Keystone Sporting Arms, the makers of the Crickett.

[welchy]

Puts on Flame suit...

MY 2 cents from "Prehistoric days"...

To young for his own .22. A pellet/bb gun that only you control (locked up) a great starter. Help, teach and instill safe and responsible shooting skills with the BB gun. If he learns your safe and responsible shooting skills, a .22 at 12 years old would be appropriate. That's how I grew up, and worked great. I thank my Father to this day for the shooting skills he passed on to me. Your son will too.

Safe to take off flame suit ?..

I disagree that he is too young for a .22, but I agree that he should have a BB or pellet gun first. This is the best way to begin to teach proper skills.

That being said, I am getting my son either a Marlin 925 or 981T.

[Barry]

My daughter started off with the CZ452 Scout.


Comes with a loading platform making it a single shot. Later you can replace the platform with 5 or 10 rnd magazines.
Great rifle, nice and accurate.

My son started with a CM-2 Cadet

It will only ever be a single shot. Adjustable 2-stage trigger and fantastic accurate.

Now dont get me wrong, kids love to knock things down. Given the option they both grab my semi autos and plink away. But I believe bolt action rifles are better to teach young kids with and will outlast their childrens children.

Barry

[dangerranger]

when my boys were young, they were too small to hold up a full sized rifle till they were 13 or 14. they were mentaly up to it at 10yrs old. they just didnt have the arm strength. I got them a chipmunk at first, and they loved it but got bored with the single shot pretty quickly. next I found them a marlin papoose. its semi auto but has a short stock, 16" barrel, and only around 4lbs. it still gets shot when we get together. the chipmunk gets looked at but not shot often. the boys are aged 21 to 38 and now I have grand kids that want to shoot the marlin. your son probably wont have the same problems mine did but if you find him something he likes it will stay with him for life. DR

[scuds03]

When I was 10, I was killing ducks with a break action single shot 20ga youth shotgun. Not being a semi and being lightweight you felt all the recoil. If I could handle that at 10, a .22 should be no problemo.

[BlackJack]

wash hands after shooting and don't eat when shooting, and don't put the rounds in the mouth.

the other two things that just paranoid.

Oh man I remember when I was a kid I'd handle .177 and .22 pellets while eating burger and fries. I'm pretty sure those Crossman .177s were lead because they were soft and pewter colored. Back in the '70s there were no warnings on the pellet cans or I would have been more careful!

[MaHoTex]

Oh man I remember when I was a kid I'd handle .177 and .22 pellets while eating burger and fries. I'm pretty sure those Crossman .177s were lead because they were soft and pewter colored. Back in the '70s there were no warnings on the pellet cans or I would have been more careful!

Yes and I can remember chewing on them and squishing the pellets between my teeth.

Forgot all about that until reading your post. Explains a lot now.

[bombadillo]

Lever action Henry would be great, Marlin 60 is great but with the semi-auto, they tend to get shot much faster and not think about the trigger control or group. the Savage bolt action would be a great shooter, make him take his time, and are really accurate rifles out of the box.

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/36_62/products_id/24445

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/36_62/products_id/24976

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/36_62/products_id/25494

This last one may be a bit small so take that into consideration.

[ChaparralCommando]

+10 The CZs are great and he will be able to shoot it a LLLOOOOONNNNGGGGG time. Semi-Autos are not that great for children. I think its better to give them a bolt action with iron sights to start with.

I completely agree with this. The CZ scout sights can even be upgraded to match peep sights for crazy precision shooting, or even a scope later. The 452 is also upgradable to a Timney trigger and can take 5 and 10 rd magazines. It will be a rifle that will keep him content for a while.

[iFlyLow]

I would get the ruger 10/22!

[toby]

Thompson Center just came out with a scaled down version of the G2 or contender if you will it's a 22 lr and turners has them for $200 way cool little gun.

[axhoaxho]

For a 10 years old, checkout the Ruger Single Six. A single-action cowboy revolver, came with two cylinders (.22 LR and .22 Magnum), and a choice of blue or stainless steel.

The Single-Six is very nicely made, and will last many generations in your family.

Regards,

[Seesm]

Or build a ar style rifle in 5.56 and put a .22 kit in and when they get older they have a real rifle they can still plink with time to time... Btw you can load 1 bullet at a time in the mag so they learn to go slow... BEST IDEA in this thread yet... :P

[yoitsbruce]

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