Thread: 6.5 Grendel advice for young shooter

I recently built up a howa mini Grendel, stockys carbon stock. Jefferson hinged floor plate. Overbarrel DPT and a 2-7 leupold(sub 6lb loaded.) Something that wouldn't make the dog go deaf, and something my kids could use. Originally, I was shooting 123grain bullets, but my then 8 year old boy wasn't super keen to shoot it due to the recoil. it felt 243esk being so short and light. I dropped down in bullet weight to the 100 grain ELD-VT(factory loading avaliable in the V-match range) going a modest 2600, and it really cut down on the recoil (I've shot deer at 300m with this load) My boys now 9 years old and aprox 26kg he now shoots milo tins confidently @150m. It feels very much like a 223 to shoot now.. The goal is to practice a little bit more on wallaby and then get him his first deer by the end of the year.




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